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TELEGRAM NUMBER 296

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CONFIDENTIAL ADDRESSED F C O TELLO 296 OF 10 APRIL BLAS UKMIS GENEVA (FOR JONES) WASHINGTON (FOR HERMAN) wpray (FOR PURVES AND HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON.

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1 VOULD BE GRATEFUL, PARTICULARLY IN VIEW OF STANS PROPOSED VISIT TO HONG KONG, IF SELLERS COULD AS FAR AS POSSIBLE BE INCLUDED IN TALKS ON TEXTILES DURING STANS' VISIT TO LONDON.

THE HONG KONG VIEW OF THE CURRENT SITUATION APPEARS TO BE AT ONE WITH YOURS. THAT IS TO SAY, WE REMAIN OPPOSED TO AN EXTENSION OF RESTRAINTS TO MAN-HADE FIBRES AND WOOL MIETHER

VOLUNTARY OR UNDER A MULTILATERAL ARRANGEMENT SEMICOLON THE ONLY QUALIFICATION BEING THAT IN SITUATIONS COMPARABLE TO THOSE

WHICH AROSE WITH SWEDEN AND NORWAY IN 1968, AND GERMANY AND CANADA EARLIER, WE ARE ALWAYS PREPARED TO CONSIDER, ON AN ITEM BY ITE", FIBRE BY FIBRE DAGIS, ANY CASE MADE PY ONE OF OUR TRADING PARTNERS TO THE EFFECT THAT SERIOUS AND DEMONSTRABLE

DAMAGE IS BEING CAUSED TO DOMESTIC PRODUCERS LY IMPORTS FROM HONG KON I DO NOT CONSIDER THIS PESERVATION, WHICH IT WOULD BE EMPTY TO DENY, AT ALL DAMAGING TO OUR OPPOSITION TO THE U.S. PROPOSALS. EVED IN KAITTED WOOLLEN CUTERWEAR, WHERE HONG KONG HAS ENJOYED 44 PERCENT OF THE U.S. IMPORT MARKET FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, I SEE NO CHANCE OF ANY SECTOR OF TRADE PRODUCING FIGURES FOR U.5. DOMESTIC PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION WHICH WOULD MATCH UP TO THE CELCHMARKS ESTABLISHED IN THE CASES WHERE WE HAVE CONCEDED RESTRAINT TO OTHERS.