TNAG-0144-FCO40-180-Exports-of-textiles-to-United-States-of-America-1969 — Page 145

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But notning so wide-ranging or eo potentially damaging to Hong Kong as toe U.S. is now proposing has yet been put into effect.

To do feil, therefore, that we are entitled to ask for detailed statistical evidence, category by category, shoring the extent to which imports of non-cotton textiles from Hong Kong have really had a genuinely disruptive effect in the United States market. Unless convincing evidence can be produced, such wide-ranging action as the United States is suggesting coul. casily have mos t serious economic and therefore political consequences in Hong Kong to the grave detriment of all the interests in the Far East of both Britain and the United States.