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CYPHER CAT A

PRIORITY PARIS

TELEGRAM NUMBER 381

CONFIDENTIAL [NEUTRAL]

CONFIDENTIAL

os Fila

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TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

18 APRIL 1969

ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TELEGRAM NUMBER

381 OF 18 APRIL 1969 RFI TO UKMIS GENEVA BERNE BONN ROME PARIS UKDEL EEC BRUSSELS BRUSSELS THE HAGUE TOKYO WASHINGTON AND SAVING

TO HONG KONG

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YOUR TELEGRAM 310: TO BONN.

MR. STANS AND TEXTILES

MINISTER (E) GAVE AN ACCOUNT OF THE U.K. POSITION TO BRUNET OF THE QUAI D'ORSAY THIS AFTERNOON. BRUNET SAID THAT A DEFINITION

OF THE FRENCH POSITION HAD BEEN REACHED AT AN INTER-DEPARTMENTAL

MEETING THAT MORNING AND THIS WAS VERY CLOSE TO OUR OWN. HE ADDED

THAT IN EXAMING THE PROBLEM OF IMPORTS OF NON-COTTON TEXTILES

INTO THE U.S.A., THE FRENCH HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT

IMPORTS WERE HEAVIEST FROM MANY OF THE EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES WHERE

U.S. FIRMS THEMSELVES HAD MADE SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENTS IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY.

2.

BRUNET HAS PROMISED TO LET US HAVE AN ACCOUNT OF THE OUTCOME

OF THE FRENCH DISCUSSIONS WITH MR.STANS.

FCO PLEASE PASS TO UKMIS GENEVA BERNE BONN ROME UKDEL EEC BRUSSELS

BRUSSELS THE HAGUE TOKYO WASHINGTON AND SAVING TO HONG KONG

MR SOAMES

[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]

INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION

COMMODITIES DEPT.

T.P.D. H.K.D.

CONFIDENTIAL

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No.51. 22 APR 1969

111K16/204/1

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