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of action producing any result that would be useful to Hong Kong in either of these two contexts seems at present rather remote. No progress has yet been made in resolving the deadlock in which the New Zealand proposal ended at the November Session of the GATT. Progress in the Industrial Products Committee also gives every prospect of being very slow. However, Hong Kong's noti cation of the French restrictions as non-tariff barriers will have to be taken notice of eventually by the Industrial Products Committee, and this should be sufficient to show the French that there is some substance in any veiled reference which Hong Kong might be moved to make to the possibility of Her Majesty's Govern- ment, taking up in the GATT the restrictions which the French apply to Hong Kong.

W. Carter, Esq., C.V.O.,

Room 246,

Foreign & Commonwealth Office,

King Charles Street,

S.W.1.

Copied to: Mr. Toms

(CRE 2)

Mr. Tippetts

(CRE 3)

Mr. Kemmis

(CRE 1)

Mr. Stewart

(1.1.)

yours

cran

Denzil

(D.I. Dunnett)

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