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PRIORITY U.K. MISSION GENEVA TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
PRIORITY U.K. MISSION GENEVA TELNO 18 TO HONG KONG 1 MAY 1969
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ADDRESSED TO HONG KONG TELEGRAM NUMBER 18 OF MAY 1 RFI
F C O AND OTTAWA.
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RECEIVED IN
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- 2 MAY 1969
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MY TELEGRAM NUMBER 17 CANADA/HONG KONG PROBLEMS.
FROM JONES.
+KK 6/33/11
1 DISCUSSED SITUATION FOR TWO HOURS WITH MACPHERSON TODAY.
ATMOSPHERE WAS GOOD AND HE DENIED ANY DETERIORATION IN RELATIONS.
IN HIS VIEW THE TROUBLE WAS THAT A LOT OF PROBLEMS HAD ARISEN
AT ONCE AND SOME OF THEM HAD BEEN HANDLED BADLY FROM
CANADIAN END.
2. MACPHERSON SAID THERE WAS, IN GOVERNMENT EYES, NO DIRECT LINK BETWEEN CUSTOMS VALUATION PROBLEM AND TEXTILE PROBLEMS.
HE ADMITTED THE FORMER DID RESULT FROM PRESSURE FROM TEXTILE
INDUSTRY BUT IT WAS NOT AIMED PRINCIPALLY AT HONG KONG. HE
CONSIDERED THAT D N R OFFICIALS HAD BEHAVED CLUMSILY AND
DISCOURTEOUSLY BUT HONG KONG SHOULD USE ALL THE LAYERS OF APPEAL
PROVIDED AND SHOULD TAKE ADVICE OF STITT WHO WAS BEST MAN AVAI-
LABLE''.
3. ON TEXTILE QUESTIONS OUTCOME WAS A S FOLLOWS:
(A) ON CABINET TOWELS AND TOWELLING AND TWO TRIGGER POINT TOWELS (I MENTIONED JACQUARD) MACPHERSON SEEMED TO TAKE POINT THAT
THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE CONSULTATIONS. ON FORMER I UNDERLINED
THAT CANADIANS WOULD BE VERY MUCH DEMANDEURS AS HONG KONG
HAD KEPT TO THE RULES.
(B) ON THIRD COUNTRY TRADE HE SAID CANADIANS WERE CONSIDERING
MEANS OF DEALING WITH IT AND MENTIONED BACK TO BACK LICENSING.
I REPLIED YOU WOULD PROBABLY BE WILLING TO CONSIDER THAT.
HIS MAIN WORRY WAS NOT HONG KONG BUT, E G, KOREA SHIPPING
THROUGH HONG KONG. I SAID THAT WAS A PROBLEM WITH KOREANS
AND YOU COULD DO NOTHING TO HELP.
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