TNAG-0151-FCO40-187-Exports-of-cotton-textiles-to-Canada-1969 — Page 113

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CYPHER/CAT.A

PRIORITY HONG KONG

TELNO. M149

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TO OTTAWA

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24 APRIL, 1969

[NEUTRAL]

ADDRESSED TO OTTAWA TELNO. M149 OF 24 APRIL.

FOR GRAY FROM MILLS.

CANADIAN CUSTOMS VALUATION OF CLOTHING.

تشار

YOUR TELEGRAMS NOS 35 AND 38 AND M IP T.

> IN

No.01

25 APR 19.9

HKX6/391/1

FURTHER TO MY TELEGRAMS NOS. M135 AND M147 AND DORWARD'S LETTER

OF 11 APRIL WE WERE VISITED YESTERDAY (22ND) BY HIND,

(22ND) BY HIND, ASSISTANT

DEPUTY MINISTER D.N.R. AND MILLMAN CUSTOMS ATTACHE WHO WERE

LAST WEEK CONFERENCING IN TOKYO AND HAD BEEN TOLD BY BENSON

TO

COME HERE TO ''SORT OUT THE PROBLEM '' HIND APPEARS SYMPATHETIC

BUT CLAIMS D N R HAS ACTED STRICTLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE

CUSTOMS ACT SEMICOLON MILLMAN WAS IMPASSIVE UNTIL SURPRISED

AT LEARNING THAT VALUATIONS HAD BEEN MADE IN RESPECT OF HONG

KONG COMPANIES HE DID NOT VISIT PERSONALLY IN 1968.

2.

WE WORKED OVER SOME COSTINGS FOR HONG KONG DOMESTIC SALES

WHICH SHOWED A LOWER THAN 45% MARK-UP ON PRODUCTION COSTS AND

HAVE PERSUADED MILLMAN (HIND CANNOT STAY) TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK

AT CUSTINGS FOR DIFFERENT SECTORS OF OUR GARMENT INDUSTRY

THAT SECTOR KNITTING COTTON AND WOOL GARMENTS AND THAT SECTOR

MAKING UP GARMENTS FROM WOVEN FABRICS, COTTON, M.M.F., AND

MIXES. WE HAD FIXED SOME APPOINTMENTS FOR HIM BEFORE RECEIPT

"

AND HAVE NOW INFORMALLY ADVISED LOCAL COMPANIES TO STALL UNTIL

STITT GETS HERE,

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