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Your telegrams 763 and 771.
Norwegian Textile Negotiations.
We agree that the terms are the best that could be
obtained in the circumstances. The figures given have
been examined by the Board of Trade, on the basis of
which we would like to record the following comments:
(i) The Norwegian case on women's and girls' sweaters
is weak. Total production in the first half of this
year has levelled off in spite of a drop in exports and
substantial increase in imports from EFTA countries.
On the other hand imports from Hong Kong have increased
only very marginally and we understand that no evidence only
was produced by the Norwegians to show that there was
any connection between the small decline in Norwegian ad production and the very small increase in imports from
Hong Kong. We accept that imports from Hong Kong may
have been held down by the quotas in the first half of
this year, but in this connection we note that the
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