TNAG-0162-FCO40-198-Export-of-textiles-to-Norway-and-Sweden-1969 — Page 127

HKK 6/531/1

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2 January 1969

In the course of our meeting with Mr. Jordan we promised to send you copies of the letters in which the Hong Kong Government recorded their agreements in

I endose these July 1968 with the Swedish Government; copies now. You will see that the system of export authorisation which we discussed at our meeting, was in fact instituted for 12 months from the 1 July 1968. think when the text of this letter was checked at the meeting, we concentrated on the latter paragraphs and missed the fact that a time limit was set in the first paragraphs.

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(H. H. Stewart) Hong Kong Department

0. H. Kemmis, Esq.,

Board of Trade

Victoria Street,

London S.W.1.

Copy to: S. Stewart, Esq.,

Board of Trade.

Copy to: J. E. Gowers, Board of Trade.

(You were enquiring about the status of these document:

I do not know whether

and I promised to let you have copies. they are legally, sound, but they certainly purport to be agreements between the Governments of Sweden and Hong Kong).

Copy to: H. Collings, Esq.

Commodities and Oil Department, F.C.O.

(These are copies of letters which constitute the

agreement between Swedish and Hong Kong Governments which the Swedes are now invoking against Hong Kong.)