TNAG-0162-FCO40-198-Export-of-textiles-to-Norway-and-Sweden-1969 — Page 89

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4.

As you will have noted from the specimen Export Authorisation

forms, application for an Export Licence for the particular goods in

respect of which an Export Authorisation is issued must be made before

the expiry of the Export Authorisation.

be valid for a period of three months.

Export Authorisations will

Export Licences are valid for

only twenty-eight days. The actual goods must therefore be exported

within four months from the issue of the Export Authorisation.

5.

I now formally propose that

(a) the Commerce and Industry Department of the

(b)

Hong Kong Government should regulate exports

of the items concerned by means of an export

authorisation system;

the Department should forward to the Norwegian

Government fortnightly returns showing, by item

and with as much detail as is practical within

each item, the quantities covered by Export

Authorisations issued to Hong Kong exporters.

The Hong Kong Government will, on request by the Norwegian

Government at any time, discontinue the issue of Export Authorisations

for any of the items concerned or for any part of them. If such

request is accompanied by a request for consultations in accordance with

the provisions of Article 3 of the Cotton Textiles Arrangement, the

Hong Kong Government will, pending the holding of such consultations,

issue Export Licences for the items concerned only in respect of those

shipments covered by Export Authorisations already issued.

7.

It is, as the Hong Kong Delegation explained, an essential

part of the system that the importing country should undertake to

admit imports of all goods covered by Export Authorisations issued

before the time at which the importing country requests that such

issue be discontinued.

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