TNAG-0165-FCO40-201-Export-of-textiles-to-Norway-and-Sweden-1969 — Page 211

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fer n.b. wollen knitwear and v.g, anoraks, the

level at 31/3/69 would be the trigger point: the

Swedes night come back that it was that at 31/1/69

or even 15/1/69.

(4) The range of possible levels are i

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B/A

31/3/69

642

E/A

15/3/69

612

B/A

28/2/69

550

Exports 1968

540

Imports 1968

536

TAXTAB will accept 540 (but this was based on the

original 1960 export figure of (62) and nothin polyester fatin sluités

Polyester/Cotton Press Shirts

(a) The Swolish offer, based on imparts for y1/«

30/11/68 is 558.

(b) At that time you had pointed out to the Swedish

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team that the appropriate roll-back period was the

calendar year 1968, when the 3wedish import figure

was 622 and the Hong Kong export figure me 742.

If Hong Kong were to conende restraint on these

the

shirts, the level proposed was unacceptable for the

following reasons

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(1) at Geneva Hong Kong had given the Swedish

delegation the estimate of likely importa

Hong Kong in 1962 at 646 which was

obviously considered tolerable by them at