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Draft reply to despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, C.H.KEMMIS.

September 1968

S/STEWART.

.SELLERS.

I have the honour to refer to your despatch (CR 12/5401/62-V)

of September 27 about exports of wide sheeting and sheets to the United Kingdom. As I have informed you in my telegram No. 1580,

the revised quota levels set out in the enclosure to your despatch are in accordance with our understanding. I regret very much that

it should have taken so long to confirm this in a substantive reply,

but I hope that my telegram was in time to allow quotas in

accordance with the new arrangements to be allocated so as not

to interfere with the normal processes of trade.

2. I shall be in touch with your London Office her about the

signature of a Memorandum of understanding, and I have noted your

suggestion that this should follow the lines of Enclosure I to your

despatch. I ought to say however, that it may not be possible to

adopt precisely that formula of introduction to the Memorandum which

you proрове.

3. I regret that you should have received so strong an impression

that the Board of Trade, acting on behalf of Her Majesty's Government,

initiated and conducted these negotiations in a demanding spirit

of disregard for the existing Heads of Agreement.

assure you that this was not the intention.

I must at once

Indeed there was

reference in the first sentence of the Board of Trade's Aide

Memoire of the 9th August to the possibility that "Her Majesty's Government might wish to ask the Government of Hong Kong to impose

Likewise in the final sentence of the

restrictions..

/same Aide