TNAG-0174-FCO40-210-Trade-with-Isle-of-ManChannel-Islands-1969 — Page 4

Our reference: CIM/67 170/11/5 Your reference: HKK 6/549/1

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Whitehall, LONDON S.W.1 Telex: 24986

Telephone: 01-930 8100, ext. 169

20th February 1969

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Dear Murray

Murray,

I write to confirm what I said on the telephone this afternoon about textile quota arrangements between Hong Kong and the Isle of Man.

The Board of Trade say that they are still looking into this question. Their provisional view is, however, that exports of cotton textiles from Hong Kong to the Isle of Man do count as part of their quota to the United Kingdom. You mentioned that this was also the view of the Hong Kong Government and that, in any case, the Hong Kong Government will not wish to pass on this provisional view to the Isle of Man Government. You may wish to tell the Hong Kong Government merely that they can continue to act on the assumption that exports to the Isle of Man must be debited from the quota balance.

The Board of Trade explained that the quota arrangements operate under a G.A.T.T. document of 1963 called the Long Term Arrangement Regarding International Trade in Cotton Textiles. It may be necessary, in due course, to ascertain whether this arrangement is legally binding on the Isle of Man.

I have sent a copy of this letter to Miss Rae at the Board of Trade.

Yours sincerely,

J.E. Hayzelden

(J. E. HAYZELDEN)

I. R. Murray Esq.

Hong Kong Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office LONDON S.W.1