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(ii) to safeguard, as far as we can, the

trading position of Hong Kong (some

50 per cent of whose total exports

are textiles); and

(iii) if, despite our efforts, further

restraints are placed on non-cotton

textile exports, to avoid diversion

of such exports to the United Kingdom,

which already takes a higher

proportion of developing countries'

textile exports than most developed

countries.

Commodities Department.

29 May 1970.

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