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Cotton Textile Agreement with EEC.

You asked for paters about negotiations between Hong Kong and the EEC over renewal of LTA agreement.

Instead of negotiating with individual meuchers of EEC, Hong Kong hors has to negotiati with the eel, This has been going on. Since January with Hong Kong trying to insist on proper statistics being supplied by ECC which Crust's no pilfsved

to do.

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Details of negotiations with 30 July are at (76). at is intwishing to see that France is offering to take even less than before from Hong Kong,

9t looks as though Hong Kong will not be able to misist on ligid adherance E GATT principales but will have to negotiate wilt the EEC on the latter's terms.

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