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PERFORMANCE IN 90.28A, 16 MM. CINE CAMERAS. UNIME VIMER MAND JAPAN ACCOUNTED FOR 51.4% (1ST), 76.85 (1ST), 24.1% (2ND) AND 2.3% (3RD) RESPECTIVELY OF THE OVERALL IMPORT MARKET. THE PROPOSED EXCLUSION ON ORIGIN GROUNDS SEEMS TO BE BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION

THAT, UNDER THE EXISTING E.E.C. ORIGIN RULES, SUCH HONG KONG PRODUCTS WOULD NOT QUALIFY BEING MERELY ASSEMBLED FROM IMPORTED, MAINLY JAPANESE, PARTS. WHILST THIS MAY BE TRUE IN THE CASE

CF T.V. RECEIVERS SOME OF OUR RADIOS MIGHT QUALIFY ON A HONG KONG

CONTENT BASIS WHILST OTHERS WOULD NOT.

GROUP 4

THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY FIXED PATTERN EEHIND THE SELECTION OF THE ITEMS PARTICULARLY AS HONG KONG'S SHARE OF THE IMPORT MARKET, BOTH OVERALL AND FROM L.D.C.S VARIES WIDELY. GROUP 5 (PARAGRAPH 5 OF CODEL BRUSSELS TELEGRAM 229)

7. HONG KONG IS PRINCIPAL UNDERLINE NEXT WORD L.D.C. SUPPLIER THROUGHOUT (EXCEPT FOR 66.03, PARTS OF UMBRELLAS) AND, EXCEPT FCR 85.21, TRANSISTORS, ACCOUNTS FOR WELL OVER 20% OF L.D.C. IMPORTS IN EACH CASE. IN NO INSTANCE IS HONG KONG A PRINCIPAL

UNDERLINE NEXT WORD OVERALL SUPPLIER TO THE E.E.C.: AND THE SAME ARGUMENTS AS IN GROUP 2 ABOVE AGAINST ACCEPTING A LOW

CUT-OFF POINT APPLY.

S. THIS BRIEF ANALYSIS IS BEING SENT TO YOU ONLY FOR THE PRESENT.

WE CAN OBVIOUSLY NOT REACT FORMALLY UNTIL WE RECEIVE A FORMAL

APPROACH FROM THE E.E.C., BUT YOU MAY FIND THIS MATERIAL USEFUL

TO ILLUSTRATE THE E.E.C. ATTITUDE AND THE DANGERS OF SUGGESTING

BROAD BAND EXCLUSION.

(FCO PLEASE PASS PRIORITY TO HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON)

SIR H. NORMAN-WALKER

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то

HONG

KONG

GOVERNMENT

OFFICE).

INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION

E.I.D.

H.K.D. T.P.D.

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