TNAG-0240-FCO40-276-Entitlement-of-Hong-Kong-to-generalised-tariffs-preferences--1970 — Page 153

Confidential

Dear Roy,

Hong Kong

EIS

Enth

Mr Kinyar

LAKDA

(922)

$5(ii) is a good point.

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United Kingdom Delegation to 12xi

the European Communities,

52 avenue des arts,

1040 Brussels.

6 November, 1970. cc. Mr. Perceval TPD

Evi

17xi

Mr. Kinnear

MKD

Mr. Shman

Commod.D.

I

When I saw Tran in the Commission on 3 November, we discussed the way thing were going on Hong Kong. enclose a record of this. I think we can assume that the ideas aired by Tran will come up again at your informal meeting with di Martino and Tran, which has

I would expect been arranged for 11.30 on 11 November. them to try to get some informal reaction on such points as the proposed exclusion of textiles and shoes, the idea of voluntary export control, the relationship of all this with Part IV of the Treaty, and the adaptations to be made when the Community itself is enlarged.

2. I am only copying this letter to John Robinson and leave it to you to decide whether it should be given any further distribution.

G.R. Denman, Esq., C.M.G.,

Department of Trade and Industry.

Copy to:

J.A. Robinson, Esq., C.M.G.,

F.C.O.

Thin Wes

(D. H. A. Hannay)

This is all very

different

to

Jones'

ниный

920

report covered by Mir

Britten's minute of

11 November