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these items when Hong Kong's highly competitive Asian rivals obtained them, would be a sudden and unwarranted

form of discrimination, with adverse results for the territory's economy and stability.

c) Total American exclusion of Hong Kong would be both unjust and unnecessary as the colony is willing to exam- ine pragmatic solutions which would safeguard American domestic industry on sensitive products.

The political arguments are:-