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IMMEDIATE GOVERNOR HONG KONG

TILEGRAM NUMBER &59

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18 DECEMBER 1970

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APPRESSED TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TELNO 859 OF 13

TECEMBER 1978

4REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO TOKYO WASHINGTON UKDEL BRUSSELS UKMIS GENEVA (FOR JONES) BRUSSELS (FÜR DODGE)

YOUR TELEGRA'S NUMBER 818.

GENERALISED PREFERENCES,

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1 AGREE STEPS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO OPEN A DIALOGUE WITH THE JAPANESE -

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

2. I AM CONCERNED, HOWEVER, THAT IN SUGGESTING CONDITIONAL

INCLUSION WE SHOULD NOT BE TOO SPECIFIC AT THIS STAGE. THE POINT

IS THAT TEXTILES OCCUPY A LESS SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN OUR EXPORTS TO

JAPAN THAN THEY DO IN THOSE TO THE U.S. OR THE E.E.C. AND SO

A SPECIFIC SUGGESTION THAT THIS BROAD GROUP OF PRODUCTS DE EXCLUDED MIGHT BE AT THE SAME TIME, BOTH TOO LITTLE AND TOO MUCH. TEXTILES REPRESENTED 13.3% OF OUR TOTAL DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO JAPAN IN 1969 COMPARED WITH 39.7 AND 61.45 TO THE U.S. AND THE E.E.C. RESPECTIVELY. IN THE SAME YEAR, WE HAD ONLY 5.6% OF JAPANESE IMPORTS GF TEXTILES (OTHER THAN SILK) WHILE SOUTH KOREA HAD 6.2¢ AND TAIWAN 6$.

3. AS REGARDS FOOTWEAR, 1969 EXPORTS TO JAPAH WERE WORTH

ANG KONG DOLLARS 1.2 MILLION WHICH REPRESENTED 0.3% OF TOTAL DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO JAPAN. THE COMPARABLE F.E.C. FIGURES WERE

HONG KONG DOLLARS 59 MILLION REPRESENTING 5.4%

IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES, COULD THE EMBASSY PLEASE BE INSTRUCTED

SHPLY TO MAKE THE POINT RECARDING PROBABLE CONDITIONAL INCLUSION OF NING KORG BY THE EE CAND, CONSEQUENTLY, BY THE U.S.

TH SUGGESTING.... /