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Paragraph 9
Rewrite last two lines to read "
although producers of one or two types
of garment may be experiency difficulties".
Paragraph 9(a)
Add a new paragraph "The pressure by the USA for comprehensive restraints
on non-cotton textiles has now reached the point where it threatens to lead to
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more general restraints by the USA on imports which might in turn lead to a
general reversal of the relatively liberal trading policies the Free World has
pursued, under the GATT, since the Wer. The USA has recently agreed to join in
talks with the UK, EEC and the Japanese to consider the whole problem".
Paragraph 10
Add at end "It has, however, to be recognised that whereas on cottons Hong
Kong is operating independently within the framework of an international policy
subscribed to by the UK also, the position on non-cotton textiles is likely to
be the opposite of that".
Paragraph 11
Replace first few lines by "What, however, we want in principle to achieve
is the situation, if possible, in which (i) the Hong Kong Government could reach
such agreements on non-cotton textiles as they wished with other Governments,
provided that they confined themselves to goods in which the importing country
could claim some degree of injury; and". (The bracketed passage is made particularly
necessary if the submission proceeds at this stage; but on this, see the
Covering letter.) On next page, rewrite last sentence but two to read "we cannot,
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except for the most cogent of reasons, afford..... follow from our consistently
forcing.....".
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