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at the December 1969 meeting of the CTC in the Exporters' Group, Hong Kong was represented as "Hong Kong" and not as "UK".

So although, as I have indicated above, Mr. Dunnett is probably correct in legal terms, the practical position is closer to the perhaps rather loose wording used in your telegram no. 451 and in HE's letter of 23 December to Mr. Goldsmith. My summing up is that, although Hong Kong is not de jure a separate participant in the LTA, for all practical purposes of the Arrangement she is treated de facto as if she is a separate participant. A lot of this is probably rather nit picking but I do not consider it unimportant. The main point

is that however things have been done they have worked reasonably well for the last eight or nine

years.

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