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DRAFT LETTER
To: J. Cater, Esq.,
Director,
Commerce & Industry Department,
Fire Brigade Bld.,
HONG KONG.
...In Confidence
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Exports of Hong Kong Cotton Textiles
to the United Kingdom in 1971
We are approaching the end of the period
covered by the 1966-70 Heads of Agreement and it
therefore becomes necessary to consider the
arrangements which will operate next year until
the introduction of the tariff on Commonwealth
cotton textile imports on 1 January, 1972. You
are, of course, fully aware of the background to
HMG's decision to abandon quantitative restrictions
on imports of cotton textiles from the end of 1971
and to introduce instead a tariff.
2.
We wish to extend the present quota controls
for the period to the end of 1971, with an allowance
to the restricted suppliers, including Hong Kong, of
a further 1% growth. Under the Heads of Agreement
a footnote to paragraph C states that if the growth
of United Kingdom domestic consumption of cotton
textile goods were to increase markedly in excess
of the expected rate, we would undertake to consider
the possibility of allowing an increased growth
to all restricted suppliers. No growth in
consumption has in fact taken place, not even the
modest amount we expected and which led us to offer
the 1% annual growth in the quotas. (In 1964 our
apparent consumption of woven cotton cloth and
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