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the relatively poor Hong Kong shipment performance in 1969, Hong Kong could not allow paragraph 7 of Saving Despatch No. 712 to
go unchallenged because of the point of principle involved. Wilford had no recollection of any correspondence or discussions, but would look into the matter.
Swedish Textile Negotiations - April 1970
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Ila informed Wilford of Hong Kong'n intention to nook combined limita for any collon and non-cotton itom whore rontridant of both was unavoidablo. Hong Kong had proviously rofused to mix those restraints in order to give tho Amoricang no oncourngomont. Since 1968 the Canadians had obtained combined limits from Taiwan and Singapore. Recently the 1969 Canada/Japan arrangemonts were published in the Canadian Commons and these showed that the Japanese enjoyed a wide measure of swing between cotton and non- cotton restraints. These links between cotton and non-cotton restraints have had no effect on the U.S. drive for non-cotton restraints. With the Japan/Canada agreement, there was now clearly no longer any doctrinal ground on which Hong Kong should forego this important commercial advantage in any future restraint undertakings. Furthermore, the Textile Advisory Board had already raised the question of rolling-in the restraint limits for cotton and non-cotton shirts to Sweden in 1969, but members readily accepted the Department's explanation of the line we were trying to hold and did not press the matter. There was no case for suggesting any further sacrifice to them in 1970. Wilford noted the explanation.
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(E.P. Ho) D.D.C.R. 16.4.70
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