TNAG-0249-FCO40-285-Effect-of-entry-of-UK-into-EEC-on-exports-from-Hong-Kong-1970 — Page 47

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European Integration Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London S.W.1

5 October, 1970.

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Hong Kong : E.E.C.

I attach a copy of a letter to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from the President of the Chinese Manufacturers Association of Hong Kong. Mr. Rippon has asked for a considered reply and I attach a draft. I should be grateful for your comments and those of other recipients of this letter by close of play on Thursday, 8 October.

I realize that we are hampered by the absence so far of any official records of Mr. Rippon's talks in Hong Kong, but I think a reply to Dr. Chuang cannot be delayed any longer.

(M. A. Pakenham)

J. B. Ingram, Esq.,

C.R.E. 3/3, Board of Trade,

1 Victoria Street,

London S.W. 1.

Copy to

A.J. Mantle Esq., Min Tech.

J.C. Sloman Esq., Commodities Department, G.F. Kinnear Esq., Hong Kong Department, M.J. Balfour Esq., Bank of England, Dr. R. Rostowski, O.D.M.

CONFIDENTIAL

(118281) Dd. 391599 1,500M 2/69 Hw.

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