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Mr. Bottomley Botto

Consultations with Hong Kong

I am enclosing your copy of a Note amending in certain

respects the arrangements for these talks.

2. Subject to confirmation when the Hong Kong delegation arrive provisional arrangements have been made for the meeting in your room at 11.15 a.m. on Wednesday 25 November for the

discussion on the US Trade Bill and the US/Japan textile

talks. The experts on these subjects are in Division 5 of Commercial Relations and Exports of the Department of Trade and Industry and they will send a representative to the meeting, probably Mr. Inglefield (Mr. Nicoll, the Head of the Department, will be in North America at the time). A state-

ment of the up-to-date position will be prepared by the

DTI next Tuesday. A note-taker will be available.

3. I have told Mr. Sellers of the Hong Kong Government Office what we have in mind and he thinks that the Hong Kong

representatives would probably be Sir John Cowperthwaite,

Mr. Cater and Mr. Jones.

Zani

Lania

E. 0. Laird

Hong Kong Department

20 November, 1970.

М. Кійне

No beard

Thank you.

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Sir C O'Neill

Mr. Ford

Mr. Gallagher

Mr. Statham

Mr. Brind

Mr. Britten

Mr. Heath

Mr. Nicoll, Department of Trade & Industry

Sir L. Monson

Mr. Wilford

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