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Hong Kong rests with FIG, and must be taken

in the context of our overall negotiating

position and tactics. While we shall be

discussing Hong Kong's relations to our

negotiations, Hong Kong officials will also

take this opportunity to discuss with their

British counterparts other subjects of

mutual interest on which fuller briefing has

been prepared elsewhe re These latter points

are only touched on in this brief.

1961/3 Negotiations

3. No provisional agreement had been reached

before the previous round of negotiations

ended. The Six rejected the original British

proposal that Hong Kong should be associated

with the enlarged community under Part IV

of the Treaty of Rome. They did not consider

that association was appropriate for a

dependent territory with well developed

manufacturing industries.

The British

proposal on the table at the end of the nego-

tiations contained the following elements:

(a)

special arrangements for cotton textiles;

(2) the same decalage for other manufactured

goods es arranged for the Asian common-

wealth;

(c) provision for periodic reviews to

isclate and examine problems in Hong

Kong's trade relations with the enlarged Community arising out of Britain's entry.

A further British proposal that, if these

/reviews

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