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limitations of the quantity of her

exports which can benefit;

(iv) Above all, the most important action

we should taku is to try to provent

the Common Commercial Policy developing

in such a way as to impose discriminatory

quotas against Hong Kong; we should seek

to achieve this by proposing that we

should begin fairly soon to explore

with the Six the problems Hong Kong's

relationship with an enlarged community,

including improvements to the community

treatment of Hong Kong under the UNCTAD

Preference, Scheme;

(v) Hong Kong is so dependent on trade

that her rising invisible carnings

cannot be expected to compensate for

any real damage to her exports.

Financial aid is unlikely to provide

a solution to Hong Kong's problems.

UK Negotiations

10.

have bun

The above negotiating objectives

agreed by Binisters. In addition, they

decided that a formal request for association

for Hong Kong under Part IV should be be

made to the Six.

11.

The then Chancellor of the

Duchy of Lancaster, Mr. Barber, in his state-

ment of 21 July referred to our wish to see

revived the provisional agreemont reached

in the 1961/3 negotiations regarding the

/association

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