TNAG-0298-FCO40-334-Entitlement-of-Hong-Kong-to-generalized-tariffs-preferences--1971 — Page 120

Registry No. Hkk 6/1

JRITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential,

Restricted.

Unclassified,

PRIVACY MARKING

Personal

In Confidence

DRAFT Letter

To:-

T. Cater Es

Director of Commerce & Industing

Nong Kong

Type 1 +

From

E.O., Land

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

Thank you for your letter of/24 February about the prospects for inclusion of Hyfug kong in the offers of generalised preferences by tapan and the EEC.

Janey almad

With regard to the Jaffauere offer, I understand that the bill on Geveralined prefefences, which will not contain a list of beneficiaries, would havels be passed by the Dist by the end of March and that a Cabinet Order designating beneficiaries and products will affear about June so that the Jakopane offer on/preferences can come nite force

ou 1 July From this programme, it would probably be most useful of your talks with the Japanese take place in April or May and I am save that Wakefield has this in mind and will be trying

awauge for talks at that time,

your

The EEC offer of generalized preferences for Hong Kong may not be as generous as their offer for

main competitors but it is much better than the a short while negative response which affeeved likely

of the EEC include textiles and stoves in their offers to South Korea and Suigafore there is little that we can do about it but, as Mr. Rippon said in his telfgram No 91 of 29 January, we will contine to purous the matter of discrimination aganist Hong Kong.

ago.

Althrough the EEC is not expected to include Taufan in their generalized preflasues offer, the libffhood is that, as Hannay mentions in his letter to podge, that a mortified offer will be made later in the year. lates

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