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LETTER
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From
To:-
Sir Hugh Norman-Walker KCMG OBE Hong Kong
E O Laird
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department Hong Kong
You will recall that, at the consultations held
in November last between the Governor and Hong Kong.
Government Officials and United Kingdom Government
officials, the Governor proposed that the United
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Kingdom should urge the EEC to exclude textiles and
shoes entirely from their offer of Generalised
Preferences in order to eliminate possible
discrimination against Hong Kong in favour of
South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.
The United Kingdom side explained that the
United Kingdom had not adopted the EEC type of offer,
and therefore was in a weak position to influence the
EEC in this matter and that in any case we wished the
Community to maintain even their limited offer on
textiles which was of benefit to other Commonwealth
countries.
However it is not yet established whether
the EEC have decided to include your close competitors
in their offer; pressure by us on the EEC for such a
step would prove embarrassing in UNCTAD since your
competitors' LDC status has never been called in
question and that it would be tactically
disadvantageous to complicate the EEC's study of
Hong Kong by making reference to your competitors with
the result that the EEC might review the offer they
have made, to Hong Kong's detriment.
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