TNAG-0299-FCO40-335-Entitlement-of-Hong-Kong-to-generalized-tariffs-preferences--1971 — Page 107

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London S.W.1

REC VED IN ĮREGISTRY No.5 1

..1971

MTU 15/4

161

OH Kemmis Esq

CRE

Department of Trade and Industry

1 Victoria Street

London SW 1

Dear Owen,

OECD MINISTERIAL COUNCIL

26 May 1971

In Cleily 27

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GENERALISED PREFERENCES ISSUES

1. I dare say you will have seen Martin Lam's copy of John Chadwick's letter of 21 May announcing, among other things, that the GPS will now be a separate part of the main Development item. You will also have seen my letter of 25 May to John Slater setting out a provisional briefing programme. It proposes that ODA should be responsible for the brief on item 3 as a whole but in consultation with you. I agreed this procedure with Robin Gray before I wrote.

2.

There is the separate suggestion, in paragraph 8 of Meynell's letter of 21 May about the US GPS, that we should take the opportunity of the presence of Secretary of State Rogers and of Samuels at the Paris meeting to tackle them together en marge of the OECD meeting both on reverse preferences and on Hong Kong. I am not sure who on the UK side will be best equipped to take this task on (I do not at present know who is going from DTI in support of Mr Noble) but may I take it that you will wish to write the brief on this as well?

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Your

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R G Britten

Trade Policy Department

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Copies to:-

Mr Laird (HKD) Mr Statham (EID) MTU 15/393/1

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