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PRIVACY MARKING
.In Confidence
B W Meynell Esq
WASHINGTON
US GENERALISED PREFERENCES
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No, & Ext.
Department
1
Many thanks for your letter of 1 May.
2.
What you say about the Congressional difficulties
ahead whether Congress will pass legislation at all
and whether, if they do, they will attach restrictive
provisions on quotas or beneficiaries makes of course
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gloomy reading. While also it is very useful for us
to know the state of play in Washington as the
Administration gears itself up towards legislation;
we cannot help feeling some concern that the
recommendations reaching the White House on two issues
which are important to us
reverse preferences and
the inclusion of Hong Kong
may be unsatisfactory in
respect of our own interests.
3. Having been struck by the contrast between,on the one hand Nat Samuels' remarks to Mr Rippon and others that the US might be prepared to drop its insistence
that countries wishing to benefit from the American
offer should make a declaration of intent to abolish
reverse preferences,and, on the other, Cronk's view, as recorded in paragraph 7 of your letter, that assurance however informal would have to be obtained before any country became eligible to benefit, xxxke I sought to
obtain some clarification of Samuels
1 intentions from
Rogers of the US Embassy last week.
Samuels
Rogers said that
intention was to air one of the possibilities
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