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Record of the meeting on 1 February 1971. Paragraph 4.

"It was recognised that some opinion within the Lancashire industry favoured both tariff and quota protection and that this situation might arise after UK entry into the EEC but until that time the Government fully intended to avoid it and to rely on tarif protection alone from 1 January 1972."

Paragraph 6.

"Any reimposition of quotas in the circumstances laid down would be confined to the sectors affected and would therefore be different from the present restrictions. There was therefore no case for retaining the present restrictions in the interests of continuity.

29 November 1971

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Hr Barrington

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E O Laird

Hong Kong Department