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the need to avoid discrimination against Hong Kong and in favour of such low cost suppliers as Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore. Hong Kong could learn to live with restrictions and a certain degree of tariff protection. But quotas and other protectionist devices which discriminated against her were particularly dangerous. Mr. Rippon emphasised

that it was our intention, on accession to the

Community, further to develop the Community's liberal trading policy, although attention must also be paid to domestic pressures within the U.K.