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EFFECTS OF UK JOINING TIL EXC

In practice, Hong Kong's prospects of increasin

exports to Europe are determined by the restrictive

policies of the EEC and its Member States, rather tha

by the competitiveness of Hong Kong's products.

Mr Rippon could say that we are working with our

partners in the Community towards a common policy onl

textiles. This has to take into account the fact the L

the UK's textile imports from developing countries are

proportionately far greater than those of the ix.

We are urging them to move towards free circul DA

of textile goods within the Community, and the adeption

of genuine Community Quotas for imports, possibly on i

pan-fibre basis, but we recognise that this era only

come about gradually.

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