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(c)

(a)

it has always been accepted that the Hong Kong Government can negotiate bilateral arrangements within the terms of the LTA on its own. The outcome of these negotiations have been notified to the CATT Secretariat for transmission to the Cotton Textiles Committee in such terms as "Arrangement between country X and Hong Kong" (note: not "Arrangement between country X and the UK on behalf of Hong Kong"). This may, in the first instance, have been a certain shorthand, but it has now become hallowed by convention;

likewise the GATT Secretariat requests statistics on trade in cotton textiles from Hong Kong direct. These are

circulated in the COT/STATS series under the rubric "Reporting country • Hong Kong";

(e) the GATT Secretariat has always

(1)

esponded separately with Hong Kong

matters affecting the Arrangement and specifically requested Hong Kong's views on its workings before the first extension in 1967;

likewise, Sir Eric Wyndham-White corresponded directly with Mr. Holmes, then Director of Commerce and Industry, on his ideas on a package deal for the treatment of cotton textiles in the Kennedy Round and the extension of the LTA; and Mr. Haddon-Cave of the Hong Kong Government attended the meetings on this subject to all intents and purposes as a separate representative and spoke as such;

(g) the GATT Secretariat very often approach

me informally for a "Hong Kong view" of developments in the cotton textile field and at recent meetings of the CTC Mr. Jordan and I were consulted by the Secretariat on developments in the Committee;

/(h)

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