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DRAFT MERTER TO

CP Haddon-Cave, Esq

Appendix 1

from P W Ridley

In my letter of 14 January, T

undertook that, if the UK Government

decided in principle to agree to licensing

for such orders outside the quotas, the

claims of Hong Kong would be given

sympathetic consideration, including

your request that any excess yardage should

be made available to the Hong Kong Government

for allocation.

2

I explained to you that if we agreed

to any excess yardage, the total in relation

to claims might well be very small; and

that the amounts that we agreed to in

respect of individual supplying countries

would probably be related to the extent

to which pre-existing orders could genuinely

not be accommodated within quota limits

because the total of pre-existing orders

was in excess of the total 1972 quotas.

PW RIDLEY

14 January 1972