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6/5/23/
[I have still / not
seen the
minati fare My Resting ] Perkinson]
(a view which HK
context)
UK ALIGNMENT WITH EEC GSP
1. The Governor is very concerned over the
implications of the UK's alignment with the EEC GSP,
which is due to take place on January 1974.
2. Whilst the EEC GSP includes Hong Kong as a
beneficiary it excludes her alone among her
competitors
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and footwear.
from benefit in respect of textiles
The UK GSP excludes both these
commodities entirely.
UK alignment would therefore
entail discrimination against her own colony in
respect of these two important exports, with serious
political and economic effects. The importance to
bying to get
modified
Hong Kong of modifying the EEC GSP in some way so as
Sir D. Wars,
to remove discrimination is accepted by Mr Wilford
and HKIOD.
3. On the other side Mr Robinson and EID are
concerned with the effect on our overall EEC policy
of re-opening a question that the other 8 members
consider was settled in the negotiations leading up
to the UK's accession to the EEC, and which is
confirmed by Protocol 23 of the Treaty of Accession.
Their view is that if the arrangements can be
re-opened for Hong Kong then they can arguably be
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