TNAG-0384-FCO40-430-Trade-relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-the-EEC-1973 — Page 104

CODE 18-77

Reference

quotas;

growth in Community totals; but we are seeking to ensure that not all this growth is inevitably borne by the more liberal importers in the Community. Finally, application of the formula we propose will mean that for some supplying countries (ie other than our large traditional suppliers) the UK would have to increase its importé

admittedly, these increases would not be as great as those we are requiring of some other member states but they will represent

an additional burden for the UK, to be added to the other burdens (eg Mediterraneans) that we have had to take on from non-traditional

suppliers. But we believe that we must accept this if we are to get

any movement by the others. The alternative is to continue with the existing widely differing burdens which must lead in no very long time to pressure from the UK industry, which will be extremely difficult to resist, to cut back on imports from developing countries.

L L Lowne (Miss)

CT1

6 September 1973