CONFIDENTIAL
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To: Mr Guest
From: Mr Crowson (HKIOD)
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HONG KONG PARTICIPATION IN THE S.C'S GENERALISED SCHEME OF PREFERENCES FOR TEXTILES AND FOOTWEAR
PROBLEM
1.
Whether to re-open the question of Hong Kong's
exclusion from the CEC'c GSP for textiles and
footwear.
ARGUMENT
(A) The 1971 Undertakings
2. In a statement to the Community of Six on
1 February 1971, Mr Rippon accepted their proposal
to apply the ECC's GSP to dong Kong with the special
In his statement, exception of textiles and footwear.
Mr Rippon agreed that the case of Hong Kong was
thus settled definitively in the framework of the
negotiations for accessiou, and that this should be the regime applicable to the llong Kong in the case of
He added all the members of the enlarged community.
however that "Hong Kong is and will remain after enlargement a dependent territory of the United
Kingdom. It follows from this that it must be
our continuing concern to avoid discrimination against
Hong Kong in favour of its principal competitors among
the developing countries".
3.
In informing the Governor of ifong kong of
his intention to include a passage on the above lines in his prposed statement Mr Rippon indicated that his object was to record our intention there- after to pursue this ain-¶f eliminating discri ination
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