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WE CAN ALSO AGREE, AS YOU SUGGEST, THAT THIS SOLUTION SHOBO ER ACCESSION, BE THE REGIME APPLICABLE TO HONG KONG IN THE CASE OF ALL THE MEMBER STATES OF THE ENLARGED COMMUNITY. THE

APTATION OF THE OVERALL SCHEME OF GENERALISED PREFERENCES WHICH THE UK EXPECTS TO BE OPERATING UP TO THE TIME OF ITS ACCESSION TO THE SCHEME THEN BEING OPERATED BY THE COMMUNITY WILL OF COURSE RAISE A NUMBER OF TECHNICAL PROBLEMS AND I THINK IT WOULD BE

USEFUL IF YOU COULD AGREE THAT THERE SHOULD BE CONTACTS

BETWEEN OUR EXPERTS AS TO THE MODALITIES OF THIS ADAPTATION.

6. AS TO THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS WHICH RELATE TO THE INCLUSION OF HONG KONG IN THE COMMUNITY'S SCHEME, WE TAKE NOTE OF THESE AND WE ALSO NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE ANNUAL REVIEWS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY OF THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE COMMUNITY'S GEOFRALISED

PREFERENCE SCHEME.

7. WE ALSO NOTE THE COMMUNITY VIEW THAT A CERTAIN NUMBER OF PRODUCTS COMING FROM HONG KONG DO NOT SEEM TO FULFIL THE CONDITIONS OF THE RULES OF ORIGIN ENVISAGED BY THE COMMUNITY FOR USE IN THE TRAMEWORK OF THEIR GENERALISED PREFERENCE SCHEME: AND THAT ANY PRODUCTS WHICH DO NOT FULFIL THESE RULES OF ORIGIN WILL ME EXCLUDED FROM ENJOYING PREFERENCES. I WOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR

CONFIRMATION THAT THESE RULES OF ORIGIN WILL BE APPLIED ON A IDS-DISCRIMINATORY BASIS TO ALL THE DEYEFICIARIES UNDER THE COMMUN- ITIES SCHEME AND I HOPE YOU WILL FEEL ABLE TO CONVEY TO MY DELCIATION THE DETAILS OF THESE RULES OF ORIGIN. I ALSO THINK IT MIGHT

BE USEFUL IF AT A CONSIDERABLY LATER STAGE AND NEARER THE TIME OF THE IMPLEMENETATION OF THE COMMUNITY'S GENERALISED PREFERENCE SCHEME THERE COULD BE TECHNICAL CONTACTS BETWEEN OUR OFFICIALS AND THE COMMISSION TO THROW FURTHER LIGHT ON THE PRACTICAL

I PLICATION OF THESE RULES.

2. IF YOU AGREE, HR, CHAIRMAN, I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT THIS

STATEMENT TOGETHER WITH YOUR OWN STATEMENTS OF 12 AND 26

JATUARY BE. RECORDED IN THE MINUTES OF OUR MEETING.

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