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the case for non-cotton textiles and for footwear,
where the position of Hong Kong's major competitors
has not changed since 1971. But we can point to the
increased difficulty of justifying discrimination
against our own territory on these products also, at a
time when the Community is committed to improving the
terms of the GSP and in the face of the fact that
concessions have been made to Hong Kong's competitors
on items of interest to them in other fields. [F]
Hong Kong
10. When he was in Hong Kong recently, Sir C Soames
told the representatives of the Nine there, that the
Commission he recognised there was a problem of
discrimination, and that they would have to think of
how they might be able to solve it. The final
decision was for the Council of Ministers.
expects us to initiate this process by putting their
case to the Community as forcefully as we can. I ask
my colleagues to agree that we should now do so. We
shall need to take the matter up very soon, since
decisions will shortly be made in Brussels on the
details of the GSP for 1974.
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