TNAG-0385-FCO40-431-Trade-relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-the-EEC-1974 — Page 76

MR ROYLE'S PROPOSED ANSWER

We have put our Community partners on notice

that we shall press most resolutely for the

inclusion of Hong Kong's textiles and footwear

in the EEC Generalised Scheme of Preferences

from 1975.

MR DAVIES' REVISED PROPOSED ANSWER

We have been in close touch with the Hong Kong

Government about their expectations from the

Community's GFS. I have made it clear to the

Community that in 1974 we shall be pressing/for

pressing

Resolute

further concessions in favour of Hong Kong,

including textiles and footwear, in addition to

the improvements in the new Community GPS which

take effect this year.

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