Mr L WR Mills
Commerce and Industry Department
Fire Brigade Building Hong Kong
HKK 6/128/17
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DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Chemicals & Textiles Division
Millbank Tower
Millbank London SW1
3 December 1973
Dear Laurée
CARRYOVER OF UNUSED 1973 QUOTA INTO 1974
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The part of your letter of 14 November which we liked best was paragraph 10, in which you estimated that the carryover between 1973 and 1974 would either be no greater than the normal permiuted 10% of quota, or at any rate much less than the 62 million square yards that we had feared.
I took the opportunity of an informal visit by Bill Dorward and David Sellars to Liz Lowme on 28 November to raise the matter, suggesting that an increase from 10 to 15% - about 40 million square yards - should be satisfactory to both sides. But your collearues' description of the domestic and political difficulties involved in issuing an amendment to the announcement already made, coupled with our assessment of the amount of goods that might be involved - large in terms of quota concessions, but small in relation to the total of Hong Kong's cuota - persuaded us to make no further protest. Unlimited carryover from 1973 into the first half of 1974 will therefore be permitted.
We would be grateful if you would refrain from interpreting this es acceptance of all or any of the arguments you have advanced on this issue; nor may it be used as a precedent for anything to do with carryover or unilateral actions by Hong Kong in future.
I am copying this letter to David Cellars, Mark Goodfellow and Cherry Welch.
decision.
Our Import Licensing Branch will also be told of our
Yours viscos
Ro
RP Hope
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