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3. Mr Jordan asked whether he could get an agreed form
of words from us that he could use when he met the
press rehsers on his return to Hong Kong. He wished to give
the reasons why the United Kingdom Government considere
in
exclusion
it would not be successful eraisp the principle of
Paxfiles and footwear
Hong Kong's excluzion with the Community before
wished
Hone
He alignment.also to say that had agreed that we
would raise this matter early in the New Year. A
formula was in fact worked out and both EID and the
DTI(CRE1) agreed that in February we should ask for the
review of the Community's Generalised Scheme of
Freferences to be brought forward from July to say
April and aim to conclude the annual review by July.
Subsequently, however, in the light of ExCo's decision
to exclude the Anglo/Italian bid for the Hong Kong Mass
Rapid Transit System, Mr Royle's Office agreed that we
should not authorise Mr Jordan to make this statement
but that we should propose that the Prime Minister
should do so when he is in Hong Kong in January.
Latter
It
is likely that the will be under pressure from the
manufacturers to do something about the Generalised
Scheme of Preferences and this will be something
positive he can say in addition to the promises given
by Mr Davies.
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