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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

HKK. 6/598/1

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L WR Mills Esq

Assistant Director, Europe HONG KONG

Telephone 01-

25.1

Your reference

Our reference

Date

-22 February 1971;

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GENERALISED SCHEME OF PREFERENCES

1.

Would you please refer to Hong Kong telegram number 128 which requested comments on the suggestion in a Financial Times article of 15 January about GSP textile quotas that for some sensitive non-cotton items the duty- free quotas are 1 times Britain's actual imports in 1972:

S.

2. This allegation is incorrect. For all the sensitive non-cotton items in regulation (EC) no. 3504(73) copy enclosed for ease of, reference, our actual imports in 1972 far exceed our CSP quota. In aggregate, quotas were about one per cent of trade. I am enclosing detailed figures which have been provided by the Department of Trade and Industry. Figures for carpets, twine and rope are not, available at present.

3.

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The situation is similar for non-cotton items in regulation no. 350/73:

CC;

of GSP

Juola

approx)

CCT Heading

1972 Imports

ÚK Quota

Ratio Imports to

64.01

Rubber and

4,421

195

1:22

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plastic

footwear:

64.02

Footwear

10,895

2,489

1:4.3

with leather

uppers; other footwear

Mr Goodfellow, HKIOD Miss Tait, DT1, CE 1 Miss Welch, DTI, CRE 2 Mr Rhodes, DTI, CT

RD Hart

European Integration Department (External)