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TO PRIORITY FCO TELNO 852 OF 11 JULY 1974..
INFO PRIORITY GOVENOR HONG KONG UKREP BRUSSELS BRUSSELS (FOR DODGE) INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT LONDON UKMIS GENEVA (FOR DORWARD)
THE HAGUE PARIS DUBLIN ROME COPENHAGEN
COPENHAGEN TELMO 167; HONG KONG, GENERALISED PREFERENCE SCHEME.
WE MADE ARRANGEMENTS FOR DODGE AND TSAO TO SEE FLSON, ASSISTANT INPER SECRETARY IN THE MISTRY OF THE ECONGLY BUT IN THE EVENT HE WAS CALLED MAY AT THE LAST MOMENT. THE VISITORS, ACCOMPANIED BY COUNSELLOR ECONOMIC (UNMIN), WERE RECEIVED BY LUTZ, HEAD OF TARIFF POLICY DEPARTMENT OF THE MINISTRY, AND HIS ASSISTANT, HORIG, WHO WERE WELL INFORMED AND HELPFUL.
2. AFTER PRELIMINARY REMARKS BY UNWIN, DODGE AND TSAG DEVELOPED
IN DETAIL THE HONG KONG ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF DISCRIMINATION
UNDER THE GSP ON THE HONG KONG FOOTWEAR AND TEXTILE INDUSTRIES AND
THE DANGER OF UNINTENTIONAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST HONG KONG
INTERESTS ARISING OUT OF THE COMPISSION PROPOSALS WITH REGARD TO
'PRIVILEGED COUNTRIES?”.
3. ON FOOTWEAR THE GERMANS ARGUED THATY SHOE IMPORTS, PARTICULARLY
FROM ITALY, WERE A SENSITIVE POLITICAL ISSUE HERE. THEY WERE INTERES- TED TO LEARN THAT THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND HMG WERE SATISFIED
WITH THE COMMISSION PROPOSALS IN THIS SECTOR. THEY THEISELVES VERC
CONSIDERING THEM BUT WERE SURE THAT THEY WOULD HAVE CONSIDERABLE
DIFFICULTY IN ACCEPTING THEM.
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