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pollution control; for medical supplies). It is also proposed to hold a

specialised exhibition in Hong Kong in Autum of 1975, with the these of

'Science, Education and Technology.'

4. The improvement in the UK's export performance in 1973 does not however

compare with the sharp increase in UK imports from Hong Kong last year (up 43%). Clothing accounts for half the increase; the trade in electrical appliances is also growing fast. HHG has been under some pressure from the

UK knitwear and cutlery industries for protection against imports from Hong Kong; these pressures have been resicted, as have moves in Brussels

to set up comprehensive EEC controls on Hong Kong garments of all fibres.

Ia adopting this course, we have taken into account not only the inadequacies

of the cases made out for protection, but also Hong Kong's interests.

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