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will suffer serious damage given the very large level of access
A head of the Colony already have to the Community market. steam may develop in the Community for some reduction in existing
I do not access for certain of the highly sensitive products.
think we can do more on this side for the moment than wait and see how the situation develops, but we carry Hong Kong's interests very much in our thoughts. Our guiding policy, of course, is to do our best to avoid direct collision between the UK's and Hong Kong's interests; and I know this is your policy as well.
5. Incidentally I saw a little report in 'The Times' of 11 May quoting the Asian Wall Street Journal' about the regional conference of textile producers held in Hong Kong earlier this month. We had assumed this seminar on the MFA organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat was to have been a simple exchange of information between textile producers. I have seen nothing else in the press which is perhaps just as well. The last thing you or I want is any suggestion that Hong Kong is inspiring a united front to oppose the protectionist aspirations of the Community in the textile field!
I am I am, of course, writing in the strictest confidence, quite happy for you to show this letter to David Jordan, but may I ask you not to give it a wider circulation?
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Your Ever
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D F Murray
Sir D Maitland, UKREP, Brussels.
CMG OBE
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