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22.
(1) Would the Community be prepared to revise the
application of the Common Agricultural Policy in accordance with this principle?
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(2) Cognac dominates the Hong Kong market for brandy.
If this principle were applied; Hong Kong would impose restrictions to limit the import of French brandy in order to create greater opportunities for the smaller suppliers such as the USA, Australia
and South Africa.
Discrimination against more than one is not discrimination
It has been suggested that these proposals are not discriminatory because it is not intended that they should be applied to Hong Kong alone but also to other 'principal suppliers'. If this group is to be treated differently from the remaining
Discrimination against suppliers this is still discrimination.
a 'group does not lessen the damage suffered by cach member of
that group.
Hong Kong cannot be persuaded that to be sentenced without trial for the crime of being successful is made less unjust by the fact that others are to be sentenced for the same "crime", particularly when the sentence would have a greater effect on Hong Kong's health than on anyone else's.
General
23.
The member states of the Community are contracting parties to the GATT. Through the United Kingdom, Hong Kong has the rights and accepts the obligations of a contracting party. The Community and Hong Kong are participants in the MTA.
24.
In neither the CATT nor the MFA can any basis be found Indeed they run for the proposals put forward by the Community. counter to the letter and the spirit of both instruments.
Hong Kong
October 1977
Ref. CR/EIC 230/5/12/4 II
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