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PARALLEL AND WERE ACTIVATED EITHER WHEN
HONG KONG AUTHORITIES,
IN PURSUANCE OF THEIR OBLIGATION UNDER THE EXPORT AUTHORISATION
SYSTEM, INFORMED THE COMMUNITY THAT A GIVEN PRODUCT HAD REACHED
ITS TRIGGER LEVEL, OR WHEN THE COMMUNITY SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM,
HAVING DEMONSTRATED SIMILARLY THAT THIS LEVEL HAD BEEN REACHED,
PUT US IN A POSITION TO ASK THE HONG KONG AUTHORITIES TO IMPOSE
RESTRAINTS. THE U.S. CLAUSE WOULD ALLOW THE COMMUNITY TO IMPOSE
RESTRAINTS UNILATERALLY IF, FOR ANY GIVEN PRODUCT, SUCH AN ARRANGE-
MENT PROVED INEFFECTUAL.
5.
THE SECOND PROBLEM WAS THAT OF FLEXIBILITY. OUR COMPLICATED
CATEGORISATION SYSTEM HAS MADE THE PROVISIONS FOR FLEXIBILITY
EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THEN HITHERTO FOR HONG KONG. WE POINTED OUT
TO THE COMMISSION THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT FOR US TO GO
ANY FURTHER THAN THE POSITION ALREADY AGREED IN THE ARTICLE 113
COMMITTEE. BECK THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE TO GET THE HONG
KONG DELEGATION TO AGREE THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO SWING BETWEEN
PRODUCTS IN GROUP 1 BUT THAT FOR ALL THE OTHER PRODUCTS SWING
SHOULD BE AUTOMATIC. WE SAID THIS WOULD NEED FURTHER CONSIDERATION (YOUR TELNO. 2100, PARA 2(111) REFERS).
FCO ADVANCE (DESK BY 2510382) TO:
FCO
STERN (EID/E), STEWART (HKD)
301
MISS LOWNE, FARRY (CT), RIDLEY
DOT MISS MACFARLANE, HELLINGS (CRE 1), GRAY
FCO PASS SAVING TO UKMIS GENEVA
LADVANCED AS REQUESTED]
MAITLAND
[REPEATED
AS
REQUESTED]
FRAME EXTERNAL
EID (E)
HKOG D
MR CORTAZZI
ADDITIONAL DIST N
FRAME
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