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DSR 11 (Revised)

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minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

RQ Braithwaite

DEPARTMENT:

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R Williams Esq

Department of Trade & Industry

1 Victoria Street

London SWl

SUBJECT:

..In Confidence

HONG KONG AND THE GATT

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Your Reference

Copies to:

: Mr Galsworthy

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1. Thank you for your letter of 16 may recording your

own meeting with Eric Ho.

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2.

I was interested to see that he raised Hong Kong's

future status in the GATT with you. As you will have

seen from John Shepherd's letter of 17 May to Anne

Warburton, we too are fully aware of the need for urgency

on this. We expect the first meeting of the Sino-British

Joint Liaison Group (JLG) - probably in early July

discuss

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the provision in the Hong Kong Agreement that both the UK

and China shall take action to ensure inter alia the

Omaintenance of Hong Kong's participation in the GATT. to seek separate ce same pornk noe SAFT Article XXVI 5 CCP.

This will require a declaration by the UK that Hong Kong

I briefly fee has (and one by the PR that it will continue to possess)

full autonomy in its external commercial relations, as

well as a declaration by Hong Kong that it wishes to be

deemed a Contracting Party. Work is far advanced on the

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