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success.

Similarly,

disappointment

suppliers.

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13

both CLP and

MTR sources

express

about the quality of service received from UK

Future Prospects

31.

The

importance of the UK

economic

relationship

cannot be evaluated solely in terms of past performance.

business prospects which the relationship can be

The future

expected to generate have also to be examined.

32.

Hong Kong ought to prove an increasingly attractive

business location for UK companies because:-

(a) The Sino-British

Joint Declaration (JD)

guarantees that Hong Kong's existing legal,

professional,

commercial and educational

systems will continue to operate as at

present until at least the year 2047.

Thus,

the indirect advantages created by the

historical relations with the UK (see paras

25-29 above) are not

threatened by the

transfer of sovereignty in 1997;

(b) The

JD

also

continue

guarantees that Hong Kong will

to be an attractive and profitable

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