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MFN TREATMENT FOR CHINA AND HONG KONG

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RF Cooper

Policy Planning Staff

28 October 1992

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A Clinton Administration would probably be committed to ending China's MFN status in the USA, or doing something equally painful to China unless there were major political reforms there. I think we have been asked to make suggestions on how Hong Kong could be safeguarding Hong Kong's position.

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Would it be a solution for the United States to decide that Chinese goods would qualify for MFN treatment only if they had been exported through Hong Kong and bore a Hong Kong government stamp? This would be good for Hong Kong economically and would put the Chinese on notice that the United States took a special interest in Hong Kong.

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