SHARING 2007 REGIME DENIAL INFORMATION WITH HONG

C O N F I D E N T I A L HONG KONG 000394 SIPDIS STATE FOR EAP/CM STATE FOR ISN/MTR E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/01/2019 TAGS: ETTC MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL HK SUBJECT: SHARING 2007 REGIME DENIAL INFORMATION WITH HONG KONG REF: SECSTATE 17712 Classified By: CONSUL GENERAL JOSEPH DONOVAN, REASON 1.4 D ¶1. (C) Econoffs conveyed to Hong Kong Trade and Industry Department (HKTID) Principal Trade Officer Billy Au reftel information drawn from denial notifications submitted by the United States to the four major multilateral non-proliferation regimes. Econoffs emphasized to Au that this information is confidential and should not be shared outside the Hong Kong SAR government. ¶2. (C) Au thanked us and noted that the Hong Kong Government is not a member of the four multilateral non-proliferation regimes. HKTID, therefore, relies on the United States and 15 other countries to provide regime denial information, which HKTID inputs into its computerized regime denial end-user list. HKTID cross-checks license applications for export of controlled goods with its computerized regime denial end-user list and will confer with the USG or give more scrutiny to an application that includes one of these companies, said Au. DONOVAN