"In concept, it's pretty simple, " says Michael Brownrigg, a trade policy officer with the U.S. Consulate-General in Hong Kong.

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"The costs here are too high, " says Sit Hoi Kan, general manager of Hong Kong's World Textile.

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Koo, Samsung's general manager in Hong Kong, says the new pagers will be shipped initially to the United States but cannot say when they will hit Asia.

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