Catalogue description Treasury: Committee on Trading with the Enemy: Case Papers

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Title: Treasury: Committee on Trading with the Enemy: Case Papers
Description:

Case papers of the Committee on Trading with the Enemy.

The documents in this series are case papers, most of which were referred to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel.

Date: 1914-1917
Related material:

For Committee of Imperial Defence papers relating to trading with the enemy, see:

CAB 16/18A

CAB 16/18B

Separated material:

No policy papers of the committee survive.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Committee on Trading with the Enemy, 1914-1917

Physical description: 89 file(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

The Committee on Trading with the Enemy was set up by treasury minute of 4 August 1914. It evolved from the report of the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence.

The committee was 'to consider, with a view to co-ordination of Departmental action, questions arising out of applications and enquiries from the public as regards Trade with an enemy country and to keep a register of decisions'.

It consisted of nominated representatives of the following departments: Treasury, Home Office, Foreign Office, Admiralty, War Office, Colonial Office, India, Board of Trade, Customs and Excise, and Privy Council.

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