Catalogue description HM Treasury: Overseas Finance Sector and successors: International Trade Policy (ITPA prefix): Registered Files

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Title: HM Treasury: Overseas Finance Sector and successors: International Trade Policy (ITPA prefix): Registered Files
Description:

The ITPA prefix comprises policy records on international trade. This includes such issues as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The records also cover 'organised trade' versus 'free trade' issues; European Community financial and economic trade issues (e.g. the single market).
Date: 1989-1998
Arrangement:

Records are arranged chronologically in file prefix order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ITPA prefix
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, 1667-

Treasury, European Community Division 1, 1981-1995

Treasury, Overseas Finance Sector, 1975-1995
Physical description: 241 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2017 Treasury
Custodial history: The records were stored at HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1, until 1999. Thereafter the records were stored with a third party contractor prior to their transfer to The National Archives.
Accumulation dates: 1989 to 1997
Selection and destruction information: RCP s.3.1.1 - records that illustrate the government's role in the management of the UK economy.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Overseas Finance Sector was created in 1975. It became Overseas Finance in 1985. In 1995 it was replaced by the International Finance Directorate.

European Community Group existed to 1995 after which it became the European Union Coordination / European Future Strategy and Trade Policy and Developments.

European Community Division 1 existed to 1995. Thereafter it became Regional Country Analysis / World Economic Issues / Trade Policies and Developments to 1997. This unit created the ITPA prefix records.

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