Catalogue description Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Trade Policy Department and Trade Relations and Export Department: Registered Files (MT Series)

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Reference: FCO 69
Title: Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Trade Policy Department and Trade Relations and Export Department: Registered Files (MT Series)
Description:

This series consists of the registered files of the Trade Policy Department and its successor the Trade Relations and Export Department. The records relate to general economic and commercial questions of international relations, including tariffs, preference systems and non-tariff trade barriers, tourism and relations with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE).
Date: 1968-1982
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MT file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Trade Policy Department, 1968-1973

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Trade Relations and Export Department, 1973-1988
Physical description: 1204 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Trade Policy Department was formed in October 1968 at the establishment of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, assuming responsibilities formerly exercised by the Economic Relations Department of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Trade Department of the Commonwealth Office. The department also represented the FCO on various Whitehall economic committees and bodies. In 1973 it merged with the Export Promotion Department to form the Trade Relations and Export Department, which continued to use the MT registered file series.

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