Catalogue description Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Export Promotions Department: Registered Files (MX Series)

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Reference: FCO 70
Title: Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Export Promotions Department: Registered Files (MX Series)
Description:

This series consists of registered files of the Export Promotions Department. The records relate to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's interest in the promotion of visible and invisible exports through trade promotion exercises and credit policy.

Date: 1968-1973
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MX file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Export Promotions Department, 1968-1973

Physical description: 193 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2000 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accruals: Series is accruing annually
Administrative / biographical background:

The Export Promotions Department was formed in October 1968 to exercise functions relating to trade promotion previously exercised by the Economic Relations Department of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Trade Department of the Commonwealth Office. The department dealt with the organisation, training and operations of the overseas Government Commercial Service, and handled policy and procedural questions for commercial posts. The department merged in 1973 with the Trade Policy Department to become the Trade Relations and Export Department, at which time the MX series was discontinued.

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