Catalogue description Records of the Tariff Divisions

Details of Division within BT
Reference: Division within BT
Title: Records of the Tariff Divisions
Description:

Records of the Tariff Divisions of the Board of Trade and successors relating to the policy and administration of import duties.

Papers of the Tariff Division, including a proportion inherited from its predecessors, are in BT 205, BT 303 and BT 314. Records of the Import Licensing Branch are in BT 230
Date: 1923-1985
Related material:

Papers of the Tariff Advisory Committee (1923) are in BT 232

Papers of the Tariff Advisory Committee (1951) are in BT 227
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Tariff and Import Policy Division, 1960-1963

Board of Trade, Tariff Division, 1955-1960

Board of Trade, Tariff Division, 1963-1970

Department of Trade and Industry, Tariff Division, 1970-1974

Department of Trade, Tariff Division, 1974-1976
Physical description: 4 series
Administrative / biographical background:

Tariff matters have been the responsibility of the Board of Trade since 1939, when the Import Duties Advisory Committee was wound up and its functions transferred to the board under the Import Duties (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939. The Tariff Division was established in 1955 and dealt with policy and administration arising from the system of preferences and tariffs established by the Ottawa Agreements Act 1932, the Import Duties Act 1932, the Import Duties (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939, the Customs Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) Act 1957, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and the European Coal and Steel Community.

In 1960 the division assumed responsibility for the Import Licensing Branch and was renamed the Tariff and Import Policy Division. It reverted to its old title in 1963.

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