Catalogue description Commonwealth Office: Western Economic Department: Registered Files (UW and WE Series)

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Reference: FCO 62
Title: Commonwealth Office: Western Economic Department: Registered Files (UW and WE Series)
Description:

This series consists of registered files produced by the Western Economic Department of the Commonwealth Office between January 1967 and October 1968. The subject matter is Commonwealth/UK economic relations with Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and Cyprus.

Date: 1967-1968
Arrangement:

By former file reference

Related material:

For records of the Department's predecessors see DO 189

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: UW and WE file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office Western Economic Department, 1966-1968

Physical description: 94 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accruals: No further accruals expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Western Economic Department of the Commonwealth Office handled the United Kingdom's economic relations with Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and Cyprus, particularly in respect of trade in wool, meat, grain and dairy produce. The Department had responsibility for managing trade relations with these states in respect of Britain's relations with the European Economic Community, the European Free Trade Association and the North Atlantic Free Trade Area.

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