Catalogue description Board of Trade: General Division: Export Services Branch (later Division): Registered files ESB (P, G or R) Series

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Reference: BT 309
Title: Board of Trade: General Division: Export Services Branch (later Division): Registered files ESB (P, G or R) Series
Description:

This series contains files from the Export Services Branch relating to export promotional work and includes papers concerning the training of staff engaged on such duties, commercial officers' conferences and market research.

The ESB series began in 1960 and was a single numerical series in which files were given a P, G or R suffix to denote papers on policy decisions, general papers or papers containing background information.

Date: 1960-1976
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ESB (P, G and R) file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Export Services Division, 1970-1971

Board of Trade, General Division, Export Services Branch, 1959-1970

Department of Trade and Industry, Export Services Division, 1971-1973

Physical description: 23 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1991 Department of Trade and Industry

Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Export Services was a branch of the General Division, and was responsible for providing information about overseas markets and advising industrial organisations and individual firms on the opportunities for, and methods of exporting their goods.

In 1970 the Export Services Branch was absorbed into a new General Export Services Division and was re-named the Export Services Division soon after its formation.

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