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Ministry of Overseas Development: Aid, Trade and Commodities Department: Registered...
Catalogue reference: OD 48
What's it about?
OD 48
The records in this series created by the Aid, Trade and Commodities Department relate to general United Kingdom aid and development policy in relation to the Conference on Economic Co-operation, the United Nations Conference on Trade and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- OD 48
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Overseas Development: Aid, Trade and Commodities Department: Registered Files (AT Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1976-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series created by the Aid, Trade and Commodities Department relate to general United Kingdom aid and development policy in relation to the Conference on Economic Co-operation, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), commercial policy (including preference schemes and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations), and export promotion, including relations with the Developing Countries' Import Opportunities Office.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By original file series reference within three-year file cycle.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- AT file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Ministry of Overseas Development, Aid Trade and Commodities Department, 1976-1978
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 25 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1999 Department for International Development
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1976-1978
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- OD 48/1-3 were selected for permanent preservation following an accelerated review process under the Open Government Initiative in the Overseas Development Administration which identified certain subjects whose records could be released early, including these files on follow-up action from the fourth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Other files in the series will be subjected to selection review when they are due regular second review from c 2001.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Aid, Trade and Commodities Department was set up in 1976 after the functions of the International Trade and European Department were split, those relating to European Economic Community aid passing to a European Department. The Aid, Trade and Commodities Department continued until 1978, when it was succeeded by the Economic Relations and Commodities Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14901/
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