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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Trade Policy Department and Trade Relations and...
Catalogue reference: FCO 69
What's it about?
FCO 69
This series consists of the registered files of the Trade Policy Department and its successor the Trade Relations and Export Department. The records relate to general economic and commercial questions of international relations, including...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 69
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Trade Policy Department and Trade Relations and Export Department: Registered Files (MT Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1968-1982
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the registered files of the Trade Policy Department and its successor the Trade Relations and Export Department. The records relate to general economic and commercial questions of international relations, including tariffs, preference systems and non-tariff trade barriers, tourism and relations with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE).
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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)
- MT 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)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Trade Policy Department, 1968-1973
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Trade Relations and Export Department, 1973-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1204 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 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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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 Trade Policy Department was formed in October 1968 at the establishment of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, assuming responsibilities formerly exercised by the Economic Relations Department of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Trade Department of the Commonwealth Office. The department also represented the FCO on various Whitehall economic committees and bodies. In 1973 it merged with the Export Promotion Department to form the Trade Relations and Export Department, which continued to use the MT registered file series.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15124/
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