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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Commodities and Oil Department and successors: Registered...
Catalogue reference: FCO 67
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FCO 67
This series contains records of the Commodities and Oil Department and its successors, the Commodities Department and the Oil Department. The records deal with international agreements, trade and supplies of oil, gas, strategic metals...
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FCO 67
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Commodities and Oil Department and successors: Registered Files (MC and ML Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1968-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Commodities and Oil Department and its successors, the Commodities Department and the Oil Department. The records deal with international agreements, trade and supplies of oil, gas, strategic metals (particularly aluminium, lead, tin and zinc) and United Kingdom overseas agricultural policy and supplies of and trade in foodstuffs and other agricultural produce.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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MC and ML file series
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Commodities and Oil Department, 1968-1969
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Commodities Department, 1969-1973
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Oil Department, 1969-1973
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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814 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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 Commodities and Oil Department was formed in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by merging the predecessor Foreign Office Oil Department with those elements of former Foreign Office and Commonwealth Office departments which dealt with agricultural and industrial commodity questions. The new Department's role was to handle all questions relating to international agreements concerning supplies of and trade in oil and gas, industrial raw materials, and tropical and temperate zone agricultural produce. The Department was split in 1969 into separate Oil and Commodities Departments. The Oil Department handled oil and gas questions, and the Commodities Department all other commodities.
Both the departments were wound up at the end of 1972, in a general reorganisation of the business of the FCO resulting from UK membership of the European communities. The work of the Commodities Department passed to the Trade Relations Department, while the Oil Department was merged into a new Industry, Science and Energy Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15219/
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