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Department of Trade and Industry and successors: British Overseas Trade Board (BOTB):...
Catalogue reference: FV 78
What's it about?
FV 78
The records concern development of the government's export promotion services; provision of technical help, market information and trade contacts to export associations
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FV 78
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Trade and Industry and successors: British Overseas Trade Board (BOTB): Meetings, Agendas, Minutes and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1972-1982
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records concern development of the government's export promotion services; provision of technical help, market information and trade contacts to export associations
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The records are arranged in numerical order within an annual sequence.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files of the Finance Committees of the BOTB FV 76
Files of the Secretariat of the BOTB FV 75
Files of the Advisory Council of the BOTB FV 77
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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- Department of Trade and Industry, British Overseas Trade Board, 1972-1974
- Department of Trade and Industry, British Overseas Trade Board, 1983-1988
- Department of Trade, British Overseas Trade Board, 1974-1983
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 37 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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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Department of Trade and Industry
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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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- Topics
- Trade and commerce
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series ran from 1972 to 1988
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- This series documents the development of the government's export promotion services; provision of technical help, market information and trade contacts to export associations, and in accordance with the published acquisition policy (paragraphs 2.2.1, 2.2.1.2, 2.2.1.3) all surviving reports have been preserved.
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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 British Overseas Trade Board was formed in 1972 to direct and develop the Government's export promotion services on behalf of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. The board consisted of business leaders and representatives from the Confederation of British Industry, the Trade Union Congress, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Export Credit Guarantee Department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The work of the British Overseas Trade Board was recorded in minutes and papers relating to the full meetings of the board.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15625/
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