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Series
Board of Trade and successors: Commercial Relations and Export Division: Registered...
Catalogue reference: BT 241
What's it about?
BT 241
Registered files of the Commercial Relations and Export Division of the Board of Trade and its successors. This series contains files relating to international trade policy and trade promotion. The files concern: foreign and commonwealth trade...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 241
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: Commercial Relations and Export Division: Registered Files (CRE (P, G & R suffix) Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1934-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files of the Commercial Relations and Export Division of the Board of Trade and its successors.
This series contains files relating to international trade policy and trade promotion. The files concern: foreign and commonwealth trade negotiations and agreements, including treaties; the membership of GATT and trade between GATT members; the European Economic Community; the European Free Trade Area; the United Nations Trade and Development Board; the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); the economic policy measures of other countries which affect the UK; commercial agreements on quota arrangements and import-export facilities; economic boycotts and sanctions; import controls; model draft treaties; tariffs; market sharing agreement under US anti-trust legislation; extra-territoriality aspects of USA anti-trust investigation into international uranium cartel; international commodity policy; and specific commodities including cereals, coal and coke, cocoa, coffee, copper, cotton, fruit and vegetables, lead, meats, oil, oils and fats, pulp and paper, rubber, sugar, tea, tin, wool and zinc.
In 1948 a policy, general and record file series was created to run in parallel with the annual series of CRT (shortly to become CRE) files which continued.
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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)
- CRE (P, G & R suffix) 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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- Board of Trade, Commercial Relations and Exports Department, 1949-1970
- Department of Trade and Industry, Commercial Relations and Exports Department, 1970-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 3297 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 1982 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3278/
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Within the department: BT
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
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Board of Trade and successors: Commercial Relations and Export Division: Registered Files (CRE (P, G & R suffix) Series)
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