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Board of Trade and successors: Export Policy and Promotion Division and successors:...

Catalogue reference: BT 333

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BT 333

This series contains files of the Board of Trade's Export Policy and Promotion Division and its successors covering policy issues relating to export promotion. The series includes files concerning reviews of government export promotion series...

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Reference

BT 333

Title
Board of Trade and successors: Export Policy and Promotion Division and successors: Registered Files (XP Series)
Date

1953-1987

Description

This series contains files of the Board of Trade's Export Policy and Promotion Division and its successors covering policy issues relating to export promotion.

The series includes files concerning reviews of government export promotion series operated by the Board of Trade (and its successors), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and issues such as the development of the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) at Birmingham and relations with the British National Export Council, the relationship between UK bilateral aid to poor countries, the Simplification of Trade Procedures Board, and World Trade Centres. Other files concern the British Overseas Trade Board, arms sales to South Africa, the Market Entry Guarantee Scheme, British pavilions overseas, export controls on livestock, armaments and works of art, British Weeks, and the collection of statistics and export credit and control.

The XP series was apparently inherited and added to by XP Division's successors, including EPD and OFP Divisions. The registration of files in this series commenced with the establishment of XP Division in 1968.

Arrangement
Arrangement

Former file reference order

Separated material

For re-registered XP files see

BT 343

For records relating to fairs and promotions see

PJ 3

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

XP file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Board of Trade, Export Policy and Promotion Division, 1968-1970
  • Board of Trade, General and Industrial Division, 1969-1970
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Export Planning and Development Division, 1970-1973
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Export Services and Promotion Division, 1973-1974
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Industrial and Commercial Policy Division, 1973-1974
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Industrial and Commercial Policy Division 1, 1970-1974
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Industrial and Commercial Policy Division 2, 1970-1973
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Industrial and Commercial Policy Division 3, 1970-1973
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Overseas Finance and Planning Division, 1973-1974
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Overseas Trade Division, 1983-1993
  • Department of Trade, Export Development Department, 1974-1980
  • Department of Trade, Export Services and Promotion Division, 1974-1981
Physical description

208 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1996 Department of Trade and Industry

Subjects
Topics
Art, architecture and design
International
Trade and commerce
Weapons
Aid and development
Farming
Africa
Accruals

Series is accruing

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3369/

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Board of Trade and successors: Export Policy and Promotion Division and successors: Registered Files (XP Series)

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