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Export Credit Department and Export Credits Guarantee Department: Secretariat and...

Catalogue reference: ECG 5

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ECG 5

This series contains selected policy files from the main departmental file series, mostly from the Secretariat (later the Chief Executive's Department) of the Export and Credit Guarantee Department. Selected files cover the early history of the...

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Reference
ECG 5
Title
Export Credit Department and Export Credits Guarantee Department: Secretariat and successors: Registered Files
Date
1919-2009
Description

This series contains selected policy files from the main departmental file series, mostly from the Secretariat (later the Chief Executive's Department) of the Export and Credit Guarantee Department.

Selected files cover the early history of the department and its subsequent re-organisation, legislation affecting its functions, and the Export and Credits Guarantee Department's policy towards the Balkan countries at the outbreak of the Second World War. The series also contains some examples of work carried out by the department; and minutes and papers of meetings of major internal committees and the Export Guarantee Committee.

Related material

See also the records of the Department of Overseas Trade:

For records of other committees see ECG 1

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
ECG 8
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
  • Export Credit Department, 1919-1926
  • Export Credits Guarantee Department, 1926-1926
Physical description
386 file(s)
Access conditions
Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition

From 1972 Export Credits Guarantee Department

Subjects
Topics
Trade and commerce
Conflict
Operations, battles and campaigns
Accruals
Series is accruing
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6794/

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Export Credit Department and Export Credits Guarantee Department: Secretariat and successors: Registered Files

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