Commonwealth Office: Economic General Department and Commonwealth Trade Department:...

This series contains records of the Economic General Department of the Commonwealth Office and its successor, the Commonwealth Trade Department, dealing with general questions of Commonwealth trade and economics, including the sterling area, the balance of payments, Commonwealth relations with international economic organisations, shipping, petroleum and gas, copyright matters, double taxation agreements, East-West trade and strategic trade controls and the peaceful uses of atomic energy.

By former file reference

For later Foreign and Commonwealth Office files dealing with atomic energy see FCO 55

For earlier Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office Economic General Department files see DO 215

For later Foreign and Commonwealth Office files dealing with shipping matters see FCO 14

• Commonwealth Office, Commonwealth Trade Department, 1967-1968
• Commonwealth Office, Economic General Department, 1966-1967

In1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Nuclear energy

Oil and gas

The Economic General Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office was formed in 1965 to handle general trade and economic questions affecting the whole Commonwealth and Commonwealth relations with international economic organisations. The Department was renamed the Commonwealth Trade Department in January 1967, though its basic functions did not alter. Upon the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, the Department was abolished and its functions distributed among various departments of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.