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Commonwealth Office: Economic General Department and Commonwealth Trade Department:...
Catalogue reference: FCO 22
What's it about?
FCO 22
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...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 22
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office: Economic General Department and Commonwealth Trade Department: Registered Files, Commonwealth Economic Policy (EG Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1966-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former file reference
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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
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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)
- EG 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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- Commonwealth Office, Commonwealth Trade Department, 1967-1968
- Commonwealth Office, Economic General Department, 1966-1967
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 31 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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In1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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)
- No further accruals expected
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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 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.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7261/
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Commonwealth Office: Economic General Department and Commonwealth Trade Department: Registered Files, Commonwealth Economic Policy (EG Series)
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