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Board of Trade: Tariff Division: Files
Description and record details
| Reference | BT 205 |
|---|---|
| Title | Board of Trade: Tariff Division: Files |
| Date | 1936-1972 |
| Description | Files of the Tariff Division relating to various international agreements. The files concern the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, negotiations over the creation of the European Free Trade Area, preference agreements with Commonwealth countries, and the administration of anti-dumping legislation. Apart from general policy on tariffs and duties, the series also contains material on steps taken to protect British agriculture and the jute and dyestuffs industries. The Tariff Division's files include a proportion of papers mainly dating from 1950, inherited from its predecessors. When the name of the Division was changed to the Tariff and Import Policy Division started a new registered file cycle with the prefix 'TIP' some of which are in this series but most are in BT 303 |
| Related material |
Records of the Import Duties Advisory Committee (IDAC), established by the Ottawa Agreements Act, are in BT 10 For further records dealing with relations with the European Coal and Steel Community see BE 1 Records relating to duty and import controls: PJ 2 |
| Held by | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status | Public Record(s) |
| Language |
English |
| Creator |
Board of Trade, Tariff and Import Policy Division, 1960-1963 Board of Trade, Tariff Division, 1955-1960 |
| Physical description | 422 file(s) |
| Access conditions | Subject to 30 year closure |
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