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Treasury, Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Trading with the Enemy...

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Reference	BT 271
Title	Treasury, Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments: Registered Files
Date	1927-1992
Description	Registered files of the Trading with the Enemy Branch (later Department) which was administered jointly by the Treasury and the Board of Trade. This series contains policy and case files relating to all aspects of its work and that of its successor, the Administration of Enemy Property Department. The few war-time papers surviving were mainly in the ED, T/E Gen, T/E Gen 21/ and CRT series. The ED series dealt with enemy debts and the CRT series with trading with the enemy. The T/G Gen files in this series were all that still survived. All that is known about the T/E Gen 21/ series is that they were used by the Censorship Section. A new policy series T/E... /P began in 1948 and swiftly changed to AEP... /P. This series continued in use until 1986 although few new files were raised after AEP became part of Finance Division in 1957. With the appointment of Administrators some files in this sequence, dealing with the disposal of assets from Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania, were prefixed Adm(B), Adm(H), Adm(R) and general series with these three prefixes were also used. A DGEP prefix was used to deal with the disposal of German assets. The AEP annual series was used for similar work but usually on behalf of the Custodian. The majority of files in these series, and in the ED series, were case papers. The selection here consists of a small sample chosen to illustrate the variety of work done and property handled. Includes files re-registered from the CRT series: BT 11.
Related material	For Custodian of Enemy Property records see records of the Public Trustee PT Papers of the Nazi Victims Relief Trust are in BT 105 Records of the Enemy Property Branch are in BT 15 Registered Files of the Custodian of Enemy Property relating to Palestine are in CO 1044 See also the records of the Second World War depts Papers on the organisation of the Trading with the Enemy Branch may be found in BT 13 Records inherited from the pre-War Enemy Debts Clearing Office are in BT 203
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Creator	Board of Trade, Administration of Enemy Property Department, 1948-1957 Board of Trade, Enemy Property Branch, 1957-1969 Board of Trade, Trading with the Enemy Department, 1942-1948 Department of Trade and Industry, Finance and Economic Appraisal Division, 1970-1974 Treasury and Board of Trade, Trading with the Enemy Branch, 1939-1942
Physical description	830 files and volumes
Access conditions	Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Unpublished finding aids	A glossary of words and phrases in use is in BT 271/822
Selection and destruction information	The selection in this series was made from the files surviving in 1986.

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