1982 Nov 4 - 1984 May 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1397
Trade (Britain’s international trade policies; problems with Spain and Japan; rolling back protectionism; export promotion) (Part 3)
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
|---|---|
| Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 277 |
| Any docs withheld? |
Selections from this file
Showing items 21 - 33 of 33
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Aug 3 We | Major | Trade: Cecil Parkinson letter to Geoffrey Howe ("The Renewal of the United States Export Administration Act") ["strategy to counter the use of the... Act to impose controls extraterritorially on companies in this country"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 2 Fr | Major | Trade: Howe minute to Tom King ("Competition in Liner Shipping: the UNCTAD Liner Code") [action to safeguard competition when UK accedes to the Code] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 18 Fr | Major | Trade: Tebbit minute to MT ("Rolling Back Protectionism") [priority measures: tariffs] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 24 Th | Major | Trade: Tebbit letter to Biffen ("Import Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939") [legal challenge to successive Governments' reliance on the Act] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 25 Fr | Major | Trade: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Trade Policy: Standstill and Rollback") [line to take at Foreign Affairs Council; "rollback is proceeding too slowly"; Tebbit paper] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 28 Mo | Major | Trade: Howe minute to MT ("Rolling Back Protectionism") [long-term considerations] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 8 Th | Major | Trade: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Rolling Back Protectionism") [paper; restraint on exports of textiles & footwear to UK; US restrictions on speciality steels; discussions in Brussels] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 16 Th | Major | Trade: Tebbit minute to MT (report on visit to Washington and New York) [protectionism; limiting exports of high technology goods to Eastern bloc; US intrusions into UK sovereignty; extra-territoriality; export controls; IBM; AT&T; banking secrecy in Caymans; international anti-trust matters; Freddie Laker; BT flotation; communicating the merits of privatisation; high-level contacts with US; exports to US ] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 7 We | Major | Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute MT ("Trade Policy") [comments on Tebbit paper of 28 February; additional proposals] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 7 We | Major | Trade: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Steering Committee on Economic Strategy, 11am, 8 March") [trade policy] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 2 Mo | Major | Trade: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("ES at 12.00 on Tuesday 3 April: Trade Policy") [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 18 Fr | Major | Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Export Policy") [DTI draft paper] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 30 We | Major | Trade: Chairman of the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce letter to MT (Arab-British Chamber of Commerce: opening of new premises) [invitation as principal guest] [declassified Jan 2014] |