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1984 Jun 1 - 1985 Jun 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1648
Trade (Export promotion: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); export credits; contract for second Bosphorus bridge) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 398
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85 May 21 Tu Major Trade: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Fixed Rate Export Finance (FREF) and the Aid and Trade Provision (ATP)") ["difference of views on the basic principles underlying ATP and aid for exports generally"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 21 Tu Major Trade: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Export Promotion Services") [Tebbit paper on British Overseas Trade Board] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 21 Tu Major Trade: No.10 briefing for MT (EX committee: Fixed Rate Export Finance & Aid and Trade Provision) [Charles Powell summary note of key issues] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 21 Tu Major Trade: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Fixed Rate Export Finance and the Aid and Trade Provision") [comments on Tebbit's key aims] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 21 Tu Major Trade: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Export Promotion Services") [summary of DTI findings on effectiveness; recommended next steps] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 21 Tu Major Trade: Tebbit minute to MT ("Support for Exports") [additional points, further to papers circulated for EX committee] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 24 Fr Major Trade: UKE Tokyo telegram 368 to FCO (0900Z) ("EC-Japan and Bosphorus Bridge") ["worsening of the atmosphere in Britian over economic relations with Japan... both sides faced an important conjuncture"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 29 We Major Trade: Channon letter to Rees ("ECGD Cover for Turkey") [Kellogg bid] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 1 Sa Major Trade: Prime Minister Nakasone letter to MT (Second Bosphorus Bridge Project) [defence of Japanese bid; trade imbalance problem; Charles Powell: "An olive branch, but without yielding an inch"; MT requests detailed analysis of Nakasone's points but opts not to reply] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 5 We Major Trade: Howe minute to Rees ("ECGD Cover for Turkey") [Kellogg bid] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 5 We Major Trade: Prime Minister Özal letter to MT (Second Bosphorus Bridge Project) [UK/Turkish commercial relations in wake of contract going to Japan; possiblity of sub-contract for UK firm] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 7 Fr Major Trade: UKE Tokyo telegram 415 to FCO (2347Z) ("Bosphorus Bridge: Press Statement by Mr Pattie") [comment on Nakasone letter to MT; criticism of perceived Japanese credit to Turkey in return for export promotion; threat of EC/US countermeasures to address trade imbalance with Japan] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 10 Mo Major Trade: No.10 record of conversation ("Bosphorus Bridge") [Charles Powell, Richard Needham MP: Needham criticism of UK firm's efforts to secure sub-contract; further opportunity for UK firms] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 13 Th Major Trade: MT letter to Robert Maxwell (PVC Project at Wloclawek) ["There is a general understanding among Poland's western creditors that none of them should give Poland new credit until arrangements have been completed to deal with past debts"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 17 Mo Minor Trade: Howe minute to Rees ("The Iraq-Turkey Pipeline") [BPEC request for ECGD; "I wish the Turks to understand that we remain interested in their market"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 17 Mo Major Trade: Tebbit minute to MT (Second Bosphorus Bridge Project) [UK government reaction to Japanese decision not to award any sub-contract work to UK firm] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 18 Tu Minor Trade: Rees letter to Channon ("Iraq - Turkey Pipeline") [BPEC bids for ECGD cover] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 18 Tu Major Trade: UKE Luxembourg telegram 160 to FCO (1953Z) ("EC/Japan") [draft European Council declaration on trade imbalance] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 24 Mo Major Trade: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Bosphorus Bridge") [MT agrees to bring trade dispute with Japan to a head via a meeting between Howe & Japan ambassador] [released Dec 2014]