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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)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 277
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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]
84 May 18 Fr Major Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Export Policy") [DTI draft paper] [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 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 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]
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]
83 Nov 28 Mo Major Trade: Howe minute to MT ("Rolling Back Protectionism") [long-term considerations] [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 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 18 Fr Major Trade: Tebbit minute to MT ("Rolling Back Protectionism") [priority measures: tariffs] [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 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 Apr 13 We Major Trade: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Export Credit Subsidies and Risks") [various issues with Geoffrey Howe proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 29 Tu Major Trade: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Lord Cockfield ("Export Credit Subsidies and Risks") [publication of guidelines for ECGD; Cockfield strongly opposes publication in run-up to Election] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 28 Mo Major Trade: Lord Cockfield letter to Pym ("The United Nations Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences") [action to safeguard competition when UK accedes to the Code] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 3 Th Major Trade: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Cockfield ("Export Credit Consensus") ["line to be taken by the UK in the next round of negotiatons within the EC and the OECD"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jan 12 We Major Trade: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Cockfield ("Support for Capital Goods Export") ["policy issues on export subsidies"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 23 Th Major Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Imports Panic") ["if we encourage this panic... we shall be driven into... withdrawal from the [EC]": counter-strategy proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 17 Fr Major Trade: Lord Cockfield letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Support for Capital Goods Exports") [request for meeting with Howe & Jenkin to discuss policy options] [declassified Jan 2014]