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PDF 84 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("US Protectionism") [restrictions harming export prospects of debtor countries] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Arab-British Chamber of Commerce (ABCC)") [opening of new premises: Howe emphasises need for equal treatment of Arabs/Israel, in terms of UK government representation at official events] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Car Prices") ["The Government has opposed cheaper car prices and the interests of the customers, and has attempted to thwart a sensible intervention from Brussels"; advice] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Channon letter to Whitelaw (legal case against Government's use of Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939) [case dropped] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Export Promotion") [DTI paper deemed too insubstantial to merit dicussion in committee, given the need to justify the scale of expenditure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Trade: Tebbit letter to Rees ("ATP Management") [aid & trade provision - changes in management framework] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: UKREP Brussels telegram 2920 to FCO (1752Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council 17/18 September") ["Enlargement: Industrial Sector Tariffs"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Trade: Treasury minute (internal) ("ECGD: Liability to 'Take-Out' Loans in US Dollars and DM") [ECGD officials to discuss with banks the possibility of "unacceptable consequences for the availability of dollar or deutschmark or problems in implementing the change without an increase in public expenditure"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Rees letter to Channon ("Export Promotion") ["exporter's willingness to pay for those services which can be... charged out to him"; overall cost of Government support for exports] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Channon letter to Howe ("GATT Contracting Parties Meeting: 26-30 November") [report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Export Credit Consensus: Tied Aid Credits") [Lawson request that MT raise issue with Reagan, "to accept what is on offer from the Community as a first step"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Channon PS letter to Rees PS ("ECGD Cover for Rescheduling Countries") [draft PQ reply & press release announcing new measures] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Rees letter to Channon ("ATP Turkey: Second Bosphorus Bridge") ["no justification for any increase in ECGD's total exposure in Turkey, [but] I will not stand out against the relatively small increase... you propose"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Rees ("Turkey: Second Bosphorus Bridge") ["The Turks will certainly consider it very odd if we do not pull out all the stops to secure this business and will begin to question the seriousness of our oft-repeated wish to participate fully... in their economic rehabilitation"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Richard Hickmet MP letter to MT ("Second Bosphorus Bridge, Turkey") [represents securing of the contract as vital for the UK bidder, for UK prestige, and for employment in the North East of England; requests meeting with MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Rees letter to Channon ("The Second Bosphorus Bridge") [warned that your earlier decision to give priority to Airbus order would result in "difficult decisions because it would pre-empt almost all the available cover in a bad market"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bosphorus Bridge") ["Michael Fallon, MP, and Richard Hickmet, MP... to press the case for credit cover and ATP help for Cleveland Bridge to win the contract... They are up against heavily subsidised Japanese competition"; DTI & Treasury at odds: key points] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Michael Fallon MP, Richard Hickmet MP) ["Second Bosphorus Bridge": credit cover and ATP help for Cleveland Bridge to win the contract] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("2nd Bosphorus Bridge") [credit cover and ATP help] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 briefing for MT ("EX") [key points for committee: Bosphorus Bridge contract/NEI bid; Iran; ECGD financial problems] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Export Credits: Country Limits") ["ECGD's finances are deteriorating fast... We recommend supporting the bids for Turkey, with no ATP, and rejecting the bid for Iran"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Tebbit minute to MT ("ECGD Financial Projections") [description of potential crisis scenario, in event of developing countries defaulting on debt] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: MT letter to Richard Hickmet MP (Cleveland Bridge's bid to build the Second Bosphorus Bridge) [confirmation of ECGD support and of potential aid & trade provision] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Tebbit ("A New GATT Round") ["[Our] overriding interest... is to preserve the system of comparatively free trade represented by the GATT. Perhaps the main threat... is the mounting [US] protectionist pressure... The French and the Italians are instinctive protectionists, which we and the Germans are not"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Rifkind letter to Channon ("Proposed New GATT Round") [proposed lines to take in forthcoming international discussions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Heseltine ("Customs Relief on Imports of Defence Equipment") [if ECJ rules against Britain end result "could only be to reduce the resources available for the European Allies to devote to defence"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Charles Powell note to MT (cost-benefit analysis of each of the 23 VRAs) [cover note only, for Tebbit paper] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Rees letter to Channon ("ATP Turkey: Second Bosphorus Bridge") [conditions for ATP provision] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Rees ("Aid and Trade Provision: Turkey: Second Bosphorus Bridge") [qualified consent to Channon's proposed increase] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Heseltine minute to Howe ("Customs Relief on Imports of Defence Equipment") [EC threat to waiver of duty; FRG no longer an ally in resistance to threat] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: UKE Ankara telegram 49 to FCO (1330Z) ("Second Bosphorus Bridge") [recommendation that MT write to Ozal to support north-east England firm's involvement in Japan-led consortium] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Channon minute to MT ("Bosphorus Bridge") [draft message from MT to Ozal to support north-east England "world leader" firm's involvement in Japan-led consortium] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: MT letter to Prime Minister Özal (Second Bosphorus Bridge) [case for north-east England firm's involvement in Japan-led consortium] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Prime Minister Nakasone letter to MT (Second Bosphorus Bridge Project) [Japan's defence of its successful bid; MT irate & sceptical] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Charles Powell minute to MT (Second Bosphorus Bridge Project) [background note by British project consultant "shows that by most criteria the Japanese/Italian offer was lower: though it says nothing about how the Japanese offer was financed"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: MT letter to Michael Fallon MP (Second Bosphorus Bridge Project and Support By Government for Large Export Projects) [shares disappointment at failure of UK bid; possibility of sub-contract in Japan-led consortium; international guidelines on support by governments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: UKE Ankara telegram 240 to FCO (1600Z) ("Second Bosphorus Bridge") [possibility of work being sub-contracted to UK firm by the Japanese; concerns about Japanese government's role in succesful bid] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: UKE Washington telegram 1576 to FCO (2325Z) ("EC: US Agriculture: Export PIK") [announcement of US strategy to counter perceived unfair trade practises by competing nations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Charles Powell minute to MT ("EX") [committee: summary of papers to hand: Samanala Wewa Dam; aid & trade provision; export promotion] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (Second Bosphorus Bridge Project) ["we need to solve the problems which Japan's trade surplus causes to the world trading system"; proposed OECD study on transparency & improved discipline; sub-contracting of Bridge work by Japan to UK firm] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Export Promotion Services") [Tebbit paper on British Overseas Trade Board] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Export Promotion Services") [summary of DTI findings on effectiveness; recommended next steps] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Tebbit minute to MT ("Support for Exports") [additional points, further to papers circulated for EX committee] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Channon letter to Rees ("ECGD Cover for Turkey") [Kellogg bid] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Rees ("ECGD Cover for Turkey") [Kellogg bid] [released Dec 2014]

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