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1989 Feb 13 - 1989 Jun 23
Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Private Office files (Lawson)

T640/1321
Europe (World economy: Italy 1987-1989)

Source: HMTPO
Release date: 2014
Classification: Secret
Page count: 185
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Trade, British relations with Italy

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Date Value Title
87 Oct 27 Tu Major World economy/USA: Treasury minute ("World Economy: Next Steps: Letter to Baker") [draft, making proposals for "a modest dollar realignment" post-Black Monday] [declassified Feb 2018]
87 Dec 22 Tu Minor Italy: Italian Prime Minister Goria letter to MT (his talks with President Reagan in Washington) [INF treaty; Gulf; depreciation of the dollar; combatting protectionism] [declassified Feb 2018]
88 Feb 24 We Minor World economy/Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("European monetary construction: Italian views") [call on Treasury minister Amato; encloses Amato paper for Lawson] [declassified Feb 2018]
88 Sep 6 Tu Minor World economy/Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Indirect tax approximation") [Italian thinking - "open to consideration of British ideas but predisposed in Commission's favour"] [declassified Feb 2018]
88 Oct 21 Fr Major Italy: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-De Mita, Howe and Andreotti joining later) [Italian economy; E/W relations; Conference on Human Rights; Tornado for Jordan; Libya; the Gulf; EC] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Nov 18 Fr Minor World economy/Italy: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Bilateral with Signor Amato: EMU") [Italian thinking; agenda for Lawson-Amato bilateral on 21 Nov] [declassified Feb 2018]
89 Jun 23 Fr Minor World economy/Italy: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("World Economic Prospects: June 1989") [anticipates further tightening of monetary policy in Europe and Japan later in the year] [declassified Feb 2018]
89 Jun 23 Fr Major World economy/China: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("World Bank: China loans") [US seeking to delay the loans indefinitely, post-Tiananmen; do so on technical grounds] [declassified Feb 2018]