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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
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82 Nov 4 Th Major Trade: Lord Cockfield minute to MT (measures to reduce export credit risks and subsidies) ["essential that we get right the balance between financial prudence and the interests of our exporters"; ECGD credit exposure; Mexico] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 17 We Major Trade: Rees letter to Pym (GATT Ministerial meeting) [line to be taken at Foreign Affairs Council immediately prior to GATT meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 17 We Major Trade: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 ("GATT Ministerials - message from Mr Shultz") ["I enclose a copy of an illustrative list... of what we perceive as protectionist US measures and subsidies"; MT: "A very useful document"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 24 We Major Trade: Lord Cockfield letter to MT ("GATT Ministerial Meeting") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 29 Mo Major Trade: Willie Rickett minute to MT ("Statement on GATT") [GATT Ministerial meeting: reception in Parliament to Rees statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 1 We Major Trade: Cabinet Office briefing for No.10 ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [GATT Ministerial meeting; Fisheries Council; EC trade with USSR; Environment Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 6 Mo Major Trade: Department of Trade briefing for No.10 (meeting with Commissioner Davignon) [Japan; Spain; EC/US relations] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 8 We Major Trade: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Davignon) [Japan; Spain; UK contribution to EC Budget; European steel industry; US budget deficit] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 10 Fr Major Trade: MT message to Gaston Thorn (trade issues) [Japan; Spain: "continued delay in finding adequate solutions is no longer acceptable"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 10 Fr Major Trade: John Coles minute to MT (EC Commission meeting with George Shultz) [agriculture; East/West relations; economic & monetary situation] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 15 We Major Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Trade policy and Import Advisory Board) [Dept of Trade proposals "ill-thought-out and... likely to prove counter-productive"; Cockfield's proposal for an IAB "utterly wrong"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 15 We Major Trade: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 ("Trade with Spain") [response to MT request for details of "our problems with Spain and the initiatives which we have taken"] [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]
82 Dec 17 Fr Major Trade: Pym minute to Rees ("GATT Ministerial Meeting") ["you are to be complimented for the skill with which you played the UK hand"] [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]
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]
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 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 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 Apr 13 We Major Trade: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Export Credit Subsidies and Risks") [various issues with Geoffrey Howe proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]