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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)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 398
Themes: British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, British relations with the US, Foreign policy (Middle East), Foreign policy (development, aid, etc), Public spending & borrowing, Trade, British relations with Japan

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Date Value Title
85 Feb 12 Tu Major 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]
85 Feb 12 Tu Major Trade: Tebbit minute to MT ("ECGD Financial Projections") [description of potential crisis scenario, in event of developing countries defaulting on debt] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 27 We Major 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]
85 Mar 11 Mo Major 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]
85 Mar 28 Th Major Trade: Rifkind letter to Channon ("Proposed New GATT Round") [proposed lines to take in forthcoming international discussions] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 4 Th Major 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]
85 Apr 16 Tu Major Trade: Charles Powell note to MT (cost-benefit analysis of each of the 23 VRAs) [cover note only, for Tebbit paper] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 23 Tu Major Trade: Rees letter to Channon ("ATP Turkey: Second Bosphorus Bridge") [conditions for ATP provision] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 25 Th Major Trade: Howe minute to Rees ("Aid and Trade Provision: Turkey: Second Bosphorus Bridge") [qualified consent to Channon's proposed increase] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 26 Fr Major 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]
85 May 7 Tu Major 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]
85 May 8 We Major 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]
85 May 8 We Major 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]
85 May 9 Th Major Trade: Prime Minister Nakasone letter to MT (Second Bosphorus Bridge Project) [Japan's defence of its successful bid; MT irate & sceptical] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 10 Fr Major 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]
85 May 10 Fr Major 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]
85 May 11 Sa Major 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]
85 May 15 We Major 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]
85 May 17 Fr Major Trade: Charles Powell minute to MT ("EX") [committee: summary of papers to hand: Samanala Wewa Dam; aid & trade provision; export promotion] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 17 Fr Major 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]