Soviet Union: Trade Relations Between Soviet Union and UK

A file containing documents concerning trade relations between the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. Subjects covered in the file include a proposal for a long-term Anglo-Soviet economic cooperation agreement lasting up to ten years; talks to agree quotas for Anglo-Soviet trade in 1973; and talks between the Soviet trade delegation in London and the British Department of Trade and Industry, with a view to progressively reducing restrictions on Soviet exports to the United Kingdom. Other subjects discussed in the file include the question of whether it was permissible for British diplomats to sign commercial agreements; a proposal for natural gas plants in the Soviet Union built by the British firm Humphrey and Glasgow; the removal of quotas on a range of Soviet-produced goods; the increasing penetration of the Soviet market by American and Japanese firms; and a visit to Moscow by a British industrialist, Rudy Sternberg.