Foreign Trade

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services.In most countries, such trade represents a significant share of gross domestic product (GDP). While international trade has existed throughout history (for example Uttarapatha, Silk Road, Amber Road, scramble for Africa, Atlantic slave trade, salt roads), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries. Carrying out trade at an international level is a complex process when compared to domestic trade. When trade takes place between two or more nations …

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24 May 2022 English

Content in British Society, 1939-1951 is arranged in collections corresponding to the archives from which they were sourced. You can read more about the archive materials selected for this resource …

wages and financial policies, home consumption, foreign trade, and export surpluses. From the beginning of


4 May 2022 English

State leaders in Eastern Europe, Berlin Mayors, United Kingdom Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries, Politicians and Statesmen, Ambassadors, Other Eastern European Figures

1960 Heinrich Rau East Germany Minister of Foreign Trade 1955 - 1961 Antal Apró Hungary Deputy Premier


1 January 2017 English

“The socialist system has won in our country,” Antonín Novotný, the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, triumphantly declared at a national party conference on July 5, 1960, and …

Review for 1961) and FO 371/171894 (on Romanian foreign trade initiatives in 1963). handwritten comment expresses


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file of correspondence and press reports concerning political relations between East Germany and African nations. The documents cover visits to East Germany by leading politicians from Burundi, Zambia, Lesotho, …

Brief GDR foreign trade information in Zimbabwe The first information days on GDR foreign trade were opened information days leading representatives of GDR foreign trade enterprises will give lectures and hold seminars


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the economic situation of Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union. The documents include a number of studies on the financial problems facing …

FRG agree with the UK's comments on the GDRs foreign trade balance in 1981 (paragraph k of the JIC)t and preliminary assessment of the prospe-./i a for foreign trade and payments confirms this. Continuing large



The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file of correspondence and reports concerning Anglo-Bulgarian relations, focussing on a visit to Bulgaria by Malcolm Rifkind, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The documents cover the …

expect Mr Rifkind to call on the Minister of Foreign Trade (or his deputy) in Plovdiv: both w i l l be September a.m. - meeting with the Minister of Foreign Trade, Mr Khristo Kristov in Plovdiv - return to


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 Russian

A file containing documents concerning visas for British businessmen in Moscow. Subjects covered in the file include the ending of the issuing of multiple-entry visas to representatives of British banks …

statement that a commission of is deducted when Foreign Trade Bank travellers cheques are issued seems to RESTRICTED r % 4 # I I MINISTRY OP FOREIGN TRADE MOSCOW OF THE USSR 22 NOVEMBER 1982 Dear convertible ready cash from accounts at the USSR Foreign Trade Bank. We should like to convey to you the effected for freely convertible currency, USSR Foreign Trade Bank travellers cheques and for travellers and banks receive from accounts at the USSR Foreign Trade Bank | . /ready ... I < » - 2 - « rea^^cash



The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file of correspondence and reports concerning a proposed Anglo-East German agreement on economic and industrial cooperation. The documents include drafts of the proposed agreement, which provides for the development …

markets ' ••' ' % I Cooperation of GDR foreign trade enterprises and combinates with British companies Cooperation in third markets « Cooperation of GDR foreign trade enterprises and combinâtes with British companies this year, the GDR Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Dr Beil, discussed with Peter Corley, Under third markets ... .. • : Cooperation of GDR foreign trade enterprises and combinâtes with British companies strongly pushed by Dr Beil. The GDR Ministry of Foreign Trade produced a draft document which differed in


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