Economic. Original correspondence, 1934-1953

Component identifier:

Series CO 852

Extent:

240 items

Content Summary:

Files of the Economic General Department and predecessors of the Colonial Office. The registered files cover a broad range of colonial economic policy, including commerce, finance, industrial development, the supply and production of food and commodities, tariffs and taxation policies.

The Australian Joint Copying Project filmed selected extracts from the listed files. Subjects covered in the filming include: commodities; colonial tariffs; import quotas; colonial timber/forestry; economic survey of the colonial empire; shipping; defence finance regulations; colonial customs and excise legislation; war trade with respect to commodities, food supplies, shipping, import control and licences, oil supplies; war loans; United Kingdom and United States reciprocal aid; sugar, minerals and metals and fish production.

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