Catalogue description Colonial Office: Economic General Department and predecessors: Registered Files

This series contains files of the Economic General Department and predecessor economic departments of the Colonial Office covering a broad range of colonial economic policy, including commerce, finance, industrial development, the supply and production of food and commodities, tariffs and taxation policy. Among later files in the series, a large proportion relates to the Colonial Development Corporation, to international commercial relations, to American aid and associated questions, and to the United Nations. Also included are minutes and papers of the Committee on Aerial Survey of Forests.

Microfilm copies were created as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (1948-1997). The microfilm images have been digitised and made available online by the National Library of Australia.

For registers of to this correspondence see CO 920