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D.C. Memo. No. 46.

DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE.

OVERSEAS TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.

Recommendations of Trade Missions and Delegations.

A departmental meeting was recently held under the

chairmanship of Sir Edward Crowe to consider the various

recommendations which have been made by Trade Missions and

Delegations. It appeared to the meeting that some of the

recommendations were general in character and did not provide

for any action by any Department of His Majesty's Government.

There were on the other hand a number of important recommenda-

tions where the Department of Overseas Trade should either

initiate action or draw the attention of other Departments to

them so as to ensure that there was no possibility of their

being overlooked.

The recommendations falling within the latter category have

now been grouped in such a way as to enable them to be

considered collectively, and have been incorporated in the

attached memorandum.

For instance, recommendations in regard

to group selling have been made by the Trade Mission to South

Africa, the Economic Mission to the Far East, the Trade Mission

to Egypt, the Sheffield Industrial Mission to South America, the

Scottish Woollen Trade Delegation to the U.S.A. and Canada, and

by the Leather Delegation to Northern Europe, and these

recommendations have been collated.

With a view to implementing these recommendations

wherever

practicable, the Minister is extremely anxious that

all possible action falling within the scope of the Department's

functions should be taken without delay, and for this purpose he

wishes to have the constructive guidance of the Council.

It was

largely/