Commercial relations between UK and Persian Gulf sheikhdoms

This file contains a record of the meeting of commercial officers at diplomatic service posts held in Bahrain on 29-30 March 1965 and related correspondence. Topics of discussion include a review of economic developments and commercial prospects in individual territories; television; oil companies' affairs; organisation of commercial work; chambers of commerce in the Gulf; exchange control; Gulf currency; export promotion in the Gulf; foreign and commonwealth competition; trade missions; collective market research; overseas exhibitions and fairs; failures or mistakes by British firms; joint ventures; and development projects (10).