'REPORT ON THE TRADE AND INDUSTRY OF PERSIA to June, 1923.' [‎2v] (4/26)

DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE.
COMMERCIAL REPRESENTATION ABROAD.
To foster British overseas trade, the Department lias developed and
controls the following services of Commercial Intelligence Officers :
1. In the Empire.
The Trade Commissioner and Imperial Trade Correspondent Services.
At the present time there are 12 Trade Commissioners’ offices. These
are situated, four in Canada (Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg) ;
two in South Africa (Johannesburg, Capetown) ; two in Australia (Mel
bourne, Sydney) ; one in India (Calcutta—to cover also Cevlon) ; and one
each in New Zealand (Wellington), British East Africa ' (Nairobi) and
British West Indies (Trinidad).
The Trade Commissioners in the Dominions have the assistance of
Imperial Trade correspondents at a number of important centres.
In \ arious parts of the Empire in which at present there are no com
missioners, there are correspondents with whom the Department deals
direct.
2. In Foreign Countries.
(«) The Commercial Diplomatic Service attached to the British
Diplomatic Missions.
this service consists of between thirty and forty posts in all, and the
officers of the service are stationed in all the moi'e important foreign
markets of the world. The members of the Commercial Diplomatic Service
are styled Commercial Counsellors ” in the highest grade, and " Com
mercial Secretaries in the three lower grades. They are members of the
staff of the British Embassy or Legation in which they serve.
The Commercial 1 )iplomatic Officer has general supervision over the
< ommercial work of the consular offices in his area, and, with the co
operation of these two services, a complete network of Government com
mercial representatives is thrown over foreign countries.
The Department is represented in Persia by Mr. R. H. Hadow M C.,
Secretary in Charge of Commercial Affairs, Tehran.
(b) The British Consular Service.
Ihis service has been reorganized. Particular attention has been
given to the commercial side of consular work.
Members of British firms are urged to call upon the Department’s
representative abroad when they visit an overseas country. It is also
important that they should make a point of their representatives abroad
keeping in close touch with the Department’s officers.
A handbook giving fuller details of the Overseas Organization of the
J epartment can be obtained on application at the Department of Overseas
Trade, do, Old Queen Street, S.W.l.
NOTE.
It should be understood that the views expressed in annual reports arc the
vii ws of the officers themselves, and are not necessarily in all respects the views
of the Department.