Papers of the committee called by the United Nations, to consider proposals for an International Trade Organisation, and to prepare the agenda for the 1947 Trade and Employment Conference. Includes: press releases; texts of opening speeches by Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; outline proposals; delegates' statements; suggested procedure; journal of the committee; memorandum by the British delegation on international employment policy; Australian views on general commercial policy; committee reports on subjects including restrictive business practices, exchange control, subsidies on manufactured goods and primary products, state trading, general commercial policy and the work of the committee.

Also includes: issues of the Empire Producer with articles on the committee.