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Exchange Controls Abolished

Great Britain · Economy / Currency. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1979

Geoffrey Howe23 October 1979

London · Economy / Currency

Howe abolishes remaining exchange controls on the movement of capital.

Names involved

Geoffrey Howe

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