Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce

Certain international organizations and United States agencies with international programs prepare summaries and compilations, essentially of the data taken from the national official publications. The principal source of such information, specifically on chemicals in foreign nations, was for a number of years and until the end of 1950 the Office of International Trade of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce since the beginning of 1951 the major part of the program of commodities information has been in the National Production Authority. 

U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Textile Reading List A Partial... 

TWEA s most dramatic departure from past precedent, believed its authors, was Section 6, the provision that created the Alien Property Custodian (APC). Until just before TWEA passed in October 1917, legislators had plaimed to put the APC in Redfield s Department of Commerce (within its Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce), but their final wording left it to the president s discretion. Wilson instead placed the APC at the head of a new executive agency, the Office of Alien Property, which would report directly to him. 

Clarence M. Woolley to Redfield, April 1, 1919 Baruch to George N. Peek, March 18, 1919 Wigglesworth to Department of Commerce, March 19, 1919 Wigglesworth to Burwell S. Cutler, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, April 21, 1919, NARA, RG 151, 232 Dyestuffs (Germany), box 1036. 

The Treaty of Versailles and After, 380, 460, 516-18. A useful chronology of developments in reparations is U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, The Reparation Problem, 1918-1924 (1924). 

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