Ministry of Commerce

The Ministry of Commerce is responsible for encouraging trade and commerce between the member worlds of the Third Imperium, and collecting tariffs, taxes, duties, and fines.

Description (Specifications)

The largest component of the ministry is the Starport Authority.

• This organization operates all Imperial starports, and thus has control over the port facilities for the vast majority of interstellar trade.
• It also enforces most of the Imperial laws and regulations governing trade and commerce.
• These functions make the Starport Authority very powerful and very large.

The administrative head of the Ministry of Commerce is the Minister of Commerce.

History & Background (Dossier)

In addition to the Starport Authority, the Ministry has the following duties:

• Trading Standards Bureau: A purely advisory board, advising the Emperor on matters of trade and commerce.
  • Trade Station Commission
• Imperial Shipping Commission: Monitors the custom duties and restrictions set by member worlds, deciding if they constitue interference in Imperial trade. It also collects shipping information, records ship registries and crew licences, and acts as an advocate for starship crews in disputes over pay or working conditions.
• Imperial Treasury: Consists of three parts.
  • Office of the Mint: Issues Imperial Currency from several sector and subsector minting intstallations. Also generates a small income from the sale of commemorative currenty to collectors.
  • The Monetary board: The advisory panel to the Emperor on long term economic and monetary issues.
  • Imperial Bank
• Imperial Surplus Service
• Imperial Customs Authority
• Imperial Travel Assistance Bureau

See also

Third Imperium

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Third Imperium

• Government
  • Feudal Confederation
  • Warrant of Restoration
  • Imperial Bureaucracy
    • Civil Ministries
      • Ministry of Commerce
      • Ministry of Colonization
      • Ministry of Conservation
      • Ministry of Justice
      • Ministry of Information and Communication
      • Ministry of State
      • Ministry of Science
      • Ministry of Technology
    • Defence Ministry of the Imperium
      • Imperial High Command
      • Imperial Army (IA)
      • Imperial Navy (IN)
      • Imperial Marines (IM)
    • Office of the Emperor
    • Imperial Interstellar Scout Service (IISS)
• Imperial Leadership
  • Emperors of the Third Imperium
  • Imperial Moot
  • Imperial Nobility
• Imperial Law
  • High Laws
  • Imperial Navigation Act
  • Imperial Warrant
  • Imperial Autonomous Region
  • Imperial Calendar
  • Imperial Cultural Region
  • Imperial Currency
  • Right of Assassination
• Imperial Symbols
  • Imperial Sunburst
  • Iridium Throne
• Demographics

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Loren Wiseman. Nobles (Steve Jackson Games, 2004), 65,66.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science