The Secretary for Overseas Trade was a junior Ministerial position in the United Kingdom government from 1917 until 1953, subordinate to the President of the Board of Trade.

Secretaries for Overseas Trade

• 1917: Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland
• 1919: Sir Hamar Greenwood
• 1920: Frederick George Kellaway
• 1921: Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame
• 1922: Sir William Joynson-Hicks
• March 1923: Albert Buckley
• Nov 1923: vacant
• 1924: William Lunn
• 1924: Arthur Samuel
• 1927: Douglas Hacking
• 1929: George Gillett
• 1931: Sir Edward Young
• 1931: John Colville
• 1935: Euan Wallace
• 1937: Robert Hudson
• 1940: Geoffrey Shakespeare
• 1940: Harcourt Johnstone
• 1945: Spencer Summers
• 1945: Hilary Marquand
• 1947: Harold Wilson
• 1947: Arthur Bottomley
• 1951: Henry Hopkinson
• 1952: Harry Ripley Mackeson

The office was replaced by the Minister of State for Trade on 3 September 1953.

Lists of government ministers of the United Kingdom