Transport critical current density J C (T,B,θ) of screen-printed, c-axis-oriented (Bi,Pb) 2 Sr 2 Ca 2 Cu 3 O x /Ag composite tape with a ceramics mono-layer core was investigated between 4.5 and 77 K in magnetic fields up to 8 T as a function of the field angle θ between B and the c axis. At low temperatures T 30 K, a shift of a peak angle from θ = 90° (i.e., B c axis) occurs in the J C versus θ curve, accompanied by an additional asymmetry. Such anomalies are explained by the history effect in the J C values on magnetic field for B c axis ascribed to the grain-boundary weak links, on the assumption that J c is dominated by the field component B = Bcos θ parallel to the c axis. At elevated temperatures, disappearance of the history effect results in a perfectly symmetrical angular dependence of J C with a peak at θ = 90°.