STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1566, sig. 109-4/1320

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198 The Ministry of Commerce's supervisory body, the Czech Moravian import and export office and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, which is responsible for the matter on Spanish territory, would thus be abolished by the Reichswirtschaftsministerium and the German-Spanish Commission in Madrid. (b) According to the information provided by the representatives of AMEREX, Dr. Hofmann, the Board of Governors has stated that the claims for exports to Spain, which we have identified by survey of the economic groups, are not impedimented by the export authorisation procedure in question; this means that export permits are granted to all product categories which are included in our list of export requirements to Spain. (c) On the basis of negotiations between Dr.Hofmann and the Reichswirtschaftsministerium in Berlin, the Protectorate from Spain, in the year 1994l, can import goods worth RM 6 million and export goods in the same value. (e) The resumption of trade with Spain is still under discussion. lo)_France. We have addressed the German Chamber of Commerce in Paris with a request for notification of the provisions of the authorization and quota procedure and of the customs procedure there. We have forwarded the information we received from the above-mentioned Chamber to our economic groups and to the Department of Commerce. ll)_Belgium. The Ministry of Commerce has informed us of the export ban introduced in Belgium for certain categories of goods, with the request that it be informed of any difficulties encountered in importing goods from Belgium to the Protectorate in specific cases with details.