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

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32 -7- groups. b/ Foreign trade policy. l./slovakia. In the matter of the new regulation_of the price equal with Slovakia / see the last Monct report, page 5/6 / we inform you that at the interministerial consultation, in which the board and the speaker of our trade peditian department participated, some questions were clarified, which we mentioned in detail in the last monthly report/pages 7 and 8. On the basis of the decision, the following exceptions to the general rule were laid down, as is the case with the requirements of our commercial relations with Slovakia: I. According to the declaration of the Slovak Minister of Economic Affairs dated 6 June 1940, the Slovak National Bank did not follow the paying authorities in the Glearing, but the Slo-Wak Economic Ministry. In the case of these products, which we have already mentioned in our last monthly report, the exporters in Slovakia will, as before, calculate a 14% deduction from the invoiced amount, i.e. not 19%, and will receive as before a 16% increase from the paid amount, not 23%. The local companies will therefore proceed in such cases in such a way that for goods_in_export values_of_lQ_K_in-the_invoice_either_the_