STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1958, sig. 109-6/50

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8s 10 - This will result in a loss of foreign exchange-free markets where the Reich is bound by clearing or settlement agreements. The customs offices also provide the agenda of the statistics of the foreign trade for the statistical office of the state.The preservation of these statistics, which on the one hand retains the trade relations between Bohemia and Moravia and the empire, on the other hand, in relation to foreign countries, is also very important for the economic policy of the empire. It cannot be missed, particularly in the present period of general economic regulation, if the customs barriers between the protectorate and the rich were removed, there would be economic obstacles which could not be left without a bearing on national income and expenditure. A systematic and sudden alignment of our excise duties, which are used on the customs tariff, with the taxes of the Reich, regardless of the rest of the tax structure, would also affect production and consumption, and even the whole system of state finances.