ABSTRACT
In order to calculate the figures of actual tariff levels the official trade statistics of twenty-four European countries have been checked with regard to prices, quantities, and total values of their most important export goods, and the height of duties upon them in the most important export markets has been computed. In the case of any country, therefore, of which the exports largely consisted of these goods or whose exports went much to overseas, the proportion of the selected goods to the total exports must be small. It should be pointed out that 1929 has been chosen as the first post-War year for the tables in the text which elucidate the structures of exports, because it was not until this year that most European countries reached their maximum exports before the crisis, so that the effects of the crisis up to 1931 could be better inferred in comparison with the figures of 1929.
