ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses, country by country, the statistical presentation of the potential tariff levels of thirteen pre-War and fifteen post-War states in Europe. For some countries, comparisons have also been made between the potential tariff levels of 1913, 1927, and 1931 in addition to comparisons between the rates of duties for the same years. The underlying assumption which governed the classification of the whole of the material—both the grouping of the countries and the subdivision of goods—was that basic conception of an agrarian "Border" Europe and an industrial "Central" Europe, which was first apprehended in its full significance by Professor A. Weber, and subsequently investigated in all its aspects by Delaisi, Schlier, Gaedicke and von Eynern. As regards the classification of the countries investigated into the two groups of industrial and agrarian countries, only the composition of their exports could be decisive for an inquiry into tariff levels and their significance for Europe's foreign trade connections.
