ABSTRACT
The great differentiation of the general economic structure of the European countries and of their exports has produced a great variety in the kind and number of the important European export products. Each of the few great production groups comprised goods to the value of many milliards. The A-List sought to do justice to this diversity by a comprehensive division of the three branches of production into classes and by maximal regional distribution of the different goods of the classes selected from the export statistics as being particularly important. AI comprises the five most important varieties of cereals, in addition to the two most important semi-manufactured goods of grain production: wheat and rye flour. The countries of east and south-east Europe, and in lesser degree such countries as Germany and France, were particularly interested in this class of exports.
