ABSTRACT
The centres of Europe's great agrarian importations both before and after the War were the industrial countries, paramount among which were Great Britain, Germany, France, and Italy. In 1913, Belgium and Switzerland were also important in this respect: after the War, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. As England, the greatest importer of agrarian products, was excluded from the survey people have observed the following order: Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland, and as from 1927 the two succession countries of Austria and Czechoslovakia. The German grain duties therefore achieved their object: they guaranteed to German agriculture grain prices considerably higher than those in the world market. The figures of Germany's potential agrarian tariff level in the year 1931 presented a picture of extraordinary changes, whether they be compared with the figures of 1927 or of 1913.
