Decree Reich Minister of Finance and Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture, under emergency decrees of the Reich President

Decree on Changes to Customs Duties

Verordnung über Zolländerungen

Signed by Hugenberg as agriculture minister and by the finance minister, the decree raised the duties on imported livestock, meat and lard from 15 February, as trade treaties with Sweden, the Netherlands and Yugoslavia that had held them down expired. Per 100 kilograms of live weight, the duty on cattle rose from 27 to 50 Reichsmarks, on sheep from 22.50 to 45 and on pigs to 50; the three rates on meat went from 45, 60 and 120 to 100, 150 and 280, and the duty on lard from 12.50 to 50, with a rate of 10 for lard used under licence to make margarine. The government presented the lard duty as help for German pig farmers; the agriculture minister himself expected lard prices to rise.

Dated: Wednesday 8 February 1933
Published in: Reichsgesetzblatt Teil I, no. 12, Wednesday 15 February 1933, pp. 55–56
Citation: RGBl. I S. 55
In force: Wednesday 15 February 1933

On the day pages

Signed Day 10, Wednesday 8 February 1933

RGBl. I S. 55, first of 2 pages. Commons record

The text

Verordnung über Zolländerungen.

Decree on Changes to Customs Duties.

Vom 8. Februar 1933*).

Of 8 February 1933*).

Auf Grund der Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutze der Wirtschaft vom 9. März 1932 Vierter Teil (Zolländerungen und vorläufige Anwendung zweiseitiger Wirtschaftsabkommen (§ 1 Nr. 1 (Reichsgesetzbl. I S. 121, 126) sowie auf Grund der Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten über außerordentliche Zollmaßnahmen vom 18. Januar 1932 (Reichsgesetzbl. I S. 27) wird folgendes verordnet:

On the basis of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the Economy of 9 March 1932, Part Four (changes to customs duties and provisional application of bilateral economic agreements), § 1, no. 1 (Reich Law Gazette I pp. 121, 126), and on the basis of the Decree of the Reich President on Extraordinary Customs Measures of 18 January 1932 (Reich Law Gazette I p. 27), the following is decreed:

§ 1 Der Zolltarif ist in folgender Fassung anzuwenden:

§ 1 The customs tariff shall be applied in the following version:

1. In Tarifnr. 103 (Rindvieh) ist der Zollsatz „lbd 27“ zu ändern in „lbd 50“.

1. In tariff no. 103 (cattle) the duty ‘live weight 27’ is to be changed to ‘live weight 50’.

2. In Tarifnr. 104 (Schafe) ist der Zollsatz „lbd 22,50“ zu ändern in „lbd 45“.

2. In tariff no. 104 (sheep) the duty ‘live weight 22.50’ is to be changed to ‘live weight 45’.

3. Die Tarifnr. 106 erhält folgende Fassung:

3. Tariff no. 106 receives the following wording:

106 | Schweine | lbd 50 | lbd 100

106 | Pigs | live weight 50 | live weight 100

4. In Tarifnr. 108 (Fleisch usw.) ist die Anmerkung 3 (Bis auf weiteres treten an die Stelle der Zollsätze usw.) zu streichen; in den Abs. 1 bis 3 sind die Zollsätze „45“, „60“ und „120“ zu ändern in „100“, „150“ und „280“.

4. In tariff no. 108 (meat, etc.) note 3 (‘Until further notice, in place of the duties’, etc.) is to be deleted; in paras. 1 to 3 the duties ‘45’, ‘60’ and ‘120’ are to be changed to ‘100’, ‘150’ and ‘280’.

5. In Tarifnr. 126 (Schmalz usw.) ist der Zollsatz „12,50“ zu ändern in „50“ und folgende Anmerkung anzufügen:

5. In tariff no. 126 (lard, etc.) the duty ‘12.50’ is to be changed to ‘50’ and the following note is to be added:

Anmerkung. Schmalz und schmalzartige Fette zur Herstellung von Margarine auf Erlaubnisschein unter Überwachung der Verwendung | 10 | 75

Note. Lard and lard-like fats for the manufacture of margarine, under licence and with supervision of their use | 10 | 75

§ 2 Diese Verordnung tritt am 15. Februar 1933 in Kraft.

§ 2 This decree comes into force on 15 February 1933.

Berlin, den 8. Februar 1933.

Berlin, 8 February 1933.

Der Reichsminister der Finanzen Graf Schwerin von Krosigk

The Reich Minister of Finance Count Schwerin von Krosigk

Der Reichsminister für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft Hugenberg

The Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture Hugenberg

*) Veröffentlicht im Deutschen Reichsanzeiger und Preußischen Staatsanzeiger Nr. 34 vom 9. Februar 1933.

*) Published in the Deutscher Reichsanzeiger und Preußischer Staatsanzeiger no. 34 of 9 February 1933.

About this text

The full text is given. Transcribed in full from the RGBl. scans (issue 12, pp. 55–56), including the gazette’s footnote; no other transcription was found to compare. The two tariff lines printed as table rows (no. 106 and the note to no. 126) are given with their columns separated by vertical bars. The preamble’s parentheses are unbalanced in the gazette and are kept as printed; the pfennig figures printed in small type (‘22,50’, ‘12,50’) are given in ordinary figures.

The English translation was made for this site and is not an official translation. ‘lbd’ (lebend) marks a duty charged on live weight. The gazette prints two figures in the new line for pigs and in the note on margarine lard, filling the two rate columns of the tariff schedule; the decree does not name the columns, and the translation does not guess. Quotation marks around duties are the gazette’s own.

German laws and decrees are official works and not protected by copyright (§ 5 UrhG).

Terms

Zollsatz: The rate of duty. The German tariff charged most agricultural imports by weight, in Reichsmarks per 100 kilograms (Doppelzentner).
lbd: Abbreviation of ‘lebend’ (live): the duty on livestock was charged on the animals’ live weight.
Verordnung zum Schutze der Wirtschaft (9. März 1932): An emergency decree of the Brüning government whose fourth part allowed the Reich Government to change customs duties and to apply bilateral trade agreements provisionally without a vote of the Reichstag.
Erlaubnisschein: A licence issued by the customs authorities allowing goods to be imported at a reduced rate for a stated use, here the making of margarine, under supervision.

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Sources

Reichsgesetzblatt 1933 Teil I, Nr. 12 (15. Februar 1933), S. 55–56 (Reichsministerium des Innern; scan on Wikimedia Commons)

Gazette scans: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.