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Diagram 3: Customs revenues of Venetian – German trade without goods
not subjected to the tolls
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Importations Exportations

Source: Table 3

We see two inverse curves, which makes the picture that emerged
from table 2 a bit more complicated. Rather easy to explain are the
importations: These decline until 1777 and then suddenly jump up-
wards. The shrinking before can be connected to a strong crisis in
global linen exports during the 1770s, which most likely affected this
traditional line of South German linen exportations . 1778 we see a
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strong rise, most likely by the outbreak of naval warfare, which in-
creased the attraction of the alpine passes for trade between Northern
Europe and the Mediterranean. The following stagnation on a slightly
higher level than before can be attributed to a misplaced toll-reform of
Joseph II on the Tyrolean passes . Once this was abolished in 1783,
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the importations reached a new level and stabilized there for the

55 J. Kümmerlen, Die Leinenweberei Leutkirchs, «Württembergisches Jahrbuch für
Statistik und Landeskunde», (1903), p. 172.
56 On the impact of this tariff, see: A. Bonoldi, La fiera cit., pp. 252-337.

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