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This universal obstruction slowly yielded to a Zollverein, or Customs-Union, under which these barriers were obliterated and customs were collected on the external frontiers.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “This universal obstruction slowly yielded to a Zollverein, or Customs-Union, under which these barriers were obliterated…”
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Sumner explains how the Zollverein helped to eliminate trade barriers among German states.
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