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Tolls and internal customs barriers.
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Not only tariffs at political
boundaries but also internal tolls.
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Roads and waterways.
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Markets and towns.
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Customs barriers every six miles on
the best roads.
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More than 60 tolls on the Rhine by
the end of the Middle Ages.
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In France, still 1600 tolls at the time
of the French Revolution (1789).
Rembrandt, detail from
The Moneychanger
(1627),
Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
