Pig War (1906–08)




For other uses, see Pig War (disambiguation).





The Pig War (Serbian: Свињски рат/Svinjski rat), or Customs War, (Царински рат/Carinski rat) was a trade war between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia in 1906 to 1908 in which the Habsburgs unsuccessfully imposed a customs blockade on Serbian pork.




Contents






  • 1 Background


  • 2 History


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References





Background


At the beginning of the 20th century, Serbia was economically a satellite of the Habsburgs, its major export being pork, most of which was bought by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When Serbia started trying to evade economic and political control by the Habsburgs and build links with other countries, particularly Bulgaria and France, the Hungarian government decided to punish the Serbs with economic sanctions. Specifically, in an attempt to reduce its economic dependence on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Serbia began to import French rather than Austrian munitions in 1904 and established a customs union with Bulgaria in 1905, ending the sale of tariff-laden Austrian goods in Serbia.



History


Long used to setting economic policy, Austria responded in April 1906 by closing its borders to Serbian pork. Serbia refused to bow to Vienna, gained French investment to build new packing plants for international trade, began to order materials from Austria's rival Germany
and pressured the Austrian-administrated provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina for a trade outlet on the Adriatic Sea. That caused Austria to give up by March 1908, as shown by the trade statistics of the period in question, published in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:












































Foreign Trade of the Kingdom of Serbia
Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 Edition: Volume 24, pp. 688
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908

Exports (thousand GBP):
 2,486
 2,879
 2,864
 3,259
 3,019

Imports (thousand GBP):
 2,437
 2,224
 1,773
 2,823
 3,025

Trade Balance (thousand GBP):
 49
 655
 1,091
 436
 -6

Exports/Imports (%):
Rounded to the nearest %
 102
 129
 162
 115
 100

Russia supported Serbia's actions, and war between Austria-Hungary and Russia was averted only because of a German ultimatum in 1909 that demanded the end of Russian aid to Serbia.



See also


  • Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881


References


  • Misha Glenny, The Balkans 1804-1999: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers (London: Granta, 1999), pp. 281–2.



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