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Llf llI) $l-rsIjii.II(ill WJIITIW&. If(fl" - !31f LhLI WrEf-1iIQ RI) (aWMW LtJJIflWiIJUIJ1JXI1IJ NiIV[Efl?#iUflhl GUIDE AND DIRECTORY FOR TRADING WITH GERMANY ECONOMIC COOPERATION ADMINISTRATION -SPECIAL MISSION TO GERMANY FRANKFURT, JUNE 1950 Distributed by Office of Small Business, Economic Cooperation Administration, Wasbington 25, D.C. FOREWORD This guide is published under the auspices of the Small Bus iness Program of the'Economic Cooperation Administration. It is intended to assistAmerican business firms, particularlysmaller manufacturingand exporting enterprises,who wish to trade or expandtheirpresent tradingrelationswith Western Germany. This guide containsa summary of economic information reg ardingWestern Germany,togetherwith data concerningGerman trade practicesand regulations,particularlythose relatingto the import of goods from the United States financed withECA funds. At the end of the manual are appendicesshowing names and add resses of agencies in Western Germany concerned rodh foreign trade and tables of principalGerman exports and imports. The ECA Special Mission to Germany has endeavored to present useful, accurate,and reliableinformationin this manual. Nothing contained herein, however, should be construed to supersede or modify existing legislationor regulationsgoverning ECA procurement or trade with Western Germany. Sources of information contained herein, such as lists of Western German trade organizations,are believed to be complete, but the Mission assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for the reliabilityof any agencies named. ADDENDUM The following information has been received -during the printing of this manual: 1. American businessmen interested in trading with Germany may consult the newly formed German-American Trade Promotion Company (Ge sellschaftzurFdrderungdesdeutsch-amerikanischen Handels), located at Schillerstrasse I, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is understood that this com pany is preparing to open offices-in New York and other American cities. -2. The office of the Consulate General for the Federal- Republic of Germany has'been recently opened at 745 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, NeW4 York. I TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Sources of Information on Trading with Western Germany 7 Procedures for German Imports Procured with ECA Funds . 13 Foreign Trade . ................... 19 Foreign Trade Procedures.......... .. * . 21 Government in Western Germany ............ 28 General Economic Information about Western Germany * . 31 Appendices . ........ 35 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY LAND I - EUiDM .0. elR l I flSIN MttI~-Vzt1flQu4I B ggATHin No~ 04 - LAND BAYERN PASSAUJ ISAUAR3&1 ua * Pr ; 4 13M041 e, I SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON TRADING WITH WESTERN GERMANY This guide is intended to assist American businessmen who are interested in trading with Western Germany.* Since most of Western Germany's imports from the United States are now financed with dollar aid administered by ECA, special attention has been given to procedures relating to such imports as well as to Germen sources of information not now readily avaiable in the United States. There are, however, many other sources of infor mation regarding trade with Western Germany which should be consulted. Some of the sources contained in this manual and else where are described below. GEIMAN SOURCES OF INFORMATION - Western Germany has a highly organized system of Chambers of Industry and Commerce and Trade Associations. Industrie und Handelskammern, or Chambers of Industry and Commerce, are established at city level and are associated at Land level in Arbeitagemeinsdaften,such as the Arbeiisgemeinsdzaft der Bay erischenlHK.These Chambers of Industry and Commerce are also associated in one central organization, Deutsdzer Industrie- und Handelstag. Industrial associations, concerned with particular industries, are variously located in different cities and are federally asso ciated in the Bundesverbandder Deutsdzen Industrie. There are also various other associations, representing wholesalers and for eign traders, handicraft industries, trade representatives, and -brokers. For purposes of dealing-with matters relating to foreign trade, the various organizations named above are associated and * The term Western Germany as used herein means the Federal Republic of Germany and the Western Sectors of Berlin. 7 represented in the Arbeitsgemeinsdzaft Auflenhandel der Deut sdzen Wirtsdiaft. The address of this organization and the names and addresses of its members are given in Appendix B of this manual. Appendix C gives the addresses according to-city of the Indus&ie- und Handelskammer,and Appendix D gives the names and addresses of Land groupings of these- Chambers. Finally, Appendix E gives the names and addresses of industrial associa tions-belonging to the Bundesoerbandder DeutschenIndustrie. American businessmen may find it useful to correspond with any or all of the above named organizations, depending upon the information desired. Questions regarding firms or trade in a particular city or locality may be' addressed'to local Industrie und Handelskammern. The Chamber of Commerce for the Western Sector of Berlin is the Gesd'tlfisstelleBerlin, at Berlin-Wilmersdorf;[Fehrbelliner Platz3. There is also an American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, devoted to the promotion of international trade,-whose executive offices are in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Kaiserallee187. Branch offices of this organization are located as follows: Frankfurt Branch, Frahikfurtam Main, Wiesenau 12 Cologne Branch, K6In, Deidzmannhaus Hamburg Branch, Hamburgif, Dovenhof 118-122 Questions -regarding -German governmental regulations and procedures affecting -a particular transaction may be addressed to the appropriate Fadstdellen,which are advisory councils to the Ministry of Economics, as described in the Chapter on Procedures for German Imports Procured with ECA: Names and addresses of the Fachstellenare given in Appendix A of this manual. Correspondence relating to particular transactions under an ECA procurement anthorization may also be addressed directly to the ERP Kontor of the Ministry for the Marshall Plan, whose address is ERP Kontor,Bundesministeriumfir den Marshallplan, Bad Godesberg,Pliftersdorf,Titrmstrale5. The Bundes Anzeiger-und Offenflidier Anzeiger fflr das Ver einigie Wirisdzaftsgebiet is the official gazette of the German Federal Government. Official announcements regarding availabi lity of foreign exchange for imports, including ECA procurement authorizations, as authorized from time to time by the Einfuhr 8. ausscup? (German Import Committee), ar6 published in this gazette, which is issued five times weekly. The Bundes Anzeiger is published by the Ministry of Justic at Bonn. It is distributed through offices at the following addressesi Bonn, Rosenburg, Venusberg; or Kd1n, Pressehaus,Breite Strafe 70; or Frankfurt am Main, Gutleutstrafle5. UNITED STATES CONSULATES GENERAL IN WESTERN GERMANY There are six United States Consulates General in Western Germany, situated in the principal cities, including a Supervisory Consulate General in Frankfurt. Most of these Consulates main tain commercial sections and arein a position to supply commer cial and economic information toAmerican businessmen regarding the area in whid -they are located. These Consulates regularly send trade information to the Department of Commerce for dis semination in the United States. American businessmen may communicate directly with the Supervisory Consulate General in Frankfurt or with the Consulates General in other cities to obtain the particular information desired. In order to facilitate hanidling of inquiries, communications may be addressed initially to the Supervisory Consulate General in Frankfurt. The following are the addresses of the United States Consulate offices in Western Germany: U.S. Consulate General, Frankfurt am Main, Bockenheimer Anlage 11 U.S. Consulate General, Bremen, Meinkenstrale 1 U.S. Consulate General, Hamburg, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 U.S. Consulate General, Miinchen, Ludwigstrafle 28 U.S. ConsulateGeneral, Stuttgart,VillaIauff, Gerokstrafle. UNITED STATES SOURCES OF INFORMATION Services for supplying information concerning all aspects of foreign trade and methods of conducting trade are provided in the United States by the Department of Commerce. Such infor mation can be obtained by communicating with the Office of International Trade, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 9 and with field offices of the Department, which are situated in the principle of the United States, as listed below. There are many publications of the Department of Commerce which should be consulted by American businessmen who desire information regarding foreign.trade with Western Germany. The Foreign Commerce Weekly, published by the Office of Inter national Trade, contains current information and news regarding economic and commercial matters in foreign countries and de velopments in the field of international trade, arranged according to countries and commodities involved. Bulletins on specialized subjects are published in the Inter national Reference Service series, issued by the Office of Inter national Trade. Two such bulletins relating to Western Germany axe the following: Preparing Shipments to Germany '(Docu mentation,Consularand Customs Requirements), Vol. VII-, No. 8, 1950, of the International Reference Service; and Germany- Summary of Basic Economic Information, Vol. VI, No. i32, De cember,1949, of the International Reference Service. DoingBusiness