Choose the given statement is true/false:

A merchant travelling from Hamburg to Nuremberg in the first of the nineteenth century had to pass through many customs barriers to sell his goods.

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The given statement is true.
In the first half of the 19th century, merchants travelling from Hamburg to Nuremberg had to pass 11 customs barriers to sell their goods, and the merchant also had to pay 5% of customs duty on each custom barrier. The custom duty charged on each custom barrier was based on the weight and measures of goods. Therefore, every time a merchant had to spend some time on customs barriers to calculate the customs duty charge according to the weight and measurements of each region. It was a time-consuming and complicated method.
Hence the statement is true.

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