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The Pig War was an ecenomic conflict between the Austro-Hungarians and Serbia which narrowly avoided a military confrontation.

In an attempt to reduce its economic dependence on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1904 Seribia began to import French rather than Austrian munitions and established a customs union with Bulgaria in 1905, making tariff-laden Austrian goods unsalble in Serbia. Long used to setting economic policy, Austria responded in 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 the Austrian rival Germany, and pressured the Austrian-administrated provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina for a trade outlet on the Adriatic Sea. Russia supported Serbia's actions, and war between Austria-Hungary and Russia was averted only because of a German ultimatum in 1909 demanding the cessation of Russian aid to Serbia.

Serbia and Austria soon after developed a new commercial treaty, but Serbia covertly stirred up trouble among the southern Slavs in newly Austrian-annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, actions that contributed to the start of World War I.

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