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The pipe embargo was an embargo imposed on the states of the Eastern Bloc - especially on the Soviet Union - which from 1963 almost completely prevented the export of large pipes for the construction of gas and oil pipelines . The pipe embargo was announced in the Federal Republic of Germany on December 18, 1962 and implemented a resolution of the NATO Council which, during the Cold War, pursued the policy of pinpricks in order to hinder the development of the Eastern Bloc as much as possible. In particular, the construction of the friendship oil pipeline was to be prevented, which was supposed to supply the GDR with crude oil from the Soviet Union. The completion of this and other pipeline projects was only delayed.

The embargo had far-reaching consequences for the development of east-west relations, as it made economic relations with eastern trading partners extremely difficult because contracts already signed by the companies Mannesmann , Phoenix-Rheinrohr and Hoesch could no longer be fulfilled. The embargo lasted until November 1966, because apart from the damage it had caused to the western world as a result of the loss of confidence, it had no significant impact. For West German companies, the direct export of pipes to the Soviet Union got going again with the pipe natural gas business that had started in 1970 .

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