Croatia has blocked cargo transport from Serbia since last week, shutting all but one of its crossings in order to prevent more migrants entering the country after a surge of almost 45,000 people arrived in a week.
The Croatian authorities are angry that Serbia has been bussing migrants straight to its border after Hungary sealed its southern border with a metal fence.
Croatia in turn sends them north across its own border with Hungary, which passes them on to Austria, but Zagreb says it cannot cope with the pace of the influx.
The border closures have damaged the economy in Serbia, which is a conduit for cargo to western and central Europe.
But Croatia's interior minister said the ban did not apply to Serbian people.
The Serbian authorities have responded by banning cargo traffic from Croatia.
Amid escalating tension, Serbia's foreign ministry said the measures were "discriminatory" and "can only be compared with measures taken in the past, during the fascist Independent Croatia", referring to the Nazi puppet state proclaimed in Croatia in 1941, which sided with Berlin
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