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because of more favorable conditions, are likely to harm similar activi- 
ties in the domestic market or are of a nature to cause danger or incon- 
venience to the establishments or goods stored there. Goods are not 
to be stored openly and exhibited to the public. Any goods, free of 
duty or dutiable, which by regulations in force for the prevention of 
Infection of diseases, human or animal, are subject to certain protec- 
tive measures or which are entirely prohibited to be imported into the 
tountry, are also prohibited to be imported into the free port, or as the 
tase may be, are subject to the same protective measures as pre- 
scribed in the customs harbor. Foreign goods imported into the free 
port may not be consumed or used within the free zone unless ordinary 
duty has been paid. No building or set of rooms within the free 
zone may be used as private residence. 
Dispatch secured in unloading vessels.—The free port in Gothenburg 
does not offer any special discharging or loading facilities as compared 
With the customs harbor, for which reason the dispatch is the same 
In either harbor for a vessel berthed at the quay. The only advantage 
that the free port offers in connection with the discharging or loading 
of vessels is that the port is fenced in, for which reason the work on 
Quays, etc., is not disturbed by passers-by or onlookers. 
Reconsignment and transshipment trade.—As the free port is still in 
father an early state of development one can not say that the recon- 
Signment and transshipment trade has yet reached any considerable 
extent, but it is evident that business men, who prior to the inaugura- 
tion of the free port were compelled to use the customs harbor, have 
how been able to build up rather an important transshipment trade. 
So far, owing to the still rather unstable economic situation in the 
Baltic States and Russia, this traffic has only been directed to Norway, 
Denmark, and Finland, and the goods thus shipped mostly consist of 
dried fruit, tea, coffee, and textiles. When economic conditions in 
the Baltic States and Russia are normal again it is fully believed that 
the reconsignment and transshipment traffic via the free port in 
Gothenburg will reach large dimensions and the extension of the port 
referred to, for which the city of Gothenburg has made plans, is then 
®xpected to be carried out. 
Shipbuilding and repairs and manufacturing.—So far neither ship- 
building nor ship repair are carried on in the free zone, but there is a 
all factory for the manufacturing of silk neckties and two work- 
Shops for the making of sails. The latter are chiefly occupied in the 
Manufacture of tarpaulins of American cloth. 
Influence of free port on the development of foreign trade and of the 
Merchant marine. — While the inauguration of the free port has proven 
to be of considerable advantage to a number of American and other 
foreign exporters and to some Swedish importers, the operations 
®onducted in it can hardly be said to have had any large influence