Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XXIII. Custom-houses and tariffs

Collection:: Economics Books

CUSTOM-HOUSES 271 ceiving cases short of their invoiced contents. Complaints to the authorities did not remedy matters. Finally the thieves became bolder and the thefts more extensive, many merchants being offered their own goods for sale at prices less than they originally cost abroad. Con certed diplomatic pressure was brought to bear, and an investigation promised. The day before the official hearing, the entire block of custom houses involved was burnt, a strange coincidence being that the four car tracks in front thereof, were occupied with loaded freight cars so that the fire engines could not get near enough to stop the conflagration. All records were thus destroyed and nothing could be done, the loss, involving millions of dollars, falling as usual on the foreign merchant. Pages could be filled with similar data. All of our consular offices are cognizant of these outrages, yet nothing definite has been attempted to stop them. No matter what pre cautions the exporter takes, or how closely he follows the shipping instructions, his customer can always be victimized by these scheming

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