Répertoire des administrateurs & commissaires de société, des banques, banquiers et agents de change de France et de Belgique

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Identifikator:: 1751319059

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-129553

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Répertoire des administrateurs & commissaires de société, des banques, banquiers et agents de change de France et de Belgique

Place of publication:: Paris [u.a.]

Year of publication:: [1926]

Scope:: 1316 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Répertoire des administrateurs, commissaires, liquidateurs, curateurs, etc., de sociétés

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268 SELLING LATIN AMERICA ing in the days when the “auto da fe” was com mon and Torquemada reigned supreme. Let me illustrate by a few custom-house rulings taken at random from different Latin Ameri can ports. In a certain Central American country, clinical thermometers are admitted duty free, according to the government tariff schedule. Laboring under this belief a local druggist ordered one hundred. Imagine his surprise when the customs collector charged him the duty assessed on cut glass decanters, classing the thermometers as “etched glass containers.” Their contents—mercury—was classed as an explosive at a prohibitive rate and for “trying to evade the customs” a fine of $500.00 was added, or instead of getting the goods in, with out charges, the importer was obliged to pay $642.50 or go to jail. In a shipment of pickles, because the in voice failed to state whether they were put up in vinegar or mustard, a fine of $100.00 was collected. On a box of candy weighing five pounds,

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