Foreign trade zones (or free ports)

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Identifikator:: 1801857903

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-199077

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Foreign trade zones (or free ports)

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: United States Government Printing Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: IX, 322 S; Ill., graph. Darst

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part 1. General analysis

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32 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES The experience in Europe indicates that an excessive number of com- peting free ports in the same general trade area tends to defeat the purpose for which they are designed. On the other hand, there may be areas where it would be desirable to authorize more than one free zone within the same port of entry, which would not be permissible ander the terms of some of the bills heretofore introduced. For these reasons it is felt that the best procedure with relation to the estab- lishment of free ports, if Congress authorizes them, would be one similar to that now followed in connection with the adoption of channel improvements at our harbors. Under this plan, Congress might call for examinations to be conducted by the Bureau of Oper- etions, U. S. Shipping Board, and Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, War Department, of specified localities with a view to the establishment of free ports or foreign trade zones therein. Such examinations should include an exhaustive investigation of the navi- gation and terminal facilities; the position of the port as an outlet for exports and as a port for the receipt and distribution of imports; its advantages or disadvantages with respect to the concentration of products of foreign origin and their redistribution to other coun- tries; its relation to the established trade routes of the United States; and its influence in attracting more cargo to American ships; the rail and highway communications; and the suitability of the loca- tion for proper coordination of rail and water routes, In brief, the investigation, which should precede the authorization or establishment of a free port, should not differ materially from the port and trans- portation investigations which the Corps of Engineers and the United States Shipping Board have made, in connection with the functions devolving upon these establishments. Attention is particularly invited to section 8 of the merchant marine act of June 5, 1920, which authorizes the Shipping Board, in coopera- tion with the War Department, to undertake certain specified func- tions with the object of promoting, encouraging, and developing ports and transportation facilities in connection with water cominerce, The following is quoted from this act: That it shall be the duty of the board, in cooperation with the Secretary of War, with the object of promoting, encouraging, and developing ports and transportation facilities in connection with water commerce over which it has jurisdiction, to investigate territorial regions and zones tributary to such ports, taking into consideration the economies of transportation by rail, water, and highway, and the natural direction of the flow of commerce; to investigate the causes of the congestion of commerce at ports and the remedies applicable thereto; to investigate the subject of water terminals, including the necessary docks, warehouses, apparatus, equipment, and appliances in connection therewith, with a view to devising and suggesting the types most appropriate for different loca- tions and for the most expeditious and economical transfer or interchange of passengers or property between carriers by water and carriers by rail: to advise

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