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 2. The free ports of Europe

Collection:: Economics Books

36 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES The warehouses, some 40 in number exclusive of the two grain silos, have a total floor space of approximately 200,000 square meters. The silos have a capacity of 11,000 metric tons each. One building, having a floor space of 8,000 square meters, is devoted to office pur- poses and in addition a number of private concerns own their own buildings erected on ground leased from the corporation. The num- ber of these is around 100. The personnel connected with concerns operating in the free port numbers around 600. The tracks of the national Danish railway lines run into the free port and freight may be shipped to or delivered from any part of the continent, including Sweden, which is reached by a ferry linking to Malmo, on the opposite side of the Oresund (Sound), and all domestic points are reached by either the national or private lines. The ferry also carries passenger trains uniting Stockholm with western and central Europe through Hamburg and Berlin. The free port has its own electric power plant, whick supplies power for cranes and light. In addition, a number of incidental conven- iences, such as banking, postal and telegraph facilities, are offered patrons. ddmainistration.—The corporation exercises the powers granted under its charter through a board of directors consisting of seven members and operations are directed by a general manager assisted by a chief engineer. The general regulations governing operations are set forth in the rules for the administration of the free port promulgated by the Ministry of Public Works under date of October 19, 1894, * * #: The customs authorities exercise control over the exits from and entrances to the free port both by land and water, and as the area is inclosed by a high iron fence on the land side no necessity exists for regular patrol service during the day. The gates are closed to traffic at night time but a vigilant watch is maintained both on the water and land sides to prevent smuggling during the night. The free port itself maintains a night watch service consisting of eight men, but this service has to do with the security of goods within the free port and protection against fire rather than with the prevention of smuggling operations, although it naturally cooperates with the customs authorities in the respect last named. Operations permitted and prohibited in the free port.—General limi- tations as to permissible operations within the free port are set forth in article 19 of the concession,® but these were actually established by a law bearing the same date as the original enabling act. Under the article stated the establishment of power factories for the manu- facture of artificial manures, or margarine, is forbidden, as are also the printing of books, newspapers or music, and bookbinding, without 18ee p. 108, ep————

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