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

FREE PORT OF MALMO 121 3 3 n 2 - 1= af on i=! ne } Fame () 3] 18 ng a .d 1e 18 y. t. 1S 18 10 h 4 1 vb g y re 9 In a The tariffs for discharging and loading and for all other operations Carried out by the free-port company are fixed by the local govern- Ment board, on the reports of the chamber of commerce and the com- mercial and shipping board in Malmo. In fixing the rates due care has been taken so that the shipping charges over Malmo free port shall not be higher than over any other Scandinavian port. The managing director of the company is at the same time manager of the free port and in this capacity responsible for the supervision of the regulations in force pertaining to the free port. Number of guards.—In the free harbor there is a special customs administration, divided into preventive service, customs warehouse, and customs office department with a surveyor of customs as manager. The customs attend to the surveillance of the boundaries of the free harbor area, manage clearance of such goods as are imported into the Customs zone, and collect duties due the public treasury from vessels calling at the free harbor. The guards are 22 in number. Annual cost of administration.—The annual cost of administration for the free-port company amounts to about 56,000 crowns ($15,008), and for the customs administration in the free port 140,000 crowns ($37,520). The cost of customs administration includes, in addition to salaries, rent of building to be paid to the free-port company. Operations permitted in free zone.—The distribution of goods takes Place by water to and from the free harbor, by land with train or other "onveyances or by mail. Goods may be expedited with duty paid or unpaid after clearance Performed in the free harbor. _ Business of all kinds is permitted, with the exceptions mentioned nthe regulations, a copy of whichis enclosed. An exception exists 8 to wine and spirits, a monopoly in Sweden. These goods may be disposed of in the free harbor only by wholesaler entitled thereto, that is, the Aktiebolaget Vin- & Spritcentralen. Warehousing of goods under the supervision of the free-harbor company for reship- Ment to foreign countries is, however, permitted for anyone. Retail frade in goods stored in the free harbor is not permitted. However, ater by permission from the King, sale of victuals and other ship ¢handlers’ goods may take place under the conditions prescribed by ‘he King. (See below under “Operations prohibited in free zone.) . Goods may be stored, examined, and tested, repacked and divided 0 the free harbor without payment of customs duties, transit dues, “0st, of surveillance, or other dues to the public treasury. A Special permission from the King is required for conducting indus- Mal activities in the free harbor. i Operations prohibited in free zone—Retail trade must not be car- ed on in the free harbor. Permission for industrial activities does 10t include book printing, job printing, or other like activities, which,

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