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

122 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES because of more favorable conditions, are likely to harm similar activities in the domestic market or are of a nature to cause danger or inconvenience to the establishments or goods stored there. Goods which, according to regulations in force, for the prevention of infectious human or animal diseases, are subject to certain protec- tive provisions or which are entirely prohibited importation into the country, are also prohibited to be imported into the free port or, as the case may be, are subject to the same protective measures as prescribed in the eustoms harbor. Dispatch secured in unloading vessels, equipment, etc.—QOwing to the fact, that vessels calling at the free port from foreign ports, are not subject to customs examination, thus permitting loading or unloading to be begun immediately after the arrival of the vessel and allowing, after landing, prompt disposition of the goods by the proper consignee, quicker dispatch can be obtained for both vessel and goods than in the customs harbor. In addition, the free harbor is provided with the most modern equipment for the loading and unloading of goods and with other arrangements to facilitate the work, for instance, hoists in warehouses, weighing machines for wholesale quantities, ete., all of which contribute to quicker dispatch in the free harbor than in the customs harbor. The free port is equipped with nine traveling cranes of from 2¥% to 5 tons capacity worked by electricity. Of these cranes six of 2% tons are situated on the quay in front of and east of the warehouse. They are fitted with adjustable jibs. By means of these cranes goods can be discharged direct from the vessel to any of the floors or the base- ment of the warehouse. The other three cranes, each of 3 to 5 tons capacity, are erected on the quay west of the warehouse and are constructed for discharging cargo with or without automatic grabs. Reconsignment and transshipment trade—The free harbor is still in an early stage of development and neither the transshipment nor reconsignment trade has yet reached notable proportions. According to the director of the free port company, the traffic of this kind hitherto practiced has not been of a regular character, and therefore statements relative to country of origin and distribution would be of no importance. He adds that when the economic situation among the Baltic States and Russia has become more stabilized it may be expected that the free harbor of Malmo will be made use ofrto a much greater extent as a storage and transshipment port. Shipbuilding, ship repair, and manufacturing in free zone.~—~Neither shipbuilding, ship repair, or manufacturing is carried on in the free zone, although such activities exist in the neighboring customs harbor. Influence of free port on the development of foreign trade and of the merchant marine,—Partly because of the reasons previously men-

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