Foreign trade zones (or free ports)

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Part 1. General analysis

Collection:: Economics Books

FOREIGN TRADE ZONES The elimination of the customs restrictions applying directly to sntry and clearance of vessels and cargo and to the imposition of duties, makes it necessary to provide suitable barriers between the free zone and customs territory. Goods moving from the free zone into customs territory become subject to all of the laws affecting imports. It may be said, therefore, that neither the free port nor the foreign trade zone is wholly free to commerce and shipping, but is free only to the extent prescribed in each case. Some writers have referred to the free port as a zone which from a customs point of view occupies the same position as a foreign country, but in view of the limitations above indicated with respect to prohibited landings this definition is too broad. The definition given by the United States Tarif Commission in its report on Free Zones in the United States is as follows: A free zone may be defined as an isolated, inclosed and policed area, in or adjacent to a port of entry, without resident population, furnished with the necessary facilities for lading and unlading, for supplying fuel and ship's stores, for storing goods and for reshipping them by land and water; an area within which goods may be landed, stored, mixed, blended, repacked, manufactured, and reshipped without payment of duties and without the intervention of cus- toms officials. It is subject equally with adjacent regions to all the laws relating to public health, vessel inspection, postal service, labor conditions, immigration, and, indeed, everything except the customs. Parts of the above are applicable at all free ports, but the definition as a whole is inapplicable to many of them. As will be evident from data contained in this report, the facilities available and the opera- tions permitted at the various free ports of Europe differ widely. At some of them the area is too limited to permit certain of the operations referred to, while at others some of these operations are prohibited. The definition may be accepted, however, as a correct statement of the facilities provided and the various activities per- mitted at the free ports of the world considered collectively. In view of the wide differences in the physical conditions, the terminal developments, the presence or absence of railroad connections, the position of the port in national and international trade, and the requirements of national and local industries, it is manifestly imprac- ticable for all free ports to adopt a common plan of operation. The basic purpose of all, however, is the same, i. e., to facilitate the import and reexport of goods of foreign origin either in their original condition or with permissible changes of form. A definition applicable to all the principal free ports would have to be expressed in general terms, adhering quite closely to the major purposes, and omitting any state- ment of facilities. The following is an example of such a definition: A free port is a segregated area in which goods not otherwise prohibited may be unloaded and stored, subject to varying restrictions as to sorting, grading, repacking, manipulation, and manufacture, and in which such goods or authorized

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Foreign trade zones (or free ports)

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation