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 DANZIG 147 Utility —No manufacturing, or merchandizing, or shipbuilding is Provided for or permitted in the free harbor. Goods unloaded from vessels may be stored in the warehouses without customs clearances, and may be repacked so long as this involves no industrial operation. A special set, of books must be maintained by the importers covering Such transactions. Ship repairs are permitted, but no plant is stalled for this purpose. From these facts it can be seen that the free harbor serves little More than a convenient form of bonded warehouse. In actual prac- tice it has been used mainly during the recent years for the handling of bulk cargoes for which no free harbor was necessary but for which the free harbor cranes offer means of handling, lacking in other parts of the port crowded by similar cargoes. This is seen in the only statis- ties of operation in the free harbor obtainable from the harbor board. According to these statistics, the following goods were handled at the free harbor during the year of 1927: 1,350,000 tons of coal, 176,000 tons of phosphate, 1,308 tons of ore, 45,000 tons of scrap metal, and 37,000 tons of merchandise. Only in the latter item is seen operations for which the free harbor is especially destined. Various importers Stock goods in the warehouses of the free harbor pending sale, when they are cleared of customs duties and delivered. Failing such sale, they are sometimes returned to the sender, when no customs manipu- “4tion is necessary. Any bonded warehouse could, however, serve the same function. Influence.—Because of the conditions outlined above, the estab- lishment of the free harbor at Danzig can not be said to have had much fluence of any kind in the development of the foreign trade of the Port of Danzig and none in the development of the Danzig merchant Marine, This may be due to its restricted functions. The importa- tion of goods for manufacture and reexport is handled by a form of rawback, whereby the need for a free harbor is eliminated. Dispatch, of vessels.—The time of loading and unloading vessels Varies with the size of the vessel, the cargo, and the number of laborers and cranes available, as in other parts of the port of Danzig where Smilar working conditions exist. The harbor board state that no Werage can be given, but report in practice that one steamer unloaded 1,620 tons of ore in 47 working hours and another 300 tons of merchan- dise i, 19 working hours. (Enclosure) R (Translated by Military Intelligence Division, General Staff) BGULATIONS CONCERNING THE FREE DISTRICT OF NEUFAHRWASSER Wo following regulations concerning the free district of Neufahrwasser are ton lay the bases of articles 107, paragraph 2, and 167, paragraph 2, of the cus- Of the . of the union of July 1, 1869 (B. G. Bl, p. 817), as well as of the resolution ederal council of October 24, 1895 (art. 565 of the minutes).

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