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 BREMEN 163 Schiff und Maschinenbau A. G.) has only one small floating dock and 8 small repair shop in the free port. - Influence of free port on the development of foreign trade.—~Although the Bremen free port was only established in 1884, the importance of Bremen in foreign trade may be said to be due in a very large degree to a “free port.” In 1884 Bremen first agreed to enter the German Zollverein (or customs union), and prior to that date the city State had constituted, in actual fact, a free port, as it did not recognize the establishment of any tariffs by the Kingdoms of Prussia or Hanover or by the German Confederation. Bremen’s importance as 8 commercial and transshipment center was therefore largely due to the fact that it was a free port. This fact was recognized by the immediate establishment of a free zone in the Bremen port simul- taneously with the entry of Bremen into the German Customs Union In 1888. Influence of the free port on the development of the merchant marine.— The development of foreign trade for Bremen has been synonymous with the development of the merchant marine. The North German Lloyd Steamship Co., the Roland Line, the Hansa Line, the Neptune Line, the Bremen-Hamburg-Africa Line, and other well-known ship- owning firms have been able to do an enormous business in freight, Probably in a large degree as a result of the freedom of Bremen from all customs tariffs before 1884 and the prompt establishment of free Ports upon the entry of Bremen in the customs union in 1888. It should be pointed out, however, that the Bremen steamship companies, particularly the North German Lloyd, have not only benefited from the free port but have been instrumental in its establishment and influential in its operation. Statistics.—Considerable quantities of goods arrive in Bremen from foreign countries which are not unloaded in the free zone. The Bremen statistical authorities do not compile separate statistics for the movement of goods through the free port alone. However, it hag been ascertained from the port authorities that practically all foreign goods arriving in Bremen come through the free zone with the exception of the following four commodities: Grain, lumber, ores and Mineral oils, and oil nuts. The total value and quantities of goods arriving at the port of Bremen by sea each year since 1899 have been obtained and the values of the four commodities in question during the same years have also been calculated and deducted therefrom. The result should give the approximate figures of the commerce through the Bremen free port. Figures can not be obtained for the Years prior to 1899, as the statistics were kept differently then and Ae useless for purposes of comparison. 3 oe oe +

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