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

206 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES Customs control of the free port is exercised by an inspector who receives an annual salary of 8,000 pesetas (about $1,300 at present exchange), and three to four carabineers, or customs guards, at salaries of 220 pesetas (about $35) a month each. Regulations relative to free port—Regulations for the operation of the free port at Almeria provide that all goods, domestic or foreign, entering the free port shall be exempt from the payment of transport fees and port dues, as well as from all national, provincial, or munici- pal taxes, except such goods as may be introduced into the munici- pality of Almeria, which shall become subject to local taxes. Foreign goods reexported from the free zone also shall be exempt from all the charges mentioned, but domestic goods exported shall pay all dues and taxes to which they would have been subject had they been directly exported. The regulations further provide that merchandise entering Spain from the free port shall be subject to customs duties and all other usual charges, the same as if directly imported, and that containers of all kinds, domestic or foreign, taken into the free zone for packing purposes, shall not be subject to the usual charges if the goods they contain are destined for exportation. Operations in free zone.—The royal order granting the concession for the free port at Almeria gave the concessionaire the right to carry on the following operations: Repacking of merchandise in different containers. Division of goods for the preparation of commercial grades. Mixture of goods, with the same object. Hulling and toasting of coffee and cacao. Working of hides and skins. Grinding of wood. Washing of wool. Extraction of oil from copra and from oleaginous seeds. All operations which, without essentially changing the character of goods; increase their value. Importation of crude petroleum products and coal for supplying vessels, after making any necessary divisions and mixtures. } The concession also covered the handling of all kinds of merchandise the importation of which into Spain is not prohibited by existing laws, and of all kinds of domestic products the exportation of which is not prohibited. Tobacco in leaf or manufactured is prohibited importé- tion into Spain except for the tobacco monopoly, and it was provided in the regulations of the free port that packages of tobacco should be sealed on entering the deposit, and that removal should be author” ized only for the exclusive use of the monopoly, or for exportation No operations were specifically prohibited in the concession OF regulations.

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