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 BARCELONA 209 Xi) i 0 TL ’ i al Voor We 2. IIIT v3R1 IIIT Imports (in metric tons) Total mports mports of coal, oke, bri- quets 4,916 £9, 817 34, 088 12. 510 30, 497 18, 903 13, 614 23 884 Total sxports 250, 302 20, 410 132, 450 146, 097 Exports (in metric tons) (ron-ore axports Salt axnorts Grape BXDOrts 135, 361 132, 112 88, 707 305, 004 47, 545 19, 695 2134 45,952 51, 105 22,092 30, 033 Esparto exports 12, 382 17,917 12, 050 13, 791 mn ne 16 "80 1ng 7s 3 2 9 2 3 LS uv 0 7 a 3 0 iL 5H 10 -he a8 Te mg -he oh ab 764 THE FREE PORT OF BARCELONA, SPAIN [From Frank Anderson Henry, American consul, Barcelona, Spain] Introductory.—Barcelona has at present in operation only a free deposit (deposito franco) but is planning the establishment in the hear future of a free port (puerto franco) in the fullest sense of the word. This will involve the expenditure of large sums of money and the construction of new port works at the mouth of the River Llobregat, a few miles southwest of the city. As, however, the final plans for the free port have not yet been accepted and their complete realization will probably be a matter of years, this report will of lecessity be limited chiefly to the existing régime of free deposits which S very similar to that of bonded warehouses in the United States. Brief history of the port.—The question of establishing some form of free zones at Barcelona in order to offset some of the disadvantages lo commerce of the strongly protectionist tariff policy of the Govern- nent, has been under discussion for many years. As early as 1901 ‘he Camara de Comercio y Navegacion (Chamber of Commerce and Navigation) of Barcelona made elaborate studies on free zones and reported thereon to the Government. The same organization issued Another report on the subject in 1915. The free deposit of Barcelona vas authorized by royal decree of October 24, 1916, and royal order f December 7, 1917, and was actually inaugurated in July, 1921. The concession for the free deposit was granted to a semiofficial body entitled the “Consorcio del Deposito Franco de Barcelona’ Since changed to Consorcio del Puerto Franco), representing various ®conomic interests of this region, and the actual operation was leased Oy it to Credito v Docks de Barcelona, Pasaje del Comercio 7, Barcelona, Spain, a banking and warehousing institution founded in 881. For the first years of its existence, the free deposit was compara- vely little used but during 1927 regulations governing it were liber- lized in a number of ways and it will probably enjoy steady progress 0 the future until such time as its functions are taken over by the Tee port. Description of the free deposit and its facilities. —No attempt will be Made to describe the proposed free port since even the plans for it

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