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 213 ns Sm in ne <h on or iy - 18 he [1:8 22, AT he he of 0 he ces tf. ay PRE ta od or an he n- ral ont ed wer Reconsignment and transshipment trade. —No statistics of this trade have been kept and it can only be stated that its volume so far has been small. Barcelona is looked upon as a logical distributing “enter for the western Mediterranean and especially for north Africa ind the Canary Islands, and these classes of trade should increase substantially in the future. Manufacturing in the free deposit.—While in theory certain kinds of manufacturing are permitted in the free deposit, none has been so far carried out unless an exception be made of assembling of auto- mobiles which though permitted has not actually commenced as yet. Manufacturing proper will probably only commence with the *stablishment of the free port to which reference has already been made. Shipbuilding and ship repairing.—No shipbuilding or repairing is Possible in the free deposit with the present facilities nor does it seem likely that even when the free port is established more than possibly ome repairing will be done there, since Spanish shipyards work most exclusively for a highly protected market. Importance of free port on the development of Joreign trade and the merchant marine.—On account of the relatively small traffic which has been so far carried on it can not be said that the free deposit has had iny great effect on the development of Spain’s foreign trade or its Merchant marine. That upon the completion of the free port they will be favorably influenced can hardly be doubted but this is a matter f the future. Statistics covering operations of the free deposit.—As far as can be earned no statistics have been kept covering the merchandise entered ind dispatched from the free deposit. It is understood that there Was a very considerable increase in the use of its facilities in 1927 nd that among the articles passing through it were automobiles, *hemical products, cereals, hides, machinery, tires, jute, and scrap ubber. The Credito y Docks de Barcelona in 1927 issued credits "0 merchandise to the extent of 3,349,919 pesetas. While a largo bart of these undoubtedly covered merchandise in the free deposit, it ‘an hardly be accepted as an indication of the value of the goods since Nany of them may not have been the subject of loans and also loans Nay have been made by other institutions. As previously mentioned ceipts two or three years ago for sortage of merchandise only “Mounted to some 70,000 pesetas annually which indicates the relatively small amount of business done. yub ad ry . e8

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