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 1. General analysis

Collection:: Economics Books

a dud FOREIGN TRADE ZONES 3. PROCEDURE AT AMERICAN PORTS OF ENTRY FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS AT PORTS OF ENTRY As a background for the study of the possible economies which could result from the establishment of free ports or foreign trade zones in the United States, the following information regarding the present practice at the American ports of entry should be of value. The responsibilities of the Federal Government in respect to pro- cedure in connection with the entry of vessels and cargo into the ports of the United States rest mainly upon the Treasury Department and are administered by the Public Health Service and the Customs Service. The Department of Labor, through the Immigration Serv- ice, carries out the immicration laws. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE When about to enter a port of the United States, a vessel in foreign trade must first come to anchor at the designated quarantine anchor- age for inspection by the proper officials of the Public Health Service. If, after such inspection, no passengers or members of the crew are found to be suffering from contagious or infectious diseases, the vessel is granted pratique to enable her to proceed to her berth. Passengers or members of the crew found to have communicable diseases are placed under detention in quarantine hospitals, The procedure in entering a free port would not differ in any essential respect from that required in connection with the entry of vessels into established ports. The necessity for these inspections, however, and of suitable anchorage facilities should be borne in mind in selecting sites for free zones. CUSTOMS SERVICE The convenience of the free port, both with respect to vessels and cargo, is principally related to the elimination or curtailment of cus- toms control. In order to make apparent the numerous require- ments which would be wholly or largely obviated by the free port, the following brief statement of the more important features of cus- toms control over vessels and cargo is given. Arrival and entry of vessels.—Vessels carrying freight or passengers, or in ballast, inward bound from foreign ports come within the jurisdiction of American customs laws when within 4 leagues of the coast, and enter customs control when boarded by customs officers upon their arrival within any collection district. Masters of such vessels must deliver to boarding officers for inspection the original cargo manifest and one copy thereof for each port at which freight is to be unloaded; if an American vessel, the certificates issued by American consular officers abroad covering the carriage thereon of

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