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

220 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES Reconsignment trade.—No statistics appear to be available covering the reconsignment trade at the free zone. The operating company reports that virtually all of the merchandise handled in the zone is destined for the provisioning of steamers, the decline in the volume of other merchandise received in recent vears making little available for reconsignment. Transshipment trade.—This trade is also reported as being negligible for the same reasons given in the foregoing paragraph. During the past four years a few American, Italian, and French motor vehicles have been received in the free zone for transshipment to other Mediter- ranean markets, but the value and volume of this trade has been but a minor factor in the activities of the zone as a whole. Manufacturing in free zone.—Aside from the manufacture of ice for sale to Cadiz fishing vessels there is stated to be no manufacturing industries established in the free zone. No information is available as to the value and amount of ice thus manufactured. A small portion of it'is sold to steamers calling at the zone, but the bulk goes to supply the fishing fleets of the port of Cadiz. Tt should be noted that efforts made from time to time to establish manufacturing enterprises in the free zone have not met with the ap- proval of the Spanish Government. Shipbuilding and ship repair in free zone.—Shipbuilding and ship repair are not undertaken in the free zone. Influence on development of foreign trade.—The declining importance of the port of Cadiz in the foreign trade of Spain is tending to make the free zone of little value in the foreign trade of this country. At the present time the zone serves chiefly as a deposit for nontaxed mer- chandise (principally coal) for use in supplying steamers calling at Cadiz. This narrowing scope of the zone’s activities combined with the consistently maintained attitude of the Government in frowning upon any effort to increase the use of the free zone has served to render the zone of little commercial importance in this territory with the re- sult that it has at the present time only a minor influence on the foreign trade of southern Spain. Influence on the merchant marine—The operating company states that the present activities of the free zone indicate that it is exerting little if any influence on the merchant marine of this country. It serve chiefly as a source of steamers’ provisions and supplies, and while the majority of the vessels calling thereat are of Spanish registry, it is of little relative importance in the development of the merchant marin? of this country. Statistics covering merchandise received in free zone.—The following figures give the volume of merchandise received at the free zone sinc? it was taken over by the present operators. Since 1924 the commod” ties received have been composed largely of coal from the British

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