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

238 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES The entrance into the free zone is also forbidden to beggars, peddlers, unre deemed bankrupts, to those who have been sentenced for smuggling, stealing, oT for fraud, and to those who are unable to prove satisfactorily their personal identity. CUSTODY OF MERCHANDISE Art. 12. The following goods are not accepted for storage in the free zone: (a) Salt and tobacco, now under the monopoly of the State. ‘h) Powders and explosives. ") Matches, kerosene, sulphur, turpentine, tar, and alcohol. 7) Sausages, cheese, and similar goods. ‘) Concealed weapons. {f) Playing cards, pocket articles, precious articles. (9) Garments, linen manufactured in any way for ready wear, hats, neckties, handkerchiefs not in bulk, gloves, and shoes. (kh) Foreign wines. Unhealthful goods or those emitting offensive odors if admitted in the free zone are to be stored in separate, remote, storage rooms, or can be entirely excluded from the free zone according to circumstances. The inspector of the free zone must enforce the above rules. ArT. 13. Normally goods can not be stored in the free port for more than six months; the chamber of commerce, upon application, may extend such limit and eventually add additional charges to the standard rates. If the application for extension is not made, or if the extension should not be granted, the chamber may have the merchandise sold by auction and may sue the eoncern for the total payment of dues or for the refund of expenses. The amount left after the refund is made will be deposited with the cashier of the chamber of commerce and left at the disposal of the proper parties until the expiration of the legal term for the withdrawal of the sum. . ArT. 14. Deteriorated goods or merchandise in process of deterioration will not be admitted unless accompanied by a certificate discharging the chamber of commerce from any responsibility concerning the goods. Even a simple notation on the certificate of storage of the following articles will be considered ‘as the equivalent of legal evidence. Very heavy or very bulky merchandise or goods that can be piled up only with difficulty, liquids, or materials subject to sweating are admitted, according to circumstances, only to the passages, stairs, corridors, or to the ground floor of the “quartieri” and always subject to the free space available and in considera- tion of the exigencies of other merchandise more in consonance with the nature of the free zone. ArT. 15. The chamber of commerce: does not arrange for the insurance of merchandise against fire or other risks. RATES FOR TRANSFER AND DISINFECTION OF GOODS Art. 16. The expenditures for the import, movement, and export of mer- chandise are charged against the merchandise. Against the goods are also charged the expenditures for disinfections ordered by the competent authority, and for transferring merchandise on account of disinfection, fire, storms, or accidents of any kind, and also all other expenses ordered by the chamber of commerce, without appeal, for the purpose of the proper keeping of the merchandise and in the general interest of all goods stored in the free zone. : The storage dues are listed in the appendix to this regulation together with the special rules concerning it.

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