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

256 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES EXPENSES, IN ITALIAN LIRE General expenses and interest on capital. ._._ Operating expenses: L. Personnel’s wages, eben 2. Materials and supplies... _. ——— 3. Commercial operations... ..._. ————- 4. Various charges, cost of maintenance ...._... 5. 600, 000 9, 900, 000 3, 000, 000 0, 500, 000 2. 000, 000 25, 400, 000 Total... 31, 000, 000 Operations permitted in free zone—In the free zones are permitted all operations of traffic, manipulation of goods and industry in which no alteration of the substance of the original article is involved. The most important are the manipulation of tobacco, requiring sorting out, packing and forwarding; coffee cleaning; and motor-car assembling. In addition there are special facilities for the warehousing under bond prior to the importation of the goods within the national customs barriers. This operation enables traders with foreign coun- tries to store goods until they are sold either at home or abroad. A lumber mill has been built in the free zone. The building was erected by the company on ground which is given free of rent for 10 years, but at the end of that period the property of the building reverts to the free port. Operations prohibited in free zone.—No industry, which in course of manufacture alters the substance of the goods involved, is per- mitted. It may be stated, however, that a scheme is in course of consideration to modify this rule for the purpose of increasing trade in this port, which is becoming rather precarious owing to the com- petition of the North German ports. Dispatch in unloading.—The Porto Vittorio Emanuele III is the more extensive and technically better equipped with cranes and lifts worked by hydraulic pressure from a pumping station equipped with accumulators. There are 87 cranes, of which 4 are of 3 tons’ capacity and the others of 1.5 tons. The latter aro in process of being strength- ened to lift 2.5 tons, in view of the increasing arrivals of American automobiles exceeding 1.5 tons in weight. Some 43 of these cranes are already in operation. There are 88 cargo lifts and 4 fixed hy- draulic cranes fitted to the upper floors of the depots. The hydraulic cranes are of the Bremen type No. 1885 and the derricks can be turned over an angle of 320°. The Porto Emanuele Filiberto Duca d’Aosta is, on the other hand, equipped exclusively with 24 electrically driven cranes, 4 of which are of 3 tons’ capacity and 20 of 1.5 tons. There are also 16 electric lifts fitted on depots. The electric cranes turn over an angle of 360°. . Cargo is lifted by means of slings attached to a conical chal? acting as counterweight on a hook fixed to an iron chain of 10 meters

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