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

272 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES tons, or 15 per cent, with North and South American cargoes. In 1927 the proportion of these two companies was 38.5 per cent and 15.3 per cent, respectively. Government subsidies to the Lloyd Triestino enabled this company to predominate in the Adriatic homeward and outward trade to the Levant, India, and the Far East, and undoubtedly the existence of the free zone is vital to these shipping concerns, as they could not thrive without a regular flow of traffic sufficient to maintain the lines in operation. Merchant shipping in tramp trading can not be said to have been influenced by the free zone directly, because Trieste and Fiume them- selves offered comparatively little support with outward cargoes. Before the war the growth of the harbor organizations and traffic volume was responsible for an increasing demand of coal from the United ‘Kingdom, and tramp owners were encouraged to employ vessels with coals from that country to Trieste and Fiume, thence proceeded in ballast to the Black Sea and the Danube to load cereals for the Continent, and thence to the United Kingdom for coal again. The situation has changed considerably since the war and tramp steamers apparently no longer have a regular part in the develop- ment of the port of Trieste. THE FREE PORT OF VENICE, ITALY [From Consul James B. Young, Venice, Italy] Free-port facilities not yet effective.—Venice, Italy, was declared a free port by royal decree of December 22, 1927, No. 2395 (published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale, Rome, December 28, 1927, No. 300) to be effective January 1, 1928, the date set by the royal decree, but so far this decree has not become effective and its date of becoming effective has been indefinitely postponed. Free-port regulations under negotiation.— The entire question of free ports and the carrying into effect of the royal decree of December 22, 1927, and especially of* the regulations governing free ports in Italy are all the subject of present negotiations. These questions are being discussed by the national commissione dei porti franchi (free-port committee) in Rome. This committee met recently (Feb- ruary 23, 1928) in Rome at the Ministry of Communications, In addition to officials of the respective ministries interested (finance, communications, national economy, etc.), there were also represen- tatives of the various Italian ports which have been decreed free ports. The object of this conference was to discuss and formulate provisions for carrying into effect a definite national plan and of defining the free-port zones and regulations in the case of each port. The results of this conference are still incomplete.

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