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

274 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES for export, that is, for reexportation of materials which have been imported in the raw state and which, after being manipulated and worked, are exported in the finished or semifinished state. The industrial plants in the new port of Venice at present do not reexport their output, that is, to any considerable extent. They produce almost wholly for domestic consumption, which reduces the impor- tance of free-port facilities to them. Free port advantageous to ports having transit traffic.—Venice has little port traffic which might be considered truly in transit, and this is another reason why free-port facilities are not regarded as being so vital to the interests of the port. As compared with Venice, the port of Trieste has more transit traffic and this has a direct bearing on the question of free-port facilities. Several years ago Trieste was to have been declared a free port and plans were made for the granting of that privilege to that port, but Venice protested and maintained that in case that Trieste be made a free port, Venice insisted that it be also granted like privileges, as the interests of the two ports were too close to permit of any possible advantage to one which might affect the traffic of the other. Soon thereafter the matter was dropped and neither port received free-port privileges at that time. The export traffic of Venice is very small, having been about 220,400 metric tons in the calendar year 1927, and of this, little would have been affected by the existence of the free port, had there been one in existence, but with a rearrangement of the industry of the port of Venice and a delineation of the free-port zone, with its rigid customs barrier to separate it from the port proper, the export traffic might assume another aspect, that is, it might grow somewhat provided that the burden of customs duties be not replaced by taxes or other charges which would vitiate the profits or advantages from the privi- leges granted by the free port. Free-port zone as tentatively outlined. —The representatives of Venice at the national free-port conferences at Rome have already drafted a tentative plan of delimitation of the free-port zone for the port of Venice, and it is roughly made to include all the “stazione marittima’ (old port of Venice) in Venice proper east of the dock known as the Scomenzera, which would include most of the present port of Venice, as well as part of the Giudecca, which would include part of the large flour mill there (Molino Stucky). This would embrace the cotton mill in the port of Venice and the cold storage plant (Societd Importa- zione Carni), as well as the grain elevator of the Societa Sylos. Before the plan could be adopted and executed, extensive customs barriers would have to be put up to outline the limits of the free-port zone. This would require some months, even after the adoption of the planned zone and the regulations in regard thereto.

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