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 1. General analysis

Collection:: Economics Books

FOREIGN TRADE ZONES 25 be devoted wholly to export trade. Goods entering customs terri- tory from the free zone would be subject to duty on the value of the finished products, and this alone would discourage general manufac- turing operations in the free zone. Simplification of the drawback procedure would seem to be a possible solution of the problem, and it would keep the free zone wholly available for the instrumentalities of commerce and shipping, which are its true functions. 4. PRINCIPAL FEATURES OF EUROPEAN FREE PORTS OPERATIONS PERMITTED AND PROHIBITED IN FREE PORTS OF EUROPE The data made available in connection with this investigation show that there is wide divergence in the nature and extent of the privileges accorded to commerce and shipping within the free ports of Europe. Obviously, the purpose in view is to accord the greatest freedom to shipping and to secure the greatest development of international trade which proper regard to the protection of home industries will permit. In this connection it is interesting to note the privileges accorded and the restrictions imposed at the various free ports of Europe. Copenhagen.—The Copenhagen free port law of March 31, 1891, authorized the construction of a free port ‘for commercial and indus- trial purposes.” Under the terms of the charter of the Copenhagen Free Port Joint Stock Co., the company must permit merchandise deposited in open or inclosed spaces within the free port leased out to private parties and which it was impossible to receive in the ware- houses of the company, to be prepared or manipulated in any manner that the proprietors or their representatives see fit. Every person has a right upon payment of stipulated sums due and by observing the regulations in force to make use of the installations of the free port. In accordance with law there can not be installed within the territory of the free port, without the previous consent of the legislative power, factories for the manufacture of artificial fertilizer, or margarine, or book binding or printing industries for books, newspapers or music. The consent of the Secretary of the Interior is necessary for the estab- lishment of any other industry, as well as for retail stores within the territory of the free port. The Secretary shall not, however, oppose any difficulties whenever ‘the articles manufactured or sold are for export or for provisioning of vessels. Special care is taken to prevent the consumption of dutiable articles within the free port unless such duties have been paid. Foreign merchandise which leaves the free port and enters into Danish customs territory must submit to the rules as.to the tariff schedules then in force. The port duties assessed against vessels in the customs port are not collected in the free zone on articles trans- shipped and re-exported, but articles leaving the free port for entry into Danish customs territory pay to the tariff board a tax equal to the

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