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 37 Sulina, Rumania. —The policing of the river is under the jurisdic- tion of the “European Commission of the Danube,” consisting of delegates from each of the seven contracting powers—Austria, England, France, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey. Rumania polices the town and controls the customhouse and pays the cost of upkeep of 130 frontier guards, while the European commission pays for the expenditure incurred on all works carried out on the river which are defrayed by taxes charged to steamers. Genoa.—The free port of Genoa is managed for the central govern- ment by a local chamber of commerce incorporated with the ““Con- ziglic dell’Economia Provinciale.”” Every two years a managing board of five members is elected from among the members of the chamber, and anyone may be reelected upon the expiration of his term of office. The board serves without salary. The enforcement of regulations and general management of the zone is carried out through a salaried director. Fiume.—The administration of all activities of the free port is under the immediate direction of a government commissioner, while certain phases of operation and administration are delegated to the railroad, harbor master, and the customs. Leghorn.—The operation and control of the free port are maintained by the Leghorn Commune under the supervision of an officer appointed by the mayor. Trieste.—The commercial organization of the port is exercised by the Magazzini Generali, under whose independent administration all loading, unloading, and warehousing operations are effected. The bonded warehouses are managed by a board representing the Govern- ment, the municipality, the chambers of commerce of Trieste, Udine, and Pala; the railroads, the office of public works, the Shipowners Federation, the committee of Trieste forwarding agents, and the Harbor Workers Association. They are controlled and operated by various departments dealing with the import and export sections of the traffic, and with the rail and sea communications, respectively. The main section deals with the technical management, construction and repair work, the latter being carried out by the office of public works under surveillance of the bonded warehouses, the harbor office and the Railroad Administration. The maritime control of the free port is exercised by the harbor master’s office, and the rail- road movements are controlled jointly by the Magazzini Generali and the State railroads GUARDING THE FREE PORT It is the practice in Europe to surround the free zone on the land side with a toll fence to prevent goods from entering customs terri- tory without payment of duties. A convenient number of entrances

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