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

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FOREIGN TRADE ZONES 49 At the free port of Hamburg bulk goods from overseas are to a very large extent transshipped to other countries. There are innumerable commodities entering into this trade among which are rice, rubber, flour, wheat, and other grains. Rice and rubber are often ultimately exported to the United States, while wheat, flour, and other grains imported from the United States are transshipped at Hamburg to Scandinavian and Baltic countries as well as to the hinterland. It is sald that practically every commodity which enters into foreign trade finds a place in Hamburg’s transshipment activities. There are no available data showing the extent of the reconsign- ment and transshipment trade of the free port of Hamburg. The principal commodities in the transshipment and reconsign- ment business of Bremen are cotton, tobacco, drugs, rice, coffee, grain, and bananas. There are no statistics available to show the volume of this trade. There is no reconsignment or transshipment business done at the free port of Emden, as the larger ports of Hamburg and Bremen handle most of this trade for Germany. While the transshipment trade at the free harbor of Flensburg is almost negligible, the reconsignment trade forms an important part of the business of the port. Flensburg specializes in the handling of grain and feeding stuffs destined for the cattle-raising districts of Schleswig Holstein and the Mecklenburgs. During the calendar year 1927, 27,000 metric tons of grain and cattle food were imported through the free port. In addition, there were some 800 cubic meters of wood from Lithuania and 1,100 tons of fertilizer from Belgium reconsigned at this port. There were 300 tons of Russian barley transshipped via Flensburg to Denmark. Goods from the hinter- land exported via the free harbor to Denmark amounted to 3,000 tons of coke and 500 tons of briquettes. There is at present very little reconsignment or transshipment business done at the free port of Kiel. The only commodities enter- ing into this trade are stones, shavings, and alcohol. There is very little transshipment business done at Bremerhaven. Small quantities of flour and dried fruit from the United States are transshipped to Scandinavian countries, and bananas from the West Indies are also transshipped to Norway and Sweden. The greater portion of the merchandise unloaded in the free zone is for consign- ment, chiefly to Bremen and inland points. The principal com- modities in this trade imported from the United States are cotton, flour, grain, tobacco, lumber, lard, and fresh fruits, while the United Kingdom furnishes chiefly coal. At Cuxhaven there were 27,322 metric tons transshipped during 1927. The transshipment and consignment trade of the free port of Stettin is comprised chiefly of ores, slags, coal, coke, briquets,

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