Warehouses in foreign countries for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond

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Identifikator:: 863514456

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-45340

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Warehouses in foreign countries for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Government Printing Office

Year of publication:: 1905

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (206 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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NEW BRUNSWICK: ST. JOHN. 131 warehouses are located in blocks, and consist really of suites of rooms. Generally, however, they are in separate buildings, used wholly as warehouses. The warehouses are in all cases owned by private indi viduals or firms who pay the Canadian customs a license fee of $40 per annum for each warehouse. These firms charge their own rates for storage, and the business is conducted wholly by the owners. The patron deals directly with the owner of warehouse. There are two separate locks to each warehouse, the key of one lock remaining in possession of owner; the other key is kept by the customs “ locker.” who must always be present when the warehouse is opened and goods removed. Duties due on goods in bond must be paid at time of removal. Charges for storage are generally 50 cents per ton per month, but owners sometimes make discounts to large or regular patrons. The customs authorities have nothing to do with receipts and ex penditures of the service. The customs locker, who is paid by the Dominion government, sees that the warehouse is safe and can not be opened or goods removed unless he is present and unlocks the door, but charges no fee for the service. The goods in bond are mostly liquors and other goods on which a high rate of duty is imposed. Frequently, however, wholesale deal ers in teas, dry goods, cloths, etc., use warehouses for a few weeks or months. Goods are not allowed to remain in bond over two years, except liquors, which may remain five years. Occasionally Americans avail themselves of these warehouses. In & number of instances Americans who have kept goods in bond in San Francisco as long as the law allowed have brought them to Vic toria, kept them here in bond two years, and then taken them back to San Francisco. This is not done very frequently, however. All nationalities are treated exactly as are residents of Canada. Most of the warehouses are on or adjacent to wharves, and the cost of removal of goods to or from boat and warehouse is nominal. The cusoms locker keeps careful record of all goods placed in Warehouses in a book kept specially for that purpose; and all goods removed from warehouses are also carefully noted therein, with the (fate. Care is taken that warehouses arc properly secured. Goods not claimed in thirty days after removal from warehouse are es cheated to the government. All customs regulations in regard to bonded warehouses are the same here as in all other ports of the Dominion of Canada. Abraham E. Smith, Consul. NEW BRUNSWICK. ST. JOHN. (From United States Consul Myers, St. John, New Brunswick.) The customs department of Canada recognizes several classes of Warehouses, two of which may be used for storage of goods in transit °r landing here to be afterwards returned or forwarded.

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