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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Title:: North America

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132 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. SUFFERANCE WAREHOUSES. Sufferance warehouses are for the landing of cargoes of vessels to be disposed of by entry for bond, consumption, or export, and are in many cases temporary and are protected by bond of the company using them, or by bond of the special vessel. These are not all under special customs locks, as the vessel, as well as the customs, is inter ested in the care of the cargo. The Canadian Pacific Railway, the Intercolonial Railway, and the Eastern Steamship Company all have commodious bonded ware houses at St. John for storage of goods in transit, and have ample facilities for loading and discharging from or into vessels at the wharves. All these are under the supervision of the Canadian cus toms officers. The warehouse of the Eastern Steamship Company is on the landing wharf at St. John, measures 75 by 300 feet, and cost about $2,000. Here general merchandise in transit to and from the United States over the company’s lines is stored for from twenty-four to forty-eight hours, or until shipped, at no cost to the shipper for storage or load ing and discharging. Rates on goods in sufferance bonded warehouses are a matter of agreement between the owner of the goods and the warehouse men. Each transportation line has large sufferance bonded warehouses, which, as a rule, make no special charges for storing, loading, or dis charging, those expenses being generally included in the freight charges. Warehouses for unclaimed goods are used also for the purposes above referred to. These are strictly under government locks, and the scale of fees leviable on goods stored therein is as follows per month or part of month: Tea per half chest, or other small package, 10 cents; per package of 3 feet square, 20 cents; per larger case or package, 25 cents; spirits or other liquors, per hogshead. 15 cents ; per cask, 10 cents; per case, 5 cents; goods by the barrel, 10 cents; iron and oakum, per ton, 80 cents; pianos, each, $1; organs, 50 cents; cook stoves, 25 cents; and all other goods in proportion. There are no discriminations against any nation. There are no warehouses here that were specially built for the storage of merchandise in transit or in bond, but as many as twelve warehouses with a capacity of from 2,000 to 3,000 barrels are set aside for that purpose by the payment of an annual fee of $40 each- These buildings each have a sign " Customs House,” and are under the control of the collector of customs; they are securely locked until it is desired to withdraw goods, when they are opened, and the owner WAREHOUSES FOR UNCLAIMED GOODS. Ira B. Myers, Consul. St. John, New Brunswick, June 9, 190^. NOVA SCOTIA HALIFAX. (From United States Consul-General Holloway, Halifax, Nova Scotia.)

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