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

Collection:: Economics Books

136 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. ing or a lessor. A copy of the government regulations governing these bonded warehouses is transmitted herewith.“ There is no special scale of charges for storage, but the average of such charges is about as follows : Dry goods, 25 cents per package for the first month, and 20 cents per package for each succeeding month; oils, 6 and 4 cents per barrel, or 4 and 3 cents for half barrels ; tobacco, 10 and 7 cents on small bales, 15 and 10 cents on large bales ; tea, 2 and 1 cent per package: pickles, 7 and 5 cents per case; rope, 15 and 10 cents per coil; cheese, 3 cents per package; molasses, 12 and 10 cents per barrel; and sirups, 6 and 5 cents per case. The receipts and ex penditures on account of services depend largely upon the staff employed in the warehouses. All persons are treated exactly alike by the administrators of ware houses. Americans use them to a small extent, chiefly for the storage of tobacco. All classes of goods may be warehoused. According to the regula tions, goods may not remain in bond for a longer period than two years, but this does not seem to be insisted on; it has been known that goods have remained in bond for a period of fifteen years. The col lector of customs at the port of Montreal, however, at the beginning of each calendar year, prepares a list of all articles in bond for five years and over, and advertises them for sale at public auction to the highest bidder. Goods are usually removed from boat or rail to warehouses and vice versa by teams, which are ample for the demand. The two principal railways in Canada, the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific, have, in connection with the removal of goods, a cartage company, which does the greater part of the cartage from the railways and boats. The cost of removing from boat would be about 60 cents per ton of 2,000 pounds, and from rail 2£ cents per 100 pounds for car load lots, and 2{- cents for less than carload lots. The bonded warehouses are under the care and supervision of a customs officer, who is in attendance when goods are received or de livered from the warehouse. During his absence the bonded ware houses are locked and the keys are retained by the customs officer in charge. He, of course, receives his salary from the government, but for service after hours—before 8 a. m., or after C p. m.—the owners of the goods in the warehouse must pay to him a fee of 50 cents for the first hour and 25 cents for each succeeding hour. A. W. Edwards, Consul-General. Montreal, Quebec, September 86,1901¡.. GASPÉ. (From United States Consul DicJcson, Gaspó, Quebec.) The collector of customs of this port (Gaspé) informs me that there are no warehouses for the storage of merchandise in transit in this port or consular district, as there is no merchandise of any kind passing through this district in transit. Bonded warehouses are used here only for local purposes, each large firm having its own ware- o On file in Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor. The principal rules are printed above under dispatch from Ottawa.

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