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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BARBADOS. 159 TI io San José warehouses are owned by Señorita Maria cle las Mercedes de Ajuria y Mimar, Condesa de Casa Moré i deceased), and are managed by her executor and general manager, Señor Jorge de Ajuria. The Regia warehouses belong to the United Railways Com pany (Limited), of Habana. It is generally understood that the service is convenient and satis factory to the patrons. The warehouses have a regular scale of charges. The schedule of charges of the San José is annexed hereto.® The receipts and expenditures are not available. All kinds of goods are stored except those of a perishable nature and explosives. Sugar is the principal merchandise stored. It is estimated that about 15 per cent of the goods stored are American. No discrimination whatever is made with respect to nationality of the depositors. Goods remain on an average from one to two months, but may remain one vear, according to article 193 of the customs regu lations. When goods are removed by boat, launch, or lighter to the warehouses the charges for service are according to their regular schedules. The general inspector of the port exercises watchful care and supervision over the bonded warehouses as over all other places within the customs jurisdiction. The entry and dispatch of merchan dise is authorized by the custom-house in all cases, and to carry out such regulations an oilicer is stationed at each warehouse. Joseph A. Springer, Vice Consul-General. Habana, Cuba, August 9,190If. BAHAMAS. (From United States Consul Potter, Nassau, Hallamos.) The government owns two warehouses here for the storage of mer chandise, the principal one of which is about 70 feet square. One warehouse is also owned by a private firm. I have been unable to learn the cost of any. Storage charges are in general based upon the amount of space occupied, though they vary considerably for dif ferent articles. 0 The receipts and expenditures on account of service are not published. Almost all classes of goods may be stored in these warehouses, and goods may remain any length of time up to four years. No distinctions are made on account of nationality, and Americans sometimes use the warehouses. Julian Potter, Consul. Nassau, Bahamas, July 22,190\. BARBADOS. (From United States Consul Wilber,. ¡turbados, West Indies.) The average dimensions of bonded warehouses in this island are 45 by 05 feet, and the original cost of such a building would be about « On file in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor. 6 Tariff of storage charges included in the dispatch is on file in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.

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