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:: South America

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164 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. the warehouse, the fees for which storage are much lower and lhe facilities for handling goods much better than at the warehouse of the custom-house proper. A list of articles permitted to be stored and the charges for their storage is appended herewith.® Nothing can be removed from the bonded section except in the presence of the inspector designated to assess duties and supervise the removal of merchandise. The two warehouses in which the State allows merchandise in transit in bond to be stored are very old buildings, situated on the water front and having piers extending out sufficiently to allow lighters and small craft to go alongside. According to the State regulations a warehouse to be bonded must make a petition to and be recognized as such by the State treasury. There is further required the entry in a book of the number, weight, and marks of all merchandise entering and departing from the warehouse. This book has been paged and initialed by an official appointed for such service. The State levies a tax on all exports, and in order that merchan dise originating in other States and coming here in transit for ship ment shall be tree from this tax it is necessary that documents from the point of origin showing quantity, weight, and marks be pre sented ; that the merchandise be stored in one of these two ware houses until ready for shipment, and that an inspector of the State custom-house verify the merchandise at the warehouse at the time of embarkation. About the only articles that come to Bahia in bond for export are rubber, hides, and skins. These are simply stored until ready for shipment, as any manipulation whereby quality is improved would subject the merchandise to the State tax collected on “ products of other States benefited while in Bahia.” There is no separate portion in these warehouses for merchandise in transit, which in reality is not bonded and does not need to be, as it can not leave here until it has either paid duty or passed State inspection, though I understand that the law is to be amended so as to require separate compartments and guards for such merchandise. It is impossible to ascertain the cost of the Federal warehouse, which is the newest; the others are very old, have been added to or altered from time to time, and most of them would need to be almost rebuilt to be put in first-class condition. It is impossible also to form any idea of the receipts and expenditures, as the warehouses are oper ated by private concerns which would refuse to divulge their business. All nationalities are treated alike in these warehouses, and in the State warehouses the American firms, who are the largest exporters of transit merchandise (hides, skins, and rubber), fare like the rest. II. W. Fukniss, Consul. Bahia, Brazil, August 26, 1904. SANTOS. (From United States Consul Johnson, Santos, Tira~il.) There are no warehouses for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond at this port. All goods imported at Santos pass from the « On file in the Bureau of Statistics. Department of Commerce and Labor.

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