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:: Asia

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JAPAN: KOBE. 177 the customs bonded warehouse; Kobe Pier Company’s tariff of stor age charges, from page 12 (to show the charges sanctioned by the Government to the private bonded warehouses). The first men tioned is the scale of charges to be levied by the customs for the keeping of the goods at the risk and expense of the owner or other persons concerned, when such goods sent to the customs for shipment or landed are not, within seventy-two hours after being sent or landed, either shipped, removed, dispatched, or placed in a bonded warehouse, and are therefore eventually stored by the customs. These charges are generally considered prohibitive. Information relative to receipts and expenditures on account of service is not obtainable. The classes of merchandise chiefly stored in bonded warehouses are sugar, flour, woolen and piece goods, etc. Those chiefly taken into the customs warehouse (not bonded) in transit, etc., are machinery, provisions, hardware, furniture, etc. Although the length of time goods remain in bond varies materially according to the state of the commercial market, during the year the average time goods remained in bonded warehouses is found to be about one month. Goods remaining either on the customs compound or in the customs warehouse varied from about two or three days to two weeks, and occasionally more than two weeks under some unfa vorable circumstances while transshipping, etc. So far Americans have made use of the bonded warehouses to a very limited extent, the China and Japan Trading Company (Lim ited) being the only firm which has, and its entries have been of small quantity and very rare. The greater portion of the merchandise, however, taken into the customs warehouse is found to be of Ameri can produce, and therefore it may be assumed that the Americans are making great use of this warehouse. All nationalities are treated exactly alike by the administrators of the warehouses. The removal of goods is done by lighters from the steamer to the shore, thence by carts or trucks to the warehouses, and vice versa. As all the warehouses are in close proximity to the shore, the distance to be covered by such drayage is very short. The cost of such removal may be divided into three parts, as follows: (a) Charges for landing or shipping; (5) . charges for cartage or truckage; (c) charges for handling at warehouses. For charges (a) see “ Rates of landing and shipping charges bv the Kobe Pier Company,” inclosed.® The charges (Ò) can only be fixed at the time of undertaking. The handling charges are about 1 to 5 cents per case or bale, or 1 cent per picul of 133£ pounds, according to the nature of the goods. These charges apply to either storing or discharging the goods from the warehouses. For goods requiring special care or demanding extra cooly hire, an extra charge may be made. The care and supervision to be exercised by the customs authorities over the warehouses are provided in the law relating to the bonded warehouses (see below b ) and executive regulations under the law. Every movement on the part of the private bonded warehouses is « On file in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor. »Copy of the law also forwarded by Consul Harris at Nagasaki, 18762-05 M 12

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