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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182 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. payment of import duty, they must be so declared at the time of their arrival. Goods once declared for importation can not be trans shipped to a foreign port without the payment of duty, and no rebate is allowed on reexported goods on which duty has been paid. The customs regulations provide that at ports where there are no customs warehouses, if goods for importation or exportation are not removed within seventy-two hours after their arrival at the customs sheds, the customs authorities may arrange for their storage in pri vate warehouses at the risk and expense of the parties concerned. Under this provision arrangements have been made with Messrs. Samuel Samuel & Co. for such storage in their warehouses at the ports of Tamsui and Killing. This company has four brick ware houses at the first-named port, in which can be stored about 2,000 tons of cargo at one time. When goods are placed in these warehouses by the customs authorities they take possession of the keys. At these ports the cost of removing goods from ship to warehouses, and vice versa, varies with different classes of goods from 35 cents for ordi nary goods to $1.20 United States currency per ton for machinery and heavy pieces. The bar at the mouth of the Tamsui River will not permit vessels of deeper draft than 13 feet to enter the harbor. There are limited pier accommodations at that port. At Kilung a temporary pier has been constructed for the accommodation of ves sels of not more than 4,000 gross tons. When these piers are used the cost of removal is reduced to from 10 to 40 cents United States currency per ton. At the port of Anping, in addition to their sheds, the customs have two storing rooms with a capacity of 075 tons each. As the anchor age at that port is about 2£ miles from the shore the cost of removing goods from ship to storing room, and vice versa, is increased to from 00 cents to $1.75 United States currency per ton. There is one customs storing room at the port of Takao with a capacity of 450 tons. The anchorage is about 1 mile from shore and the cost of removal is from 55 cents to $1.50 United States currency per ton. At all the ports goods are removed by lighters and cooly labor. The charge per day for storage, whether in the customs rooms or in private warehouses, is computed on the following scale in United States currency: Packed goods, 1£ cents per cubic foot; unpacked goods, 1| cents per cubic foot or 133 pounds; explosives, 24 cents per cubic foot or 133 pounds; precious goods, 0.001 ad valorem. All nations are treated exactly alike in the storage of goods by the customs authorities. Americans do not make use of these storage facilities to any great extent. Fred D. Fisher, Consul. Tamsui, Formosa, Avgust 00,190J t . JAVA. (From, United States Consul Rairden, Batavia, Java.) The Government warehouses at Tandjong Priok (Batavia new harbor) are from 400 to 600 feet long and about 60 feet broad. These warehouses extend the entire length of the quay—about 3,000 feet.

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