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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184 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. is rendered to the head customs official at Tandjong Priok every day, and he in turn renders a report to the comptroller of the customs. The warehouses are locked every afternoon by the storekeeper, and he must deliver keys to the custom-house officer who is in charge the following morning. The two lines of Dutch steamers trading between the Netherlands and Java have their own private stores for goods landed and in tended for shipment by their steamers. These warehouses, however, are under Government supervision. There is no charge for store rent. B. S. Rairden, Consul. Batavia, Java, August 15, 1905. PERSIA. (From United States Yice-Consul-Oeneral Tyler, Teheran, Persia.) Bonded warehouses, such as are found in the great commercial ports under our more refined conditions of trade, are unknown in Persia. Foreign goods reaching frontier by land or by sea, either for local consumption or for transport inland, aré released for distribution by the payment of the customs duty as soon as the means of trans port or porterage can be procured. Goods are not allowed to be sent in transit under bond to cities or towns in the interior, ex cept as a favor, when they are personal effects not intended for sale; and in such a case, in order to prevent a loss, a sum sufficient to cover the duty is,demanded at the port or frontier station, so that the only advantage to the owner is the avoidance of losses from repacking. In case of reshipment or retransfer to some other local ity, if the duty had been paid, it would be returned to the owner. Goods left in the warehouses or caravansary to await means of transport or other detail of business pay about a cent a day on each package and a trifle on the whole consignment to the keeper of the warehouse. The storage may be either in the open or under cover. Warehouses may be the property of the Government, of private individuals, or of shipping companies, not infrequently the latter, and in that case the Government has to pay a rental varying in amount according to the nature of the structure and the average rentals of the district. In the storage of goods all nationalities are treated alike in the matter of protection and cost; if difference is made it is rallier in favor of the foreigner. Gratuities are generally the most effective means of securing greater consideration in Persia. In the removal of goods from the ships to the shore, which is generally a distance of from 2 to 4 miles, the price is determined by the boatmen and the owner at the time, there being no scale of charges. It does not appear that the greatest supervisory care is exercised by the authorities over goods in the warehouse, but that is a question of detail depending largely upon the gratuities given to the men in charge. John Tyler, Vice-C'onsul-Goneral. Teheran, Persia, July 10, 1904.

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