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:: Africa

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188 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. American goods stored are principally tobacco and salted meats.' All nationalities are treated exactly alike. Goods are taken to the warehouses at the expense of the importers. Wagons and workmen for the handling of goods are always to be found on the quays. As the warehouses are very near the wharves or quays, the cost is low. Goods are not received unless found in good condition. Any de fective baling must be remedied before goods are admitted. Petro leum is excluded from these warehouses and must be stored outside the city with the authorization of the prefecture. Perishable goods can be handled in small parcels with the previous authorization of the custom-house. The custom-house formalities for goods in transit are the same as for goods intended for direct consumption. A special form is employed. The goods in the warehouses can be sold or trans ferred to third parties without any formalities or special expense. At the expiration of the three years articles not withdrawn are sold and the duty paid. The net product of the sale is deposited in the treasury. Daniel S. Kidder, Consul. Algiers, Algeria, June 0,9,190If. BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA. CAPE TOWN. (From United States Consul-General Big ham, Cape Town, South Africa.) This city is amply supplied with warehouses, many of which are very old and some very large. A company having three bonded warehouses was not able to tell me the cost of construction. The government has extensive warehouses at the docks, but most goods are stored in private bonded warehouses, being taken directly there, as fast as discharged from vessels, by dray wagons belonging to the harbor board. After goods are hauled to the warehouses by teams they are un loaded by coolies. The owner of the warehouse is under a heavy bond to take no goods out of the warehouse until the duty is paid, after which he handles them as he desires. The keys of the ware houses are kept in most cases by the private owner. I am told in some cases the government has locks on the warehouse also. The price of storage varies, some paying from G pence (12 cents) to 10 pence (20 cents) per ton of 40 cubic feet per week. Unloading from wagons at the warehouses is done by coolies at an expense of 1 shilling (24 cents) per ton; when the goods are taken from the warehouse again the expense of loading on the wagons is 1 shilling per ton. This applies only to goods stored in warehouses where cold storage is not necessary. Perishable goods are all stored in private bonded warehouses, as the government owns no cold-storage chambers. The price for storage in such chambers varies according to the amount of merchandise and the time it remains in storage, but I am told that it will run from Gs. Gd. ($1.58) to 10s. ($2.43) per ton per week; some goods in small packages are charged for by the

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