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:: Europe

Collection:: Economics Books

16 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. facility to the patrons of the warehouses in the conduct of their transit business. The buildings are open daily, with the exception of Sundays and holidays, as follows: March 16 to October 31, from 7 a. m. to noon, and from 2 p. m. to 7 p. m. ; November 1 to February 15, from 7.30 a. m. to noon, and from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. ; February 16 to March 15, from 7 a. m. to noon, and from 1.30 p. m. to 6 p. m. Patrons of the warehouses have their own laborers for handling the goods, under the surveillance of the custom-house officers. Lighting is charged to the trade at the rate of 2 cents per hour. The scale of charges for the storage of the various classes of goods will be found in the pamphlet annexed hereto, entitled “ Réglement Special pour l’Entrepôt Public d’Anvers.” 0 There are no records to show the receipts and expenditures relat ing to the administration of, the Entrepôt Royal. The annual city report includes this in its miscellaneous receipts and gives no details. To secure them would require a special research on the part of both the city and the Government authorities. All classes of marketable goods are stored in the warehouses, save those belonging to the prohibited list in the pamphlet. Americans make the same use of the Entrepôt Royal as other nationalities for all manufactured products, food products, and the like. For grain and petroleum, as also for sugar and tobacco, there are special warehouses. All nationalities are treated alike. It is impossible to say definitely how long goods remain in the " entrepôt,” as this depends upon the condition of the market and the disposition of the consignee or the vendor. Furthermore, it must be borne in mind that goods likely to deteriorate or spoil, and by so doing to damage other goods in the warehouse, would be made the object of observations on the part of the officials, and in some cases ordered out of the warehouse. Merchants, by giving bonds, may have what are known as “ entre pôts privés,” from which merchandise may be removed only by special authorization of the custom-house authorities and in the presence of an officer. There are also without the precincts of the Entrepôt Royal itself certain warehouses which may be leased as ‘ entrepôts fictifs,” but access to these may be had by engaging, at the rate of 4 francs ($0.77) per diem, a customs officer in whose presence all manipulation of the goods stored in them must be made. The mer chant is liable to the customs authorities for the exact weight of goods entered in these “ entrepôt fictifs,” and even if loss of weight is due only to evaporation (as in the case of tobacco) this must be clearly demonstrated to the authorities to prevent a fine on the missing weight of ten times the value of the duty thereon. Beet sugar, paying an excise duty, is stored in a special warehouse which is under the same customs régime as the Entrepôt Royal. For removing goods from the warehouses to the steamers and vice versa there is every facility possible. There are many corporations, known as " nations,” who do practically all the carting of this port at o This and a plan of the building and the report of the inspector-general are on tile in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor, where they may be consulted by parties interested.

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