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:: Oceania

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204 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. chants. In all other towns throughout the colony the public bonds are conducted by private individuals. These warehouses receive and deliver all sorts of goods, repack tobacco, cigars, etc., and reweigh fruits, and charge according to a fixed scale. 0 All classes of goods are stored in warehouses, more particularly the merchandise that bears the highest rate of duty—namely, to bacco, cigars, and boots and shoes. The more prominent merchants use the bonded warehouse considerably, and some of the smaller firms and private individuals who have no storage room of their own depend entirely upon the public bond warehouses. There are no American firms in Auckland who make use of the warehouses. When goods have been stored in bond for three years, they must be either rewarehoused for another term of three years or destroyed or sold by public auction to defray duty and bond rent, and in this respect all nationalities are treated alike. The goods are conveyed from the wharf or from bond by wagons or carts at a rate of 2 shillings (48 cents) per ton. Stationed at every public bond ware house there is a government official who is called a locker. The duties of this officer are to see that the proper entries are passed and that there is no default in payment of the duty. F. Dillingham, Consul-General. Auckland, New Zealand, July 21,1904. SAMOA. (From United States Consul-General Heimrod, Apia, Samoa.) The facilities in this district for storage of merchandise in transit or bond, from which goods may be withdrawn for shipment else where without payment of customs dues, are (1) the government warehouse, owned by the German Government and conducted by its customs officials—a one-story frame building 30 by 70 feet, erected at an approximate cost of $3,000; (2) a private storeroom, owned by the Deutsche Handels and Plantagen Gesellschaft, used exclusively for the storage of its own merchandise in transit or bond. It com prises the basement of the company’s principal store. Approximate height from base to ceiling, 12 feet; width, 30 feet, and depth, 180 feet. The scale of charges for entry and storage in the government warehouse is as follows: For the handling of each package, includ ing entry and withdrawal, 40 pfennigs (9.52 cents) ; for storage per month, not exceeding 1 cubic meter (35,314 cubic feet), 20 pfennigs, (4.76 cents) ; more than 1 cubic meter, per month, 40 pfennigs (9.52 cents). The principal articles placed in the government warehouse com prise all kinds of alcoholic drinks, cigars, and tobacco, of which about 6 per cent are imported from the United States. The time goods remain in bond seldom exceeds six months. The removal of a Tariff of charges is on iile in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Com merce and Labor.

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