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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BELGIUM : GHENT. 19 and the affixing and preservation of the labels. The employees of the customs service are attached to it to assist in carrying out the service by specially guarding each of the magazines of the warehouses. The keys to the warehouses and those of the magazines are in the custody of the warehouse keeper. He, when need arises, satisfies himself with the commission that the premises and buildings of the warehouse are kept in good condition, and guarantees the security and preservation required. lie makes all necessary repairs in good season. A workman is employed by the city to keep the premises clean. The receipts of the warehouses are turned over quarterly to the credit of the city by the warehouse keeper, 2 per cent being retained hy the Central Government for expenses of collection. The city has no expense except to keep the warehouses in good repair. The ware houses are exempt from land and personal taxes. PAYMENT OF DUTY. The regulations require the payment of duty when the goods are taken out for use, but do not demand payment of duty when (he goods are in transit. The scale of charges for storage is as follows: Lumber, per square yard of surface occupied, $0.01; wood for furniture making, per 220.46 pounds, $0.01; coal, per 220.46 pounds, $0-01; spices, per 220.46 pounds, $0.04 ; flour and starch, per 220.46 pounds, $0,016; beans and peas, in cases, per 220.46 pounds, $0,016; beans and peas, in bulk, per 2 bushels, 3.35 pecks, $0,008; fruits, green, per 220.46 pounds, $0.03: fruits, dried, per 220.46 pounds, $0.02; grain and seeds, per 2 bushels, 3.35 pecks, $0,016; liquids, in barrels, per 26.5 gallons, $0.02; liquids, in bottles, per 26.5 gallons, $6-03; hops, in bulk, 220.46 pounds, $0.02 ; textile materials, mechan ically pressed, per 220.46 pounds, $0.02; textile materials, in bales, per 220.46 pounds, $0,024; cement, under cover, per 220.46 pounds, $0,006 ; ores and stones, under cover, per 220.46 pounds, $0.02 ; crude iron, etc., under cover, per 220.46 pounds, $0,006; machines, etc., under cover, per 220.46 pounds, $0.02. STORAGE OF GOODS. All foreign merchandise upon which duty is levied is received in fhe public warehouses, except things which are dangerous for other merchandise, as inflammable merchandise, and living animals, salt, otc. The warehouse keeper also receives any merchandise manu factured in Belgium which is subject to the excise laws, such as sugar, distilled liquors, etc., upon which it is desired to defer the pay ment of the excise taxes. At Ghent, the principal merchandise stored in the warehouses is tobacco in hogsheads, boxes, and bales; foreign sugar, dried fruits, and domestic sugar. Americans do not directly make use of the warehouses, but they ean use them, as the merchandise is a guaranty for the customs duties and warehouse dues. Belgian buyers of American tobacco store all the tobacco for which they have not immediate use. There m no distinction made as to the treatment of the different nationali ties by the administrators of the warehouses. While some kinds of merchandise may remain in the warehouses

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