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

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82 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. houses till it. is taken out. It guarantees that its workmen and employees will be acceptable to the custom-house authorities. It is responsible for the care and preservation of goods warehoused, except the damage and waste arising from their inherent nature or condition. Thje company can not be held responsible for damage or waste of goods which, (1) not intended for warehousing, are not taken away from the quays the day of their verification or inspection by the cus toms officials; (2) having been withdrawn from the warehouse, have not been removed from the uncovered courtyards the day of their verification or inspection by the custom-house. In case the inspection of merchandise (except wood or metals) by the custom-house officials is finished just before the closing of the gates, so that it is impossible to take away the goods, the company will assume charge for the night only, at a tariff of 3 centimes (0.579 cent) per 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds). Merchandise can not be shifted in the warehouses without permission of the owners. The company will receive for storage goods which have been landed elsewhere than in its docks, or goods which have been stored in private warehouses. A notice must be sent to the company forty-eight hours before the merchandise is delivered. It must give the name and flag of the vessel in which the goods were imported, the number of pack ages, their value, and, as near as possible, the weight of the merchan dise. The company will not be responsible for the quantities declared nor for the weights of the goods which have not been weighed and escorted by the custom-house officials. The company will, at the expense of the owner of the goods, repack packages which are not in proper condition to be received at the warehouse. The different services which the company will perform in connec tion with the reception and discharge of merchandise are grouped in several classes to conform with the official tariff. They consist in breaking out cargo from the holds of vessels, discharging, transport ing from the quays to the covered courts or warehouses, and storing, weighing, sorting the packages according to their origin and marks, or classifying them according to the customs tariff, separating damaged goods, furnishing detailed lists of weights to those concerned, in case of an arbitration arranging the goods for the arbitrators, rebaling, repacking, and recoopering packages, supplying the material for and ballasting ships, loading and storing cargoes, and carting, delivery, and lighterage of goods. In addition, the company will attend to all the formalities required by the custom-house and octroi officials in connection with merchan dise to be stored in or shipped from the bonded warehouses, and will settle questions of freight and other matters which may arise between the captains of vessels and consignees. ' CHARGES. The charges for all the above services are made according to a fixed tariff approved by ministerial decree The charges, except those for repacking and recoopering, are per 100 kilograms (220.40 pounds)- per hectoliter (2.84 bushels or 20.42 gallons), per number, or per 1,000 francs ($193) of value, without fractions, and calculated upon

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