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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42 WAREHOUSES TN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. ducted by a manager. The service is considered satisfactory from every point of view. Storage charges vary, according to the articles stored, from 3 cents per metric ton per month for cast iron to $1.93 for raw silk or vanilla, and $3.80 for nondangerous essences. 0 In 1903 the receipts for storage amounted to 200,000 francs ($38,000), and the expenses to 148,000 francs ($28,504). The goods principally stored in lhe warehouses are sugar, cocoa, coffee, olive oil, rum, and pepper. Americans do not use the ware houses at all ; in fact, they are used almost exclusively by the French. All nationalities are, however, treated exactly alike by the adminis trators of the warehouses. There is no rule as to the length of time the goods may remain in bond. They may remain a week, a month, six months, or a year or more. The administration of the warehouses has under its orders a corps of porters who can be employed for the removal of the goods from boat to warehouses and vice versa, and who are paid according to the tariff established, which is as follows per 2,204.0 pounds: Discharging of merchandise upon the quays, 19.3 cents; weighing of merchan dise by the customs inspectors, 9.0 cents; removing of merchandise into the warehouses and storing it therein, 19.3 cents; total, 48.2 cents. The removal of the merchandise from the warehouses to the quays and thence on board the boats involves about the same operation and charges as above. A comptroller and inspector of customs are specially attached to the warehouscs-nnd have under their orders a staff of agents. They have duplicate keys to the warehouses, with right of access at all times. They receive, examine, and record all declarations of entry and exit of goods and collect any duties that may be assessed. The utmost care is exercised, and the goods are carefully stored and han dled in every way. The administration of the warehouses does not act as the receiver of goods shipped here for storage in bond or otherwise assume any responsibility in connection with that operation ; it conducts no cor respondence on the subject and appears in the affair only as the pro prietor and manager of the warehouses and consequently as the cus todian of the goods after their delivery. Goods shipped here for stor age must therefore be consigned to an agent who must receive and deliver them to the warehouses. There are numerous agents at Nantes ready to undertake this operation. Benj. II. Ridgely, Consul. Nantes, France, July 0/, 190)]. NICE. (From United States Vice-Consul Piattt, Nice, France.) There is at Nice a warehouse for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond owned and managed by an incorporated company having a «Table of charges in detail on file in Bureau of Statistics, Department of Com merce and Labor.

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