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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frange: nice. 43 capital of $250,000. The warehouse covers about 40,000 square feet of space and is said to have cost about $100,000. The company takes charge of merchandise, answers for its safety and preservation (if not perishable), but will not be held responsible for damage by fire. All merchandise on entering the warehouse pays a Gov ernment tax of 00 centimes ($0.1158) and, on leaving, one of 10 cen times ($0.0193) for each receipt or warrant representing such mer chandise. The company undertakes the loading and unloading of ves sels, but has not fixed a scale of charges for such services, charges de pending on the nature of the merchandise and the position of the vessel. Without twenty-four hours’ notice of the arrival of merchandise the company does not guarantee its immediate entry, nor assume responsi bility for damage. It repairs damaged or insecure cases at the ex pense of the owner and gives him notice thereof. A receipt is delivered giving the name of the owner, date of deposit, nature of the goods, their origin, the number, description, and marks °f the cases or packages, their measure or weight, and the sum for which the company itself has insured the goods. These receipts, are not t ransferable. For the delivery of goods the company requires twenty-four hours’ notice, and if goods are not removed within forty-eight hours there after they are considered to have been redeposited and new charges accrue. The charge for loading or unloading at entrance of ware house is for the owner to pay. If the work is done by the company the charge is 4 franc (9.65 cents) per ton. The charge for warehous ing is calculated by the gross ton, by number, or by the thousand francs ($193) of value. Special storage may be procured at 7 francs ' $1.35) per square yard of floor space per annum. The charge for Weighing is 80 centimes ( 15.44 cents) per ton. The company accepts merchandise and gives against it “ warrants,” °r receipts “ to order,” which may be indorsed or transferred in the f°rm and manner prescribed by the law of May 28, 1858, and the decree of March 12, 1859. The merchandise thus “warranted ” may be divided up into as many receipts as the owner may elect by his pay- ln g a tax of 2 francs ($0.386) for each receipt or “ warrant.” This eh arge includes the 60 centimes ($0.1158) mentioned above. The eompany will undertake to obtain advances upon these transfenable receipts on terms to be arranged and varying with the nature of the merchandise. The company has a bonded warehouse, which is under the super vision of a Government custom-house officer. At Nice the bulk of the merchandise stored is made up of grain, flour, wines, and oils. Amer ican exporters have not, up to the present, made any use of the ware house, where all nationalities are treated absolutely alike. Goods do ,l( >t remain in bond, as a rule, longer than six weeks. There are no special facilities for removal of goods from boat to warehouse and vice versa, and the estimated cost of such removal is said to be about 1 fi'anc ($0.193) per ton. 1'he cost of storage in the free warehouse varies widely, ranging from 1 franc ($0.193) per ton per month for such articles as charcoal, metal, wire, and sugar, to 4 francs ($0.965) for straw goods, and, except ionally, 20 francs ($3.86) for artistic statuary. In the bonded Warehouses prices for storage vary from 15 centimes ($0.028) per 100

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