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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46 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. have bought the products in America or en route. All charges and accommodations are the same for all nationalities. Often goods arrive in such a condition that they remain only a few days. The state of the market, the demand for consumption, the nature of the merchandise, and the economic and industrial situation render it impossible to indicate the length of time merchandise is stored. An approximation would be, perhaps, in the neighborhood of four months. HANDLING OF GOODS. When the goods to be entered are of considerable quantity, the ships from which they are discharged or into which they are em barked are moored alongside the wharf in front of the warehouses, and the loading or unloading is effected by carrying on the back when possible, or by rolling or trucking, or, in the case of heavy oils, by subterranean pipes. The same manner is employed in regard to the railway, the main line of which passes the doors and is connected with the interior courts by side tracks. The cost of this service is said to be exceedingly cheap at Rouen. CUSTOMS SUPERVISION. The custom-house officers have no supervision over goods entered fictively. Through the houses containing real storage, which pays to the state a higher tariff, officers pass about every three months in order to see that the merchandise upon which duty has not been paid still remains. Tiiornwell Haynes, Consul. Rouen, France, July 00,190J+. GERMANY. BERLIN. (From United States Consul-General Mason, Berlin, Germany.) Each State of the German Empire has its own system of bonded warehouses. That of Prussia was established by the statute of duly 1, 1869. Section 13 of this act,, paragraphs 97 to 110, inclusive, relates to bonded warehouses and their management, and is Irans- lated in full below. BUILDINGS AND MANAGEMENT. The bonded warehouses (Zollschuppen) in Berlin are included mainly in a group of office buildings, sheds, and warehouses located on the north bank of the river Spree, near the central portion of the city. They occupy an inclosed space of about 7 acres between the I river and the viaduct of the city elevated railway. This viaduct is a wide, heavy structure of masonry about 30 feet in height, the arched spaces beneath which are used as office and storage rooms. A large, handsome group of stone and brick office buildings forms the gate way to the inclosure near the Moltke Bridge, and in these are the |

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