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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50 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. STORAGE OF GOODS. The kinds of goods chiefly stored are wines, liquors, coffee, tea, spices, tobacco, cotton yarns, and a great variety of imported textile merchandise, but the list includes to a greater or less extent every kind of dutiable merchandise that is imported to Germany. The average length of storage is stated to be about three months; the limit is five years. All nationalities are treated exactly alike by the administrators of the warehouses. Americans use them like the rest. The bonded warehouses in the free zones at Hamburg and Bremen are used more by American merchants doing business in Berlin than are the ware houses located here. American houses in Berlin import mainly shoes, tobacco, cigarettes, typewriters, machinery, cash registers, pianolas, etc., which are generally wanted even before they can be received and are taken out of the custom-house immediately upon arrival. Such American merchants in Berlin as do an export trade to Russia, Austria, Switzerland, and other European countries generally store goods on arrival in the bonded warehouses at Hamburg and Bremen, where they are separated from those coming to this city and reex ported directly from the port of first arrival. But, if desirable, the whole shipment from America or other foreign country may be brought to Berlin and a portion here set apart and reexported with out payment of duty. CUSTOMS SUPERVISION. The care and supervision exercised over goods stored in bond are very complete and comprehensive. The whole premises arc carefully inclosed, admission being granted only to persons with papers or other evidence showing that they have business there. The ware houses are in charge of superintendents with an ample force of watchmen, clerks, and porters, most of whom are uniformed and trained employees of the State. HANDLING OF GOODS. Porters and workmen who handle and assist in opening, weighing, repacking, and loading freight after assessment of duty are paid by the owner of the merchandise at the rate of GO pfennigs (15 cents) an hour, but the owner may bring his own men and wagons to perform such services in presence of himself or a responsible agent. The facilities for handling goods from boat or car to the ware house and vice versa include stationary and movable cranes, winches, trucks, industrial tracks with cars, and steam, electric, or hydraulic elevators. CHARGES. The schedule of Government charges at the bonded warehouses in Berlin, assessed in compliance with the statutes above quoted, are as follows: (A) Storage fees per 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds) per month: (1) For beer, liquors, vinegar, wines of all kinds, stored in covered rooms, 6^ cents; (2) for all other merchandise stored in cov ered buildings or sheds, 4£ cents; (3) for merchandise of all kinds

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