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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ITALY: LEGHORN. 77 storage of goods in transit or intended for reexport. Tn addition there is a group of buildings, with a total area of about 6,000 square yards, located at what is known as the Punto Franco, just outside the customs limits, and owned and managed by the municipality. Mer chandise stored in the warehouses located in the custom-house is under the direct care and responsibility of the customs officials. The owners are allowed the privilege of verifying goods and taking samples, but the merchandise must be reexported or sent forward in bond in the same condition in which it was received. Charges for storage in these warehouses are fixed at 1 centesimo (one-fifth of a cent) per day for each bale, crate, or case weighing not more than 1 quintal (22Ò pounds). For each quintal or fraction thereof in excess the charge is at the same rate of 1 centesimo per day. The ?cale of charges at the warehouses owned by the municipality is given iu a pamphlet“ sent herewith, and varies according to the class of merchandise received. This pamphlet also gives in detail the rules governing the service rendered. Most goods are stored in these ware houses. . Receipts at the custom-house warehouses are not important, vary- ll )g, as they do, from $800 to $900 annually; expenditures can not be (Oven. The municipal warehouses have a gross income of from $8,000 to $9,000 a year and expend about $3,000 for management, etc. Drugs and spices, liquors, grain, paraffin, fabrics, machinery, chemical products, oils, varnishes, and spirits are the chief goods Placed in storage. American products warehoused are principally cotton-seed oil, wheat, corn, paraffin, agricultural implements, and sewing machines. Merchandise deposited in the custom-house Warehouses is classified, as it is expressed, as being in either direct or temporary custody. Under temporary custody it is, as a rule, with drawn in a few days, but in any case is not allowed to remain more |han three months. Under direct custody the limit is two years. At the Punto Franco there is no limit as to the time goods may remain store. » , All nationalities are treated alike in the custom-house warehouses, hut in those owned by the municipality only goods coming from those countries with which the State has a commercial convention are admitted. Actually, this rule excludes from the privilege of storage a U merchandise coming from Portugal, Canada, Australia, and India, a nd certain classes of goods from Spain. . The cost of removal from steamer to warehouse is from $1.55 to $1-75 per gross ton for goods which it is necessary to weigh on ?cales. Coal, grain, and similar merchandise, the weight of which ls estimated by measure, pays from 97 cents to $1.16 the ton. Vice V( Wsa, from warehouse to ship, the expense is from 37 to 58 cents a ton. p Goods stored in the custom-house warehouses, as well as at the .unto Franco, are guarded night and day by the custom-house offi- ? la ls, and in the latter case also by municipal guards. Bonded ware houses owned by individuals or firms do not exist here, although s °me of the larger importing firms lease rooms or space by the year °Ou ine in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.

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