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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NETHERLANDS: AMSTERDAM. 89 hides and skins, tin, etc., increases annually. Its position as a transit port for a large part of the Continent, of which it is one of the great gates, indicates its true importance and the character of the merchandise warehoused here. Hence the important part played by the Communal Entrepot dock and the other warehouses, of which the Blaauwhoedenveem may be taken as the most-developed type. Certain other warehouses restrict their business to one article; the Turperhoedenveem, for example, stores tobacco only. Much of the information contained in this report was furnished by the Blaauwhoedenveem, and applies particularly to that company. The services performed include clearing, receiving, warehousing, handling, delivering, and forwarding merchandise, and charging and discharging steamers. The scale of charges and an account of receipts and expenditures for handling merchandise can not be given. All kinds of merchandise are stored, but principally coffee, to bacco, flour, cocoa, and colonial produce. Goods can remain in bond for an unlimited time; only when they are entered for consumption must the import duty be paid. Goods in transit are not liable to duty. Americans do not make use of the warehouses directly, although American imported goods are stored in large quantities. All nation alities are treated exactly in the same way by the administrators of the warehouse. When steamers can not come alongside the warehouses for dis charging or loading, goods as a rule must be carried by lighter from the ship to the warehouses. Costs are charged per weight or per pack age, depending on the nature of the goods. The bonded warehouses are divided into public, private, and fictive °nes. The public warehouses belong to the city and are superin tended by customs officials. These warehouses, serving for storage °f all kinds of dutiable goods, are sealed by both the administration of the warehouses and the trade. A private warehouse is indicated by the merchants and approved by customs officials, and also sealed by both parties. The owner of a private bonded warehouse is respon sible for the goods stored in it, as to number of packages, weight, a nd contents. Fictive bonded warehouses may be used only for goods on which the duties are low and charged on the weight. These ai *e private warehouses of the merchants under their own su r veil- lance, not sealed by the customs officials. The merchants are respon sible for the number of packages and the weight. The public and Private bonded warehouses, under surveillance of the custom-house officers, are open for the public on all work days at the time stipu lated by the officers. The presence of the custom-house officers must bo paid for at the rate of 20 cents Dutch (8 cents United States) per hour, payable to the government. The rates per 100 kilos (220.46 pounds) charged by the Vriesse- v oein of Amsterdam on the principal staple articles are as follows for receiving from on board ship, transportation to warehouse, ware- bousing, and insurance for one month, delivery, and transportation to railway or steamer (but particular manipulations not included) : Coffee, 19^ cents; sugar, 8 7 ^ cents; tin, 13 t 7 j cents; cotton, 191 cents; s pices, 35f cents; indigo, 34| cents; tobacco, 26^ cents; gum damar j^d gum copal, 20 cents; kapok. 37£ cents ; hides, 30J cents; cocoa beans, 21-& cents; cinchona bark, 30& cents.

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