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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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* 94 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. amounts of merchandise may be carried in the custom-house proper for about one year, but each withdrawal necessitates a new dispatch and additional expense. Geo. H. Pickerill, Consul. St. Michaels, Azores, September 24,1904. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG. (From United States Consul-General Watts, St. Petersburg, Russia.) Several buildings are used by the Government customs authorities and by others for the storage of merchandise in transit or in bond in this city. It has been impossible to secure the dimensions and orig inal cost of warehouses, even approximately. They are owned and conducted by the Government, by corporations, and by individual merchants, generally tea and tobacco merchants, all under the surveil lance of the Government customs officials. The principal warehouse in this city, second only to the Government customs warehouse, is one conducted by a corporation of workmen known as the Bourse Artel, who rent their building, containing thirty-five rooms, from the Bourse Corporation. There are also warehouses owned and con ducted by the Government on an island near the city for the storage of inflammable or combustible goods. Receipts and expenditures on account of service are not obtainable. Service is very slow from the American standpoint, but otherwise satisfactory. Careful inspec tion of goods is made on arrival and on departure and reasonable security is given for goods stored. The scale of charges for storage in the Government customs warehouses is as follows: Under cover, one- sixth of 1 kopeck (one-twelfth of 1 cent) per pood (36 pounds) per day ; and outside, one forty-fifth of 1 kopeck per pood per day. In the Bourse Artel warehouse the charge for a room 14 by 21 feet is 500 rubles ($250) per year or 50 rubles ($25) per month. The principal goods stored in transit or in bond are tea, tobacco, wines, machinery, and dry goods. Goods remain in bond on an average of about three months. They are sometimes promptly removed; sometimes they remain for the full term of one year, which is the limit of time; if not removed by that time they are sold at public auction. Americans make little or no use of these warehouses, but all nationalities are sup posed to be treated exactly alike by the administrators. The Government customs warehouses and that of the Bourse Artel are situated close to the river Neva and very convenient for the han dling of goods, but they are a great distance from the railroads, re quiring long hauls by wagons. The other warehouses are in various parts of the city. The care and supervision exercised over the warehouses by custom house officials are very rigid, and smugglers are severely dealt with when found. Etiielbert Watts, Consul-General. St. Petersburg, Russia, July 21,1904•

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