Spain: Barcelona.
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ODESSA.
(From United States Consul Hcenan, Odessa, Russia.)
The only warehouses here are the customs stores at the port and
elsewhere in the town in which goods arriving from abroad are placed
or stored for examination on which to base the amount of customs
duties to be paid. Goods may remain in these stores as long as the
storage charges are paid. Goods in transit from Odessa to some point
in the interior, such as cotton or tea, are simply loaded into cars on
the quay by the customs authorities and forwarded to their destination.
When the destination is Kiev, Moscow, etc., the duties are paid
at these large centers, otherwise at Odessa. There are no private
bonded warehouses at this port, but the customs regulations here
permit the storage of such articles as tea in the private storehouse of
the importer, said storehouse being in charge of customs officials. Tea
is imported largely at Odessa from China, Japan, and India, and it
is tested and mixed here to suit the Russian taste. . Tea is also exported
from this port to the United States, and the trade is growing.
The large addition to the population of New York and elsewhere
from Russia accounts for this new trade. Tea which remains in the
•storehouse above mentioned is not required to pay duty until such
time as it is removed. Tea exported from these stores is not required
to pay duty.
Thos. E. Heenan, Consul.
Odessa, Russia, June 29,190J.
SPAIN.
BARCELONA. V
(From United States Vice-Cunsul-Ocncral Rider, Barcelona, Spain.)
The port of Barcelona is now provided with a number of small
Warehouses where goods can be stored on payment of a monthly rent,
f he only large warehouses, however, are those known by the names
\Crédito y Docks de Barcelona,” “Almacenes Generales de Comercio,"
and “ Vda. de A. Nelma.” The two former have refused to
furnish me with any information whatever, in spite of repeated requests,
and I am therefore compelled to confine my report to the
‘ Vda. de A. Xelma ” warehouses. These cover an area of about
05,000 square feet, and the cost of the site and building was 250,000
pesetas ($35,714). They are owned by the widow of A. Xelma, and
urc under the management of José M. Serra. These warehouses are
extensively used by merchants who have no stores of their own or
whose warehouses are too small.
The following is the scale of charges per 100 kilos (220.46 pounds) :
f or entering and storing, 5 centavos (0.7 cent) ; rent and fire insurance
for one month, 6 centavos (0.85 cent) ; clearing goods from warehouse,
5 centavos; weighing, 5 centavos; measuring, when required,
] u sacks of 70 liters (7.9457 pecks), costs 5 centavos (0.7 cent) per
cuartera, a dry measure containing about 15 pecks.
