206 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES 
Customs control of the free port is exercised by an inspector who 
receives an annual salary of 8,000 pesetas (about $1,300 at present 
exchange), and three to four carabineers, or customs guards, at 
salaries of 220 pesetas (about $35) a month each. 
Regulations relative to free port—Regulations for the operation of 
the free port at Almeria provide that all goods, domestic or foreign, 
entering the free port shall be exempt from the payment of transport 
fees and port dues, as well as from all national, provincial, or munici- 
pal taxes, except such goods as may be introduced into the munici- 
pality of Almeria, which shall become subject to local taxes. Foreign 
goods reexported from the free zone also shall be exempt from all the 
charges mentioned, but domestic goods exported shall pay all dues 
and taxes to which they would have been subject had they been 
directly exported. 
The regulations further provide that merchandise entering Spain 
from the free port shall be subject to customs duties and all other 
usual charges, the same as if directly imported, and that containers 
of all kinds, domestic or foreign, taken into the free zone for packing 
purposes, shall not be subject to the usual charges if the goods they 
contain are destined for exportation. 
Operations in free zone.—The royal order granting the concession 
for the free port at Almeria gave the concessionaire the right to carry 
on the following operations: 
Repacking of merchandise in different containers. 
Division of goods for the preparation of commercial grades. 
Mixture of goods, with the same object. 
Hulling and toasting of coffee and cacao. 
Working of hides and skins. 
Grinding of wood. 
Washing of wool. 
Extraction of oil from copra and from oleaginous seeds. 
All operations which, without essentially changing the character of goods; 
increase their value. 
Importation of crude petroleum products and coal for supplying vessels, after 
making any necessary divisions and mixtures. } 
The concession also covered the handling of all kinds of merchandise 
the importation of which into Spain is not prohibited by existing laws, 
and of all kinds of domestic products the exportation of which is not 
prohibited. Tobacco in leaf or manufactured is prohibited importé- 
tion into Spain except for the tobacco monopoly, and it was provided 
in the regulations of the free port that packages of tobacco should 
be sealed on entering the deposit, and that removal should be author” 
ized only for the exclusive use of the monopoly, or for exportation 
No operations were specifically prohibited in the concession OF 
regulations.