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FOREIGN TRADE ZONES 
free port, respectively, at 5-year intervals between 1900 and 1925, 
and in the vears 1926 and 1927. 
Vagp 
ND co A eS 
Bn 0 A 
Vm _. mee 
General harbor 
Number 
Tonnage 
18, 740 
1€, 016 . 
“6, 003 Ww 
18,499 © 
13, 364 5 
15,637 | {en 
16, 660 2 854 
16, 922 4, 064 
Thous. md 
2 65° 
Free port 
Number | Tonnage 
Thousands 
2,204 685 
2,127 1,048 
196 1,329 
1,973 1,047 
1,825 964 
1,757 | 1,271 
1,730 1,351 
1,726 1,471 
Statistics covering growth of commerce and shipping in free port, 
etc.—The number and tonnage of vessels entering the free port in 
the period from 1900 to 1927 are given in the preceding table. 
The table following shows the tonnage (metric) of foreign mer- 
chandise, which was discharged in the free port, and of shipments 
abroad of merchandise undistinguished as to origin, that is, partly 
domestic and partly foreign, from the free port, in the years 1917 
to 1926, inclusive, the merchandise in both cases being distributed 
into 25 groups corresponding to those used in statistical records at 
hand, * * *