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because of more favorable conditions, are likely to harm similar activities
 in the domestic market or are of a nature to cause danger or inconvenience
 to the establishments or goods stored there. Goods are not
to be stored openly and exhibited to the public. Any goods, free of
duty or dutiable, which by regulations in force for the prevention of
Infection of diseases, human or animal, are subject to certain protective
 measures or which are entirely prohibited to be imported into the
tountry, are also prohibited to be imported into the free port, or as the
tase may be, are subject to the same protective measures as prescribed
 in the customs harbor. Foreign goods imported into the free
port may not be consumed or used within the free zone unless ordinary
duty has been paid. No building or set of rooms within the free
zone may be used as private residence.
Dispatch secured in unloading vessels.—The free port in Gothenburg
does not offer any special discharging or loading facilities as compared
With the customs harbor, for which reason the dispatch is the same
In either harbor for a vessel berthed at the quay. The only advantage
that the free port offers in connection with the discharging or loading
of vessels is that the port is fenced in, for which reason the work on
Quays, etc., is not disturbed by passers-by or onlookers.
Reconsignment and transshipment trade.—As the free port is still in
father an early state of development one can not say that the recon-Signment
 and transshipment trade has yet reached any considerable
extent, but it is evident that business men, who prior to the inauguration
 of the free port were compelled to use the customs harbor, have
how been able to build up rather an important transshipment trade.
So far, owing to the still rather unstable economic situation in the
Baltic States and Russia, this traffic has only been directed to Norway,
Denmark, and Finland, and the goods thus shipped mostly consist of
dried fruit, tea, coffee, and textiles. When economic conditions in
the Baltic States and Russia are normal again it is fully believed that
the reconsignment and transshipment traffic via the free port in
Gothenburg will reach large dimensions and the extension of the port
referred to, for which the city of Gothenburg has made plans, is then
®xpected to be carried out.
Shipbuilding and repairs and manufacturing.—So far neither shipbuilding
 nor ship repair are carried on in the free zone, but there is a
all factory for the manufacturing of silk neckties and two work-Shops
 for the making of sails. The latter are chiefly occupied in the
Manufacture of tarpaulins of American cloth.
Influence of free port on the development of foreign trade and of the
Merchant marine. — While the inauguration of the free port has proven
to be of considerable advantage to a number of American and other
foreign exporters and to some Swedish importers, the operations
®onducted in it can hardly be said to have had any large influence