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Exception is made in the case of the salt destined for the Yugoslav 
State Salt Monopoly, which, under a special ruling made by the 
Greek free zone administration, has been authorized to be unloaded 
in the Yugoslav free zone in order to facilitate its loading on railway 
trucks and avoid a congestion of the Greek free zone. For the same 
reason the Greek free zone has provisionally exempted the unloading 
and storing in its area of certain other bulky commodities, such as 
fuel wood, certain minerals, lumber, livestock, etc., belonging to the 
Yugoslav trade. 
In speaking of the traffic of the Greek free zone, it must be borne 
in mind that all the imports into the port of Saloniki, whether destined 
for consumption in Greece or whether for transit to other countries, 
are entered in the Greek free zone, with the few exceptions cited 
above. 
The statistics of the imports into the Greek free zone are sometimes 
misleading and are taken as representing transit traffic whose ultimate 
destination may be the Balkan and other Central European countries. 
However, 84 per cent of the imports into the Greek free zone in 1927 
and 85 per cent in 1926 were destined for consumption in Greece, 
chiefly Greek Macedonia, and only 14 and 15 per cent, respectively, 
sonsisted of transit and reconsignment trade. 
While the total imports into the Greek free zone increased from 
445,597 tons in 1926 to 457,928 tons in 1927, the exports from the 
free zone to foreign destinations declined from 59,769 tons in 1926 
to 44,437 tons in 1927. This decrease was primarily due to a decrease 
in the cereal crops in southern Yugoslavia and a consequent decline 
in the exports of this commodity through the Greek free zone. The 
efforts of the Yugoslav Government to encourage Yugoslav merchants 
to use its Adriatic ports also contributed to this decline, 
The entire movement of the Greek free zone for the year 1927 was 
as follows: 
Imports of— 
General merchandise (tons). 
Livestock (head)... _. 
Birds (head) _______.. 
Lumber (cubic meters) 
These imports were disposed of as follows: 
Entered in customhouse at Saloniki for Greek consumption: 
General merchandise (fons)... 
Livestock (head) .__ 
Birds (head) ___.__ 
Lumber (cubic meters) oo _.-. 
Reshipped to other Greek ports (tons). . 
[n transit to other countries (tons). voce. em mmmm————— 
Remaining in the Greek free zone at the end of the year (tons). _._... 
m---. 363,624 
270 
2, 336 
56, 735 
34, 460 
44, 437 
15. 407