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FOREIGN TRADE ZONES 
tariff rate placed upon the article by the regular customs act, and it 
must be equal to the port duty collected in the customs port of Copen- 
hagen. The latter tax is calculated upon the basis of one-tenth of a 
registered ton. Even if the rate upon any article does not reach the 
amount usually paid for one-tenth of a registered ton, payment will be 
made upon this basis. The products obtained in the territory of the 
free- port must on entry into the territory of the Danish customhouse 
submit to the regulations which may at anv time be established under 
the ordinary tariff acts. 
Malmo.—Goods may be stored, examined and tested, repacked and 
divided in the free harbor without payment of customs duties, transit 
dues, cost of surveillance, or other dues to the public treasury. The 
retail sale of ships’ provisions and other necessities is permitted under 
regulations designed to prevent improper disposition of such goods. 
Other retail trade is prohibited. Special permission of the King is 
required for conducting industrial activities, but it is reported that 
such permission may be readily procured. Permission for industrial 
activities does not include book printing, job printing, or other 
activities of a like nature which because of more favorable conditions 
in the free port 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 which according to 
regulations in force for the prevention of infectious human or animal 
diseases are subject to certain protective provisions or which are en- 
tirely prohibited importation into the country are also prohibited to 
be imported into the free port or are subject to the same protective 
measures as prescribed in the customs harbor. 
Stockholm. —The free port at Stockholm is used mainly as a port 
for the transshipment and reconsignment of merchandise. Goods 
may be unpacked, divided, and repacked in larger or smaller parcels, 
and they may be inspected by the consignee or persons authorized by 
him. More liberal free storage time is allowed for goods intended for 
reexport than for other goods. Manufacturing activities are per- 
mitted only when sanctioned by the King. All retail trade within 
the free zone is prohibited. 
Gothenburg.—At the free port of Gothenburg merchandise may be 
landed, stored, and manufactured into more valuable products and 
shipped out again to other parts of the world without payment of 
tariff. Goods may be sorted out, parceled, or treated in any other 
way without payment of customs dues. Retail trade is not permitted 
in the free port. However, if permission be obtained from the King, 
the sale of victuals and other ship chandler’s goods may take place 
on certain conditions. Permission to carry on industrial activities 
does not include book printing or similar activities. Goods are to 
be stored openly and exhibited to the public and foreign goods