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FOREIGN TRADE ZONES 
shipment trade of this port is restricted to destinations on the Dal- 
matian coast, and may be considered negligible. The principal 
articles which arrived by sea and were transshipped at Fiume during 
the vears 1913, 1925, and 1926 were as follows: 
A] co cs i ma 
B08 onium mmm ann as wasn 
Metallic minerals. ome. 
1913 
Tons 
£,648 
15, 218 
27 
1925 
Tons 
2. 548 
Z, 486 
1, 897 
1928 
Tone 
34, 166 
4,084 
5. 009 
There is apparently no consignment trade at Sulina, Rumania, as 
this is but a port of call for ocean-going steamers on their way to the 
terminals of Galatz and Braila. The transshipment trade is entirely 
confined to grain, timber, and oil cake brought into the port from 
upriver ports on lighters and loaded direct on ocean-going steamers. 
In 1927,84 per cent of the imports of the Greek free port of Saloniki 
were destined for consumption in Greece, chiefly Greek Macedonia, 
and in 1926, 85 per cent; while only 14 and 15 per cent, respectively, 
consisted of transit and reexport business. Statistics for the port 
show the volume of imports entering the free port during the years 
1926 and 1927 as 445,597 tons and 457,928 tons, respectively, while 
the exports for the same years were 59,769 tons and 44,437 tons, 
respectively. 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 (tons).._.__. 
Livestock (head). ..... 
Birds (head) - ccwccmccmcaann. 
Lumber (cubic meters)... __.--- 
Reshipped to other Greek ports (fons). oo. 
In transit to other countries (fons) ___ oo... 
Remaining in free zone at end of year (fons) __. ._.____. 
As might be anticipated, not all of the free ports of Europe have 
shown an important development of trade involving either the trans- 
shipment of foreign goods or the storing and later sale and distribution 
of such goods. It is inevitable that this business will be concentrated 
chiefly at important trade centers having extensive vessel service and 
extensive commercial relations with other nations. It is not to be 
expected that the reexport business will in the usual case equal the 
imports for consumption, nor the domestic exports. The information