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FREE PORT OF BARCELONA 
Change of containers of merchandise. 
Division of merchandise to prepare commercial classes. 
. Mixture of different classes for the same purposes. 
. Shelling and toasting of coffee and cocoa. 
3. Cutting of hides. 
6. Grinding of wood. 
7. Washing of wool. 
3. Extraction of oil from copra and oleaginous seeds and its solidification and 
1ydrogenization. 
9. Rendering useless and cutting up of old iron so that duty may be levied 
ander item 257 of the existing tariff. 
10. Rendering useless solid and pneumatic tires and inner tubes, imported or 
ot in bulk, and cutting them into pieces, so that duties may be assessed under 
‘tems 1507 and 1508 of the tariff. 
11. Mounting, painting, and upholstery of automobiles and completing of their 
*quipment. 
12. Formation of postal packages and registered packages. 
13. Labeling merchandise subject to this requirement when destined for con- 
sumption. 
14. All operations which augment the value of the merchandise deposited 
¥ithout varying essentially its nature. 
In spite of the fact that certain concrete cases are enunciated above 
as specially authorized, it can be stated that the operations permitted 
are as varied as the classes of merchandise stored. Case 14 is so gen- 
oral in its nature that it permits a wide variety of manipulations and 
Operations. 
Apparatus, machinery, tools, etc., which are Spanish, or which have 
deen imported into Spain, when introduced into the free deposit may 
remain there for an indefinite time and will not be required to pay 
duties on their re-importation into the country. Foreign apparatus 
and machinery for the purpose of carrying out these transformations 
are subject only to the same formalities on entrance as other mer- 
chandise, with the difference that they may remain in the free deposit 
more than four years if it is shown to be necessary to continue the 
transformations. Mention may be made of the fact that items 11, 
12, and 13 of the list of operations permitted were only authorized 
during the past year. A number of the operations mentioned evi- 
dently require machinery and equipment and have not so far been 
‘arried out. Probably they will not be to any great extent until 
the definite installation of the free port. 
Merchandise entered in the free deposit, whether it has been subject 
0 manipulation or not, may be disposed of on leaving it in the follow- 
ng ways: 
By importation into the country through the customhouse at Barcelona. 
By importation into the country through another customhouse. 
By sending to another free deposit. 
By exportation abroad. 
For the supplying of vessels. (According to Royal Order No. 13 of the Minis- 
ry of Finance dated December 29. 1626.) 
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