ENGLAND:  LONDON.

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Goods  manifested  and  entered  at  the  custom-house  as  being  in  transit ­
  are  allowed  to  stay  for  one  month  without  paying  any  storage.
After  this  the  rates  are  the  same  as  given  above,  the  first  day’s  storage
being  charged  from  the  thirty-first  instead  of  the  ninth  day.
Every  class  of  goods  is  stored.  As  a  rule,  goods  remain  in  bond  a
very  limited  time,  perhaps  quite  90  per  cent  of  the  goods  imported
being  cleared  within  the  eight  days  allowed  imports  for  local  use  and
the  thirty  days  for  transit  goods.
It  is  quite  impossible  to  state  to  what  extent  Americans  make  use  of
these  warehouses,  no  statistics  being  obtainable,  and  there  being  no  relationship ­
  between  the  proportion  of  a  country’  exports  and  the  peculiar ­
  circumstances  which  lead  to  goods  being  allowed  to  remain  in
Warehouse  beyond  the  eight  days’  grace.  For  instance,  a  large  consignment ­
  of  a  cheap  line  of  goods  which  will  not  support  double  cartage ­
  (to  the  importer’s  store  and  again  to  the  buyer)  may  be  left  for  a
few  days  at  a  nominal  storage  until  the  entire  parcel  is  disposed  of,
Perhaps  part  for  transshipment  to  the  interior  and  the  remainder
locally.  All  nationalities  are  treated  exactly  alike  in  regard  to  warehousing. ­

As  regards  facilities  for  and  the  cost  of  removing  goods  from  boat
to  warehouse,  the  larger  steamship  companies  bring  their  ships  alongside ­
  the  wharf  and  discharge  directly  onto  the  quay.  Other  companies ­
  discharge  in  the  harbor  into  lighters  at  their  own  expense  and  the
lighters  are  then  brought  alongside  the  custom-house.  Anyway,  the
importer’s  charges  commence  only  on  the  quay,  for  which  dues  vary
from  2  piasters  (8.8  cents)  per  ton  on  clay  to  55|piasters  ($2.44)  per
ton  on  silks,  paintings,  feathers,  opium,  typewriters,  surgical  and
musical  instruments,  artificial  flowers,  gloves,  essences,  etc.  On  packages ­
  weighing  from  to  3  tons  the  quay  dues  are  at  double  these  rates.
Eor  packages  weighing  over  3  tons  special  arrangements  have  to  be
made  with  the  quay  company.  The  custom-house  carries  the  goods
Hito  warehouse  at  its  own  expense.  The  warehouses  being  part  and
parcel  of  the  custom-house,  they  are  entirely  under  the  care  and
supervision  of  the  customs  administration,  which  guards  them  with
its  own  watchmen.
Wm.  S.mtth-Lyte,
Vice  and  Deputy  Consul-General.
Constantinople,  Turkey,  September  12,1904.

UNITED  KINGDOM.
ENGLAND.
LONDON.
(From  United  States  Consul-General  Evans,  London,  England.)
I  regret  that  in  spite  of  inquiry  among  warehouse  owners,  dock  proprietors, ­
  and  shipping  companies,  I  have  been  unable  to  secure  details
°u  the  points  enumerated.  The  persons  interested  either  can  not
answer  the  questions  put  forth,  will  not  take  the  trouble  involved,  or
prefer  to  keep  the  information  within  their  own  knowledge.  From