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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
to the harbor dues, scheduled on folio 6 of Ceylon customs tariff of
1903, likewise herewith annexed. For further replies to queries in
the Department circular, I inclose herewith a copy of a report by the
collector of customs at Colombo, courteously furnished me by the
local government.
W. Mokev, Consul.
Colombo, Ceylon, August 10, 1001¡..
Letter from collector of customs at Colombo, Ceylon.
I have the honor to inclose a copy of the Ceylon customs tariff « in which the
rates for rent and dues for goods in bond or transit, respectively, are given.
The bonded warehouses are in charge of the bonded warehouse keeper and
lockers, and the transit warehouses of landing waiters. I have no information
as to the cost, nor can I give the dimensions of the various warehouses. The
transit warehouses are owned by the government, and the bonded warehouses
are either leased to the wharfage company or owned by private parties.
A very large variety of goods are stored from time to time. Americans make
very little use of the bonded or transit stores. Goods remain in bond for from
a few days to a year or more. All nations are treated alike.
I can not give the cost of removal from boat to bond.
Every package is carefully checked into bond or transit warehouses, as the
case may be, and can only be removed on duly perfected documents being submitted.
W. H. Jackson,
Principal Collector of Customs.
CHINA.
AMOY.
(From United States Consul Fcsler, Amoy, China.)
There are no bonded warehouses in this port for public use.
Large quantities of tea are shipped here from Formosa to bo
matted and marked for reexportation to the United States and
England. Each tea firm has its own warehouse for the storage of
this tea. At the beginning of the tea season each year each firm gives
the customs a bond, agreeing to reexport, within two years of the
time of importation, all tea so imported, or to pay the import dues
at the end of that time on such part of the tea as has not been reexported.
The goods are then free from customs supervision, except
for the necessary permit for reexportation at the time of reshipment.
The duties on other importations are paid at the time of arrival,
or the goods are kept in the customs warehouse until the amount
due is paid. The following is the schedule of customs fees:
FEES FOR STORAGE IN CUSTOMS GODOWN.
1. On goods stored but cleared off customs premises in twenty-four hours—
no fee.
2. On goods stored from Saturday night till Monday, but cleared during
working hours on the last-named day—10 cents per package.
3. On goods stored for a portion of a week—15 cents per package.
4. On goods stored for a whole week or longer—5 cents per day per package.
5. Goods can not be stored for a longer period than thirty days.
John H. Fesler, Consul.
Amoy, China, August 4, 190£.
a On file in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.
