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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
payment of import duty, they must be so declared at the time of their 
arrival. Goods once declared for importation can not be trans 
shipped to a foreign port without the payment of duty, and no rebate 
is allowed on reexported goods on which duty has been paid. 
The customs regulations provide that at ports where there are no 
customs warehouses, if goods for importation or exportation are not 
removed within seventy-two hours after their arrival at the customs 
sheds, the customs authorities may arrange for their storage in pri 
vate warehouses at the risk and expense of the parties concerned. 
Under this provision arrangements have been made with Messrs. 
Samuel Samuel & Co. for such storage in their warehouses at the 
ports of Tamsui and Killing. This company has four brick ware 
houses at the first-named port, in which can be stored about 2,000 tons 
of cargo at one time. When goods are placed in these warehouses by 
the customs authorities they take possession of the keys. At these 
ports the cost of removing goods from ship to warehouses, and vice 
versa, varies with different classes of goods from 35 cents for ordi 
nary goods to $1.20 United States currency per ton for machinery 
and heavy pieces. The bar at the mouth of the Tamsui River will 
not permit vessels of deeper draft than 13 feet to enter the harbor. 
There are limited pier accommodations at that port. At Kilung a 
temporary pier has been constructed for the accommodation of ves 
sels of not more than 4,000 gross tons. When these piers are used 
the cost of removal is reduced to from 10 to 40 cents United States 
currency per ton. 
At the port of Anping, in addition to their sheds, the customs have 
two storing rooms with a capacity of 075 tons each. As the anchor 
age at that port is about 2£ miles from the shore the cost of removing 
goods from ship to storing room, and vice versa, is increased to from 
00 cents to $1.75 United States currency per ton. 
There is one customs storing room at the port of Takao with a 
capacity of 450 tons. The anchorage is about 1 mile from shore and 
the cost of removal is from 55 cents to $1.50 United States currency 
per ton. 
At all the ports goods are removed by lighters and cooly labor. 
The charge per day for storage, whether in the customs rooms or 
in private warehouses, is computed on the following scale in United 
States currency: Packed goods, 1£ cents per cubic foot; unpacked 
goods, 1| cents per cubic foot or 133 pounds; explosives, 24 cents per 
cubic foot or 133 pounds; precious goods, 0.001 ad valorem. 
All nations are treated exactly alike in the storage of goods by the 
customs authorities. Americans do not make use of these storage 
facilities to any great extent. 
Fred D. Fisher, Consul. 
Tamsui, Formosa, Avgust 00,190J t . 
JAVA. 
(From, United States Consul Rairden, Batavia, Java.) 
The Government warehouses at Tandjong Priok (Batavia new 
harbor) are from 400 to 600 feet long and about 60 feet broad. These 
warehouses extend the entire length of the quay—about 3,000 feet.