Free-port meaning

A port or an area of a port in which imported goods can be held or processed free of customs duties before reexport.
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A port open equally to ships of all countries.
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A port or zone where goods may be unloaded, stored, and reshipped without payment of customs or duties, if they are not imported.
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Free-port Sentence Examples

  • The German government in 1899 declared Kiaochow a free port.

  • deep), the Hansa dock, India dock, petroleum dock, several swimming and dry docks; and in the west of the free port area three other large docks, one of 77 acres for river craft, the others each 56 acres in extent, and one 234 ft.

  • Wei-hai-wei being a free port no duties of any kind are collected there.

  • The jurisdiction of the Free Port was on the 1st of January 1882 restricted to the city and port by the extension of the Zollverein to the lower Elbe, and in 1888 the whole of the state of Hamburg, with the exception of the so-called "Free Harbour" (which comprises the port proper and some large warehouses, set apart for goods in bond), was taken into the Zollverein.

  • It was a free port and had a considerable trade in wool and wine.

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