free port

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Odesa’s free port status financed its extraordinary architectural flowering in the 1800s and helped build its vibrant multiethnic society.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2024

Returning to its pre-revolutionary status of a free port, Vladivostok and the region is now subject to special custom and tax rules.

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2015

He suggests such a government could "carve out a duty free port of call", and be able to do business with other nations.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2015

Other collectors, she added, are starting to move their art to the free port of Luxembourg, where they can store it while the political process unfolds.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2015

Russia.—Archangel was a free port, at least for English goods, from 1553 to 1648.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various