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
Congress actually passed a bill in 1932 making these buildings a free port, which enabled importers to bring goods in duty free and store them on the premises — a commercial masterstroke.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2020
For Ben Houchen, the Mayor of the Tees Valley and the man behind the idea, turning Teesside into a free port is just common sense.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2018
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
And even if surrendered with the guarantee of its being a free port, according to the Bulwer and Clayton treaty, the State must derive great advantage from it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
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