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
A free port, sometimes called a free trade zone or special economic zone, is normally an area of a country where its taxes and tariffs do not apply.
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
As fascism tore apart Europe, Shanghai’s status as a free port made it a magnet for refugees.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2014
France.—Marseilles was a free port in the middle ages, and so was Dunkirk when it formed part of Flanders.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
