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
Jonty Bloom reports from Teesside, which plans to become the UK's first free port, offering customs-free imports and hoping to bring back manufacturing jobs.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2018
As a free port, it was excluded from Europe’s customs union, allowing it to build up its trading and services activities on advantageous transit and taxation terms.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2016
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
Walker answered that as he had made Trujillo a free port, the British claims were no longer valid.
From Gentlemen Rovers by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
