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

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

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

Walker answered that as he had made Trujillo a free port, the British claims were no longer valid.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)