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
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
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
On my arrival, I repeated what I had written; namely, the idea of getting New Orleans, or at least to advise the Spaniards to make it a free port.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12) by Various
