Excerpt from Information Concerning Free Zones in Ports of the United States The act of September 8, 1916, creating the United States Tariff Commission (sec. 702) declares: It shall be the duty of said commission to investigate the administration of the customs laws of this country to investigate the operation of customs laws, and to submit reports of its Investigations. The duty of investigating the administration of the customs laws carries with it a consideration of the bonded warehouse, bonded manufacturing warehouse, and drawback systems as instrumentalities for assisting reexport in foreign trade. The free zone, as an alternative and supplementary device to this end, requires con sideration. Specific request for investigation and report on this subject was made by the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee August 16, 1917. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.