free port
Americannoun
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a port or special section of a port where goods may be unloaded, stored, and shipped without payment of customs duties.
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a port open under equal conditions to all traders.
noun
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a port open to all commercial vessels on equal terms
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Also called: free zone. a zone adjoining a port that permits the duty-free entry of foreign goods intended for re-export
Etymology
Origin of free port
First recorded in 1705–15
Example Sentences
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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
It may be that a free port and international status for the town, with Italian sovereignty in cultural questions, would best serve the Allied and European cause, especially during the years of transition.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2020
But now there is a plan to transform and revitalise this area by turning it into a free port.
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
And even if surrendered with the guarantee of its being a free port, according to the Bulwer and Clayton treaty, the State must derive great advantage from it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
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