Entrepot


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Entrepot

1. A port where goods can be imported from a ship, stored, and then re-exported or transported to their final destination.

2. More generally, a warehouse.
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Wei, "Outsourcing Tariff Evasion: A New Explanation for Entrepot Trade," NBER Working Paper No.
Measuring tariff evasion and smuggling
When looking at the Importers table (this page), the same mercantile entrepots also have outsized import ratios, the measure of imports versus total consumption.
Exports surge
Frequent use of technical terms such as entrepot without adequate definition will be problematic for the general reader, as will the author's much-repeated use of ante bellum, a term little used by Michiganians and in standard Michigan histories.
West to Far Michigan: Settling the Lower Peninsula, 1815-1860
This is perhaps appropriate for a country which aspires to be the region's major trading entrepot and the leading transport and communications centre.
Lower earnings, slower growth
Viewed auctions in major market towns: Newport again, suffering much damage in the Revolutionary War; Philadelphia of the Quaker brotherhood, later a seat of Abolitionist agitation; deepwater Richmond at the head of the James, not captured until 1865, much-burned in the evacuation; gracious Charleston of the Carolinas, chief entrepot of the Southeast.
Desire and the slave trade
Indeed, the book has a good deal on the latter, for the very notion expressed in the book's title, that of entrepot capitalism, involves the relationship between the two.
Entrepot Capitalism: Foreign Investment and the American Dream in the Twentieth Century
Une grande quantite de chaussures et de vetements d'occasion (fripe) tries, d'une valeur globale de 1 103 mille de dinars, a ete saisie lundi par les agents de la Garde douaniere, dans un entrepot industriel a Nabeul.
125 tonnes de fripe saisis dans un entrepot a Nabeul
Ces marchandises sont entrees en Tunisie illicitement en provenance de Libye et elles ont ete localisees dans un entrepot a Mornag.
Tunisie-Ben Arous : Saisie de marchandises d'importantes de contrebande
Dubai's Jebel Ali has been working for several decades and now has an established place as a great entrepot.
UAE BANKRUPTCY LAW NEEDS REFORMS
Trente personnes ont ete blessees hier mercredi dans un incendie qui a touche au moins neuf immeubles dans un quartier densement peuple de Lagos, la capitale economique du Nigeria, a la suite d 'une explosion dans un entrepot oE etaient probablement stockes des feux d'artifice, a-t-on appris aupres des secours.
Lagos : 30 blesses et 9 immeubles touches dans un incendie
HCE is promoting to the business audience of one of world's fastest growing economies the entrepot status and reputation of Bahrain," he said.
Bahrain's key role in spotlight at roadshow

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