A nation may have a large commerce, of export and import, carried in foreign vessels, and possess little shipping of its own.
As regards vessels in distress on the Open Sea, some writers[548] maintain that men-of-war must render assistance even to foreign vessels in distress.
Most of the carrying Import trade was in the hands of subsidized Spanish steamer-owners, whilst the larger portion of the Exports was conveyed in foreign vessels, which arrived in ballast from Eastern ports where they had left cargoes.
The commerce of the United States with foreign nations, and especially the export of domestic productions, has of late years largely increased; but the greater portion of this trade is conducted in foreign vessels.
The American contention that the exemption of American coasting trade vessels from the payment of canal tolls does not discriminate against foreign vessels, p.
Foreign vessels will be better circumstanced under a duty of fifty cents, than American free of duty.
The number of native as well as foreign vessels which we passed, proved that we were approaching some great mart, and at 5:00 p.
By the fifth article of this treaty the citizens of these States are declared exempt from the tonnage duty imposed in France on foreign vessels, and they are not subject to that duty but in the coasting business.
Of the remainder, about one half, that is to say, one quarter of the whole, is shipped by foreign vessels to other treaty ports open to foreign trade, where it is duly entered at the Customs.
At every treaty port open to foreign vessels there is a foreign Commissioner of Customs, and Sir Robert Hart is the supreme head of these commissioners.
Another instance of Manchoo repellance is the withdrawal of the concession formerly granted to foreign vessels to visit the ports of the Island of Formosa.
This proposed differential duty on foreign vessels was as clearly aimed at Great Britain as if that power had been named in the bill.
Thus there was a system of levying tonnage-dues on foreign vessels in addition to duties, a cargo-ship being charged double the dues of one in ballast.
To-day subsidized Spanish steamers have most of the import trade, though the export trade is done mainly by foreign vessels.
Spanish ships--were double that in foreign vessels.
The duty on articles, amounting to seventy-three, imported from America, vary from 1 to 15 per cent, with double the duty if in foreign vessels.
And the duty of 20 per cent on the same articles, in foreign vessels, will be augmented to 27 per cent.
The Import Duty in foreign vessels is fourteen per centum, Spanish; the Export Duty, three per centum, excepting on hemp, which is free.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreign vessels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
