The Import and Export Trade, Or, Modern Commercial Practice (formerly Known as Modern Business Methods): Being a Guide to the Operations Incidental to the Trade of the United Kingdom, with the Customary Documents and CorrespondenceMacmillan, 1905 - 272 pages |
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Page ix
... measures , and currencies , as their foreign competitors do , and that we are thereby losing trade . These complaints were emphasized at a meeting of an important Chamber of Commerce held a short time ago to consider the question of ...
... measures , and currencies , as their foreign competitors do , and that we are thereby losing trade . These complaints were emphasized at a meeting of an important Chamber of Commerce held a short time ago to consider the question of ...
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... measures , and money , a few chapters have been devoted to these heads , in which these subjects are fully dealt with . We also give a chapter explanatory of the construction and working of telegraph codes - information which has ...
... measures , and money , a few chapters have been devoted to these heads , in which these subjects are fully dealt with . We also give a chapter explanatory of the construction and working of telegraph codes - information which has ...
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... measures , and money ) with full explanations and examples of each ... ... CHAPTER XI ... 90- Consular Invoices for the United States , Portugal , and South American countries ... 95 . CHAPTER XII Securing Exchange and Drawing against ...
... measures , and money ) with full explanations and examples of each ... ... CHAPTER XI ... 90- Consular Invoices for the United States , Portugal , and South American countries ... 95 . CHAPTER XII Securing Exchange and Drawing against ...
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... MEASURES CHAPTER XXIX The Metric System Generally : Decimal Notation ; The Metre ; The Measure of Surface ; Measure of Volume or Solidity ; Measures of Capacity ; Weights 211 ... 218 CHAPTER XXX Advantages of the Metric System , and ...
... MEASURES CHAPTER XXIX The Metric System Generally : Decimal Notation ; The Metre ; The Measure of Surface ; Measure of Volume or Solidity ; Measures of Capacity ; Weights 211 ... 218 CHAPTER XXX Advantages of the Metric System , and ...
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... Measures PAGE 234 Business Abbreviations ... APPENDIX II QUESTIONS 243 300 Questions on the matters contained in this Manual , for the use of private students and teachers ... ... ... 245 .... · This Manual , taken in conjunction with ...
... Measures PAGE 234 Business Abbreviations ... APPENDIX II QUESTIONS 243 300 Questions on the matters contained in this Manual , for the use of private students and teachers ... ... ... 245 .... · This Manual , taken in conjunction with ...
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The Import and Export Trade, Or, Modern Commercial Practice (Formerly Known ... James Graham,Frederick Hooper No preview available - 2018 |
The Import and Export Trade, Or, Modern Commercial Practice (Formerly Known ... James Graham,Frederick Hooper No preview available - 2018 |
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abroad Account Sales agent amount Bales bank Barratry Bill of Lading Bombay Bond Bottomry Bradford British buyer Calcutta Cape cargo cent centimetres Certificate charges Charter Party chiefly clause commercial consignee contract cost cotton cubic Customs damage decimal decimetre declare delivered discount documents draft duty exports firm foreign France freight Grammes hectolitres hectometres Home Trade imports included Indent India invoice kilogrammes litre Liverpool Lloyd's loading London Manchester manufactured marine insurance Master meaning trade measure merchandise merchant Messrs metric system millimetres milreis myriametre Office owner packages packing paid particular average passport payable payment port principal railway rate of exchange received risk rupees sailing sell seller ship Ship's shipment shipowner sold square metre stamp steamer telegram telegraph thereof Total Transhipment Trieste underwriters United Kingdom usually vessel voyage weight wool words yards
Popular passages
Page 13 - Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any statute in that behalf, there is no implied warranty or condition as to the quality or fitness for any particular purpose...
Page 161 - ... arrests, restraints and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, and of all other perils, losses, and misfortunes that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises and ship, &c., or any part thereof...
Page 117 - Touching the adventures and perils which we the assurers are contented to bear and do take upon us in this voyage...
Page 161 - Part thereof; and in case of any Loss or Misfortune, it shall be lawful to the Assured, their Factors, Servants, and Assigns, to sue, labour, and travel for, in and about the Defence, Safeguard and Recovery of the Said Ooods and Merchandises and Ship, &e., or any Part thereof, without Prejudice to this Insurance; to the Charges whereof we, the Assurers, will contribute, each one according to the Rate and Quantity of his Sum herein assured.
Page 13 - ... (a) when he signifies his approval or acceptance to the seller, or does any other act adopting the transaction ; (b) if he does not signify his approval or acceptance to the seller, but retains the goods without giving notice of rejection, then, if a time has been fixed for the return of the goods, on the expiration of such time, and, if no time has been fixed, on the expiration of a reasonable time. What is a reasonable time is a question of fact.
Page 63 - Endorsement, shall have transferred to and vested in him all Rights of Suit, and be subject to the same Liabilities in respect of such Goods as if the Contract contained in the Bill of Lading had been made with himself.
Page 14 - Where the seller delivers to the buyer the goods he contracted to sell, mixed with goods of a different description not included in the contract, the buyer may accept the goods which are in accordance with the contract and reject the rest, or he may reject the whole.
Page 159 - Be it known that as well in own name as for and in the name and names of all and every other person or persons to whom the same doth, may, or shall appertain, in part or in all...
Page 118 - Corn, fish, salt, fruit, flour, and seed, are warranted free from- average, unless general, or the ship be stranded ; sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides, and skins, are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent.
Page 160 - Merchandises until the same be there discharged and safely landed ; and it shall be lawful for the said Ship, &c., in this Voyage to proceed and sail to and touch and stay at any Ports or Places whatsoever without Prejudice to this Insurance.