0 an area near a port or airport to which goods from foreign countries can be brought without tax being paid if they are sent to another country when they leave this area
1 a port that charges little or no tax on goods that have been brought there temporarily from a foreign country before being transported to another country:
2 → free trade zone
For José Medina's tobacco factories were built at a free port in French territory.
Free ports exist in Germany and have existed for a long time, although Germany is a country with a protective tariff.
It is a free port, and is the great grain mart of this particular part of the world.
Shall there be a free port in one State and onerous duties in another?
The fourth comes from Singapore, and is brought there to exchange for British manufactures by the native craft which frequent that free port.
This motivates us to equip every free port with an orientation, as follows.
Having no natural resources which could be taxed and needing its status as a free port, it relied heavily on property taxes for income.
That is, by giving this country the status and footing of an open and free port.
