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The Free port of Vladivostok is a free port, which means a port zone under a special custom and taxation system, with a particular jurisdiction regarding investments. This status has been granted to Vladivostok from 1861 to 1909, and is anew applicable since October 12, 2015. == From 1861 to 1909 == Initially, the regime of free port in Vladivostok has been applied under the Russian Empire from 1861 to 1909.〔''Roudneev D. D., Koulik N. A.'' - (Material for the study of the maritim route of Northern Europe towards Ob and Ienissei );— Пг.: Тип. А. Э. Коллинс, 1915. — С.;3-4, 57-59.; (Russian)〕 This special status efficiently contributed to the economical development of Vladivostok, which became one of the biggest ports in the world, commensurable to Hamburg or London.〔(Vladivostok chosen as Russia’s first 'free port' to help bolster economy ), ''The Siberian Times'', December 7 of 2014.〕 In 1860, in order to develop the Far East, the Russian Government decided to assign the free port status to all the ports of Primoye. In 1900, Sergei Witte, at this time Minister of Finances, canceled the free port regime in Vladivostok, because he thought that it affected the development of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which was designed to unify the Empire.〔(Vladivostok and Odessa just before the First World War ), Yukimura Sakon, publication of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.〕 Moreover, even if it had allowed supplying first need products to the settlers in such a remote area as the Russian Far East, the free port regime had a considerable drawback: the supremacy of foreign products over national products in the whole country.〔(Kunst and Albers Vladivostok: the history of a German trading company in the Russian Far East 1864 - 1924 ), Lothar - Deeg, ISBN 978-3-8442-5819-6, p. 188-189.〕 However, facing hard commercial competition with Dalian, which had also been a free port since 1899,〔(Revue des deux mondes - 1904, tome 23, p.366 ) - Dalian, sous domination russe, reçoit le statut de port franc en 1899. (French)〕 Vladivostok got back its status of free port in 1904;〔 it corresponds to the loss of Port Arthur - also a free port〔 - during the Russo-Japanese War. The peace conditions offered by Russia to Japan in 1905 included maintaining the status of free port in Vladivostok.〔(''L'Express du Midi'', N°4640 ), June 12 of 1905. (French)〕 The need to reduce Japanese influence in the Far East has been the reason invoked by newspapers to push up for the abolition of the free port status in Vladivostok in 1909.〔 Actually, the abolition of the status was already discussed in 1906.〔(Procès verbaux de la Conférence pour la conclusion d'un traité de commerce et de navigation entre la Russie et le Japon - 1906-1907 ), Procès Verbal N°3, p. 134. (French)〕 Vladivostok's authorities called many times for the restoration of the free port status, without success.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Free port of Vladivostok」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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