The art is stored in a duty-free port near Zurich, he said.

The word has connotations of a duty-free port, but this is not what is intended here.

It thrives on being a duty-free port, as well as a tourist resort especially during summer.

In fact, it's the world's second-largest duty-free port after Hong Kong.

The island's status as a duty-free port and proximity to the mainland make it a popular vacation spot for Venezuelans.

Since Hong Kong is a duty-free port and charges no sales tax, goods are cheaper here than in the country where they were made.

Weihai prospered as a duty-free port, and the British energetically built roads, phone lines and a hospital.

While under international control, Tangier, with its duty-free port, became a center for financial manipulators, smugglers, and international intrigue.

In 1976, Port Said was declared a duty-free port, attracting people from all over Egypt.

Brazil's grant of duty-free port facilities on the Atlantic Coast was particularly valuable to Paraguay.

To help things along, the authority has asked the United States Customs and Immigration Service to designate the airport a duty-free port.

Later, business people from Taiwan came, attracted by Guangdong's anything-goes atmosphere and the access to Hong Kong's duty-free port.

Shopping in Macau Like Hong Kong, Macau is a duty-free port.

For Hong Kong is the center of Asia's financial world, the biggest and busiest duty-free port and the most expensive concentration of real estate on earth.

Most paintings scheduled for exhibition to Chinese buyers are brought instead to Hong Kong, a duty-free port where air cargo clears customs in less than a day.

Conflict on Customs Duty New Jersey also tried to create its own duty-free ports at Perth Amboy and Burlington.

Finally Singapore's status as a duty-free port (no import duties or sales tax), together with a relaxed approach to repatriation of profits and movement of currencies, are all relevant.

This resulted in the emergence of Dubai as the premier re-export business port, whereby goods are imported into a duty-free port and immediately exported to another market.

Every other store in this duty-free port seemed to sell Seiko watches which were also a major attraction for cruise passengers who left their money there along with the paleness of their skins.

Her maiden itinerary, with eight full sea days and calls at Gibraltar, Lisbon, the Azores and Bermuda, was not the usual string of duty-free ports and night sailing.

Duty-free port attractions, retail trade, high-end tourism (mostly from North America) and its luxury hotels and villas have increased the island's prosperity, reflected in the high standard of living of its citizens.

Its white seaside villas were gutted by rockets and mortars, and it has no central electricity or phone systems, but trade is thriving here in the only duty-free port in the Horn of Africa.

WHAT TO DO AT NIGHT - If Old Town resembles a duty-free port by day, it turns into an alcohol-fueled pub crawl by night.

Once a duty-free port, it still has a relatively vigorous shopping district selling various consumer goods at bargain prices, including Colombian gold and emerald jewellery, leather goods and other distinctively Colombian wares.

The full incorporation of Spain into the European Economic Community in 1990 brought the end of the duty-free ports status, but saw certain special allowances for the Canary Islands with respect to agriculture, fishing and taxes.