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unusual facts about bonded warehouse


Bonded warehouse

To obviate these difficulties and to put a check upon frauds on the revenue, Robert Walpole proposed in his "excise scheme" of 1733, the system of warehousing for tobacco and wine.


Horniman's Tea

In 1852 he moved the company to London to be closer to the bonded warehouses of London Docks, then the biggest tea trading port in the world.


see also

Glen's Vodka

It is produced by Glen Catrine Bonded Warehouse, a company based in Catrine, Ayrshire.