Modern Export Packing - 1940

Leeming, Joseph

Published by U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC, 1940

About this Item

Square tight binding. Clean, bright, unmarked text. Light age tanning of page edges and end papers. A single spot on front cover. Owner's name in cursive with 1945 date on first free page. No dust jacket - probably as issued. The author is from the Transportation Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of The Department of Commerce. Trade Promotion Series - No.207. At the time this was published Harry Hopkins who was one of President Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisors and was the Secretary of Commerce. 530 pages. 9.25" X 6" X 1" Covers best practices and regulations regarding exports and packaging for US manufacturers sending goods abroad. Detailed directions on properly assembling crates, boxes, drums, shipping containers, barrels, and all other types of containers commonly used in shipping pre-WWII, along with different countries regulations regarding appropriate packing material. The appendix includes information about each port in each country including things like numbers of docks, harbor depth, and other details governing what can be physically handled in the port.

Seller Inventory # B462-H001

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern Export Packing - 1940
• Publisher: U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC
• Publication Date: 1940
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Distribution