The Warehouses That (Sort Of) Aren't in Any Country

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I’m surprised that security at the freeport is sufficient for such valuable pieces of art

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That warehouse is not part of Australia *because it is in Norway*

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0:41 ah good to see the French represented in this video!!

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It's Dutch. It's the Dutch embassy in Berlin.

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How could Wendover leave out the part where a taxiing 747 crashes into the Freeport? He of all people should’ve covered that!

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I know everyone has said it before, but I love how you make your ad transitions fit with the subject of the video.

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Is that an IKEA warehouse at 4:12?😅

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It is, funny how he says tax free at the same time...

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Nice spot!

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No its a dark bleak warehouse oh wait nevermind there the same thing :P

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And this isn't part of Australia... it's in Switzerland (edit- Norway) 😂

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OJ The Aviator He said Norway 🇳🇴 though

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@@tatotenaglia6548 I could. But that would make Rohith Eppepali's comment make no sense, and I don't mind admitting I made a mistake and someone corrected me. Good on Rohith for pointing it out!

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Awesome video! Score another one for the faceless billionaires of the world. I didn't really think about freeports as being semi-permanent income/tax dodges for the super rich. I figured they were more for typical commercial logistics. Silly me!

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Haha I really appreciate the warehouse in Norway joke

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I love that you show IKEA as a "dark, bleak, yet tax-free warehouse"

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Who remebered this after watching Tenet?

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😂 the funiest when it was not in Australia because it was in Norway

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Funniest not funiest

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When you mentioned South Africa, I smiled! So, Hi from South Africa. Very informative video, keep em comin!

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"More than the cost of a Toyota Corolla" *RLL:* _TRIGGERED_

[@geraldgreer5214]

Hey man, it’s pretty cool that you mention the Freeport in Geneva, I didn’t know what that building was and that such an important painting was in it. The building is literally a 10 min walk from my house.

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So they're bonded warehouses? Lots everywhere. Nice and interesting video : )

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Best transition to an audible ad i’ve ever heard

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I watched this video over two days. You should do a video on mindset of why we watch your videos! Lol Love the music.

[@helljester8097]

M’y wife once had a job interview with a gem cutter/appraiser who was installed in the Geneva Freeport (Port-franc) and I used to work for a motorcycle dealer who regularly had to buy motorcycle spare parts from a French supplier who had a wholesale distributor set up shop inside. Going there to fetch orders had this Indiana Jones lost ark feel to it each time.....

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I’ll tell you what’s so special about freeports. Somewhere within, there’s a pentagon structure with what appear to be a device consisting of two chambers separated by a glass window. That device is a turnstile and will invert your entropy allowing you to move backwards through the flow of time.

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Similar to this, part of Hamburg port was leased to Czechoslovakia as part of the Treaty of Versailles. Even though the treaty is now abandoned and CS has split into CZ and SK, it is now an agreement between CZ and Hamburg Port whereby goods will not be interfered with while being transferred between river ships and ocean ships.

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1:58 I just like your tone of voice as you explain this. And the rest of your video, too.

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I wonder if Christopher Nolan watched this video...

[@pdzh]

I am a truck driver, I get to pick up and drop off in free ports, but usually to another free ports else where. Yes I do have to carry an exemption paperwork for that cargo while in transit. Also a lot of times I don't know what's in there. Even when going between USA and Canada.

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amazing video and editing as always!

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Someone listened to last weeks Planet Money.

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I'll admit that I did see that they covered this topic, but this has been a planned topic for HAI for months so I'm guilt-free! I can't recommend that podcast enough, though.

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What hell is going on at 4:33? I can only presume the meta tags for this stock video were "BUDGET VAL KILMER UNDERSTUDY BATHTUB ROSE PEDALS GENERIC BRAND WINDOWS LAPTOP CENSORED LOGO COVER UP POSSIBLY ONLINE DATING STRICTLY PLATONIC GRINDR BUMBLE THANK GOD I DID NOT DROP THIS LAPTOP IN THE BATH TUB THIS IS ROMANTIC I GUESS" It's like he said "I'm not really sure what this is supposed to represent. I'm going to use it anyway. I'm going to use this in my next video."

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I know if I was scrolling through stock footage and came across that, I'd make sure as hell to include it somewhere.

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I love how the "Dark, bleak, tax free warehouse" is an Ikea self serve area!

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3:04 If you look carefully at the license plate, it shows the car is registered in NSW in Australia.

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“Dark, bleak, warehouses” that’s definitely an IKEA in that shot.

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0:23 this is why I love this channel

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This is a great vid that opens the door to many more questions. Which people control these free port warehouses? Do they get paid? Do they determine what is stored and what isn't?

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I absolutely love your sense of humour

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Planet money just did an episode on this.

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itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2&i=1000401880155

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Half as Interesting (in another comment on this vid): "I'll admit that I did see that they covered this topic, but this has been a planned topic for HAI for months so I'm guilt-free! I can't recommend that podcast enough, though."

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Ben Lentz Okay, I didn't see that.

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So, that’s what was going on with that airport warehouse in “Tenet.” 😃

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Fun fact: the phone I'm using right now to type this comment was smuggled from a free port in my country. It was hella cheap.

[@ruvenjunior]

Is it me, or is Geneva over-represented? Being Genevan myself, I noticed that this city of 500'000 has been mentioned 3 times in these videos: 1. The ISO 2. The Freeport, at P+R Étoile 3. CERN Please let us know if you ever plan to come by

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Riccardoricc oui, mais il y a quand même des chiens gardes et des securitas partout

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The recent planet money episode did this in greater depth a really good listen.

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Great video! As always!

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I've lived in cities with freeports in my country. You get to eat tons of odd things, but sometimes i worry that we end up like a dump because of all the used stuff that gets in here.

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I like your way of presenting sponsors advertisement more than the video itself :P though videos are also amazing :)

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Old school wendover 's voice is so weird

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You should do a whole episode on CERN, there's a lot of stuff going on in terms on jurisdiction. It's almost like a mini-country in itself, with its own fire brigade, hotel, border control, etc

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Thanks for the info. Now I just gotta do an Oceans 11 gig on a a free port warehouse.

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You missed one in Panama, they call it the "Zona Libre" so free zone, and it's located by Colon, next to one of the entrances to the Panama canal

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In my opinion, the most interesting use of one of these is near Zhengzhou Airport in China. You see, Chinese law makes it easy for foreign companies to manufacture in China then export or to import products into China, but fairly difficult to manufacture then sell in China. This was a problem for Apple, since they manufacture primarily in China and China is their largest market. Their initial solution was to assemble iPhones in Shenzhen then ship them across the bay to Hong Kong, then back into China. Then, Apple and Foxconn built a factory by Zhengzhou Airport inside a "bonded zone", basically a free port where they now assemble iPhones for the Chinese market.

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What is the host country benefiting from by creating these freeports? Wouldnt they much prefer the extra tax?

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Think of it this way - if they can't benefit from free ports, they won't GO to those ports. For example, maybe a ship makes a double stop - half its goods are stored on a freeport to be sent to elsewhere on another ship, and half its goods are sold in the country, tax and all. If you remove the incentive to freeport, they won't GO to that port.

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Cute lady before the Audible add!

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0:23 3:12 I always love your snarky remarks

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4:09 a lot of the world's most famous pieces of art are stored in an Ikea

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Did you get the idea for this video from Planet Money's podcast "Planet Monet"? They talked about the same thing recently as well

[@vaylon1701]

Most all international companies have a similar setup as this. Toyota, Chevy and Ford all have exclusion zones. Areas of the factories grounds that are the territory of the country the cars are being shipped too. That way the cars are never considered as having been made in a country (for tax purposes) that actually built them.

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This guy's sarcasm has reached levels never seen before.

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Love it that you used a picture of the IKEA warehouse for "dark, bleek warehouses"...

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That transition into the ad though...

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There some really goofy stock video clips in this segment. LOL! thanks.

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I didn't notice until the end of the video that you were using Google Maps as your location shot for Geneva Freeport. Clever

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4:03 are we just gonna gloss over the fact that you can have insurance for an unlimited amount of money? How does that even work? What are their premiums and deductibles like? What's the biggest insurance payout ever? We need another video on this.