A port of entry is a place where one may lawfully enter a country. It typically has a staff of persons who check passports and visas and inspect luggage to assure that contraband is not imported. International airports are usually ports of entry.
A port of entry is a place where one may lawfully enter a country.
International airports are usually ports of entry, as are cities on a land border.
The choice of whether to become a port of entry is up to the civil authority controlling the harbor; Los Angeles and San Diego, for example, are ports of entry, whereas Newport Beach is not.
Port Townsend is the port of entry for the Puget Sound customs district.
In 1908 its exports were valued at $37,547,553, much more than those of any other American port of entry on the Pacific; its imports were valued in 1908 at $21,876,361, being exceeded among the Pacific ports by those of San Francisco only.
Port Townsend was settled in 1854, incorporated as a town in 1860 and chartered as a city in 1890.
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