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19 U.S.C. § 1500 — Appraisement, classification, and liquidation procedure

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19 U.S.C. § 1500 — Appraisement, classification, and liquidation procedure

The Customs Service shall, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary— **(a)** fix the final appraisement of merchandise by ascertaining or estimating the value thereof, under [section 1401a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1401a&num=0&edition=prelim), by all reasonable ways and means in his power, any statement of cost or costs of production in any invoice, affidavit, declaration, other document to the contrary notwithstanding; **(b)** fix the final classification and rate of duty applicable to such merchandise; **(c)** fix the final amount of duty to be paid on such merchandise and determine any increased or additional duties, taxes, and fees due or any excess of duties, taxes, and fees deposited; **(d)** liquidate the entry and reconciliation, if any, of such merchandise; and **(e)** give or transmit, pursuant to an electronic data interchange system, notice of such liquidation to the importer, his consignee, or agent in such form and manner as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe.

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19 U.S.C. § 1401a — Value

**(a) Generally** (1) Except as otherwise specifically provided for in this chapter, imported merchandise shall be appraised, for the purposes of this chapter, on the basis of the following: (A) The transaction value provided for under subsection (b). (B) The transaction value of identical merchandise provided for under subsection (c), if the value referred to in subparagraph (A) cannot be determined, or can be determined but cannot be used by reason of subsection (b)(2). (C) The transaction value of similar merchandise provided for under subsection (c), if the value referred to in subparagraph (B) cannot be determined. (D) The deductive value provided for under subsection (d), if the value referred to in subparagraph (C) cannot be determined and if the importer does not request alternative valuation under paragraph (2). (E) The computed value provided for under subsection (e), if the value referred to in subparagraph (D) cannot be determined. (F) The value provided for under subsection (f), if the value referred to in subparagraph (E) cannot be determined. (2) If the value referred to in paragraph (1)(C) cannot be determined with respect to imported merchandise, the merchandise shall be appraised on the basis of the computed value provided for under paragraph (1)(E), rather than the deductive value provided for under paragraph (1)(D), if the importer makes a request to that effect to the customs officer concerned within such time as the Secretary shall prescribe. If the computed value of the merchandise cannot subsequently be determined, the merchandise may not be appraised on the basis of the value referred to in paragraph (1)(F) unless the deductive value of the merchandise cannot be determined under paragraph (1)(D). (3) Upon written request the

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6 U.S.C. § 542 — Federal air marshal program

(1) **Sense of Congress** — It is the sense of Congress that the Federal air marshal program is critical to aviation security. (2) **Limitation on statutory construction** — Nothing in this chapter, including any amendment made by this chapter, shall be construed as preventing the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security from implementing and training Federal air marshals.

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6 U.S.C. § 211 — National Urban Security Technology Laboratory

**(a) In general** The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, shall designate the laboratory described in subsection (b) as an additional laboratory pursuant to the authority under [section 188(c)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section188/c/2&num=0&edition=prelim). Such laboratory shall be used to test and evaluate emerging technologies and conduct research and development to assist emergency response providers in preparing for, and protecting against, threats of terrorism. **(b) Laboratory described** The laboratory described in this subsection is the laboratory— (1) known, as of December 27, 2021, as the National Urban Security Technology Laboratory; and (2) transferred to the Department pursuant to [section 183(1)(E) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section183/1/E&num=0&edition=prelim). **(c) Laboratory activities** The National Urban Security Technology Laboratory shall— (1) conduct tests, evaluations, and assessments of current and emerging technologies, including, as appropriate, the cybersecurity of such technologies that can connect to the internet, for emergency response providers; (2) act as a technical advisor to emergency response providers; and (3) carry out other such activities as the Secretary determines appropriate. **(d) Rule of construction** Nothing in this section may be construed as affecting in any manner the authorities or responsibilities of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office of the Department.

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19 U.S.C. § 1654 — Short title

This chapter may be cited as the “Tariff Act of 1930.”

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19 U.S.C. § 1305 — Immoral articles; importation prohibited

**(a) Prohibition of importation** All persons are prohibited from importing into the United States from any foreign country any book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, or drawing containing any matter advocating or urging treason or insurrection against the United States, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States, or containing any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United States, or any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article which is obscene or immoral, or any drug or medicine or any article whatever for causing unlawful abortion, or any lottery ticket, or any printed paper that may be used as a lottery ticket, or any advertisement of any lottery. No such articles whether imported separately or contained in packages with other goods entitled to entry, shall be admitted to entry; and all such articles and, unless it appears to the satisfaction of the appropriate customs officer that the obscene or other prohibited articles contained in the package were inclosed therein without the knowledge or consent of the importer, owner, agent, or consignee, the entire contents of the package in which such articles are contained, shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture as hereinafter provided: Provided, That the drugs hereinbefore mentioned, when imported in bulk and not put up for any of the purposes hereinbefore specified, are excepted from the operation of this subdivision: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, admit the so-called classics or books of recognized and established literary or

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19 U.S.C. § 1311 — Bonded manufacturing warehouses

All articles manufactured in whole or in part of imported materials, or of materials subject to internal-revenue tax, and intended for exportation without being charged with duty, and without having an internal-revenue stamp affixed thereto, shall, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, in order to be so manufactured and exported, be made and manufactured in bonded warehouses similar to those known and designated in Treasury Regulations as bonded warehouses, class six: Provided, That the manufacturer of such articles shall first give satisfactory bonds for the faithful observance of all the provisions of law and of such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided further, That the manufacture of distilled spirits from grain, starch, molasses, or sugar, including all dilutions or mixtures of them or either of them, shall not be permitted in such manufacturing warehouses.

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19 U.S.C. § 1315 — Effective date of rates of duty

**(a) Articles entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption** Except as otherwise specially provided for, the rate or rates of duty imposed by or pursuant to this chapter or any other law on any article entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption shall be the rate or rates in effect when the documents comprising the entry for consumption or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption and any estimated or liquidated duties then required to be paid have been deposited with the Customs Service by written, electronic or such other means as the Secretary by regulation shall prescribe, except that— (1) any article released under an informal mail entry shall be subject to duty at the rate or rates in effect when the preparation of the entry is completed; (2) any article which is not subject to a quantitative or tariff-rate quota and which is covered by an entry for immediate transportation made at the port of original importation under [section 1552 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1552&num=0&edition=prelim), if entered for consumption at the port designated by the consignee, or his agent, in such transportation entry without having been taken into the custody of the appropriate customs officer under [section 1490 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1490&num=0&edition=prelim), shall be subject to the rate or rates in effect when the transportation entry was accepted at the port of original importation; and (3) any article for which duties may, under [section 1505 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1505&num=0&edition=prelim), be paid at a time later than the time of making entry s

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19 U.S.C. § 1401 — Miscellaneous

When used in this subtitle or in part I of subtitle II— **(a) Vessel** The word “vessel” includes every description of water craft or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation in water, but does not include aircraft. **(b) Vehicle** The word “vehicle” includes every description of carriage or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land, but does not include aircraft. **(c) Merchandise** The word “merchandise” means goods, wares, and chattels of every description, and includes merchandise the importation of which is prohibited, and monetary instruments as defined in [section 5312 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section5312&num=0&edition=prelim). **(d) Person** The word “person” includes partnerships, associations, and corporations. **(e) Master** The word “master” means the person having the command of the vessel. **(f) Day** The word “day” means the time from eight o’clock antemeridian to five o’clock postmeridian. **(g) Night** The word “night” means the time from five o’clock postmeridian to eight o’clock antemeridian. **(h) United States** The term “United States” includes all Territories and possessions of the United States except the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Wake Island, Midway Islands, Kingman Reef, Johnston Island, and the island of Guam. **(i) Officer of the customs; customs officer** The terms “officer of the customs” and “customs officer” mean any officer of the United States Customs Service of the Treasury Department (also hereinafter referred to as the “Customs Service”) or any commissioned, warrant, or petty officer of the Coast Guard, or any agent or other person, including foreign law enforcement officers, autho

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19 U.S.C. § 1434 — Entry; vessels

**(a) Formal entry** Within 24 hours (or such other period of time as may be provided under subsection (c)(2)) after the arrival at any port or place in the United States of— (1) any vessel from a foreign port or place; (2) any foreign vessel from a domestic port; (3) any vessel of the United States having on board foreign merchandise for which entry has not been made; or (4) any vessel which has visited a hovering vessel or has delivered or received merchandise while outside the territorial sea; the master of the vessel shall, unless otherwise provided by law, make formal entry at the nearest customs facility or such other place as the Secretary may prescribe by regulation. **(b) Preliminary entry** The Secretary may by regulation permit the master to make preliminary entry of the vessel with the Customs Service in lieu of formal entry or before formal entry is made. In permitting preliminary entry, the Customs Service shall board a sufficient number of vessels to ensure compliance with the laws it enforces. **(c) Regulations** The Secretary may by regulation— (1) prescribe the manner and format in which entry under subsection (a) or subsection (b), or both, must be made, and such regulations may provide that any such entry may be made electronically pursuant to an electronic data interchange system; (2) provide that— (A) formal entry must be made within a greater or lesser time than 24 hours after arrival, but in no case more than 48 hours after arrival, and (B) formal entry may be made before arrival; and (3) authorize the Customs Service to permit entry or preliminary entry of any vessel to be made at a place other than a designated port of entry, under such conditions as may be prescribed.

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19 U.S.C. § 1438 — Unlawful return of foreign vessel’s papers

It shall not be lawful for any foreign consul to deliver to the master of any foreign vessel the register, or document in lieu thereof, deposited with him in accordance with the provisions of [section 1434 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1434&num=0&edition=prelim), or regulations issued thereunder, until such master shall produce to him a clearance in due form from the Customs Service in the port in which such vessel has entered. Any consul offending against the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not more than $5,000.

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