19 U.S.C. § 1552 — Entry for immediate transportation

Page 253 TITLE 19—CUSTOMS DUTIES § 1553 dise, subject to regulations, terms, and conditions pre- scribed by the Secretary, safeguard the revenues of the United States with respect to the transportation of bonded merchandise by such applicant. 1962—Pub. L. 87–854 amended section catchline and text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as fol- lows: ‘‘Under such regulations and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, any common carrier of merchandise owning or operating a railroad, steamship, or other transportation line or route for the transportation of merchandise in the United States, or any freightforwarder authorized to operate as such by any agency of the United States, upon application, may, in the discretion of the Secretary, be designated as a car- rier of bonded merchandise for the final release of which from customs custody a permit has not been issued.’’ Pub. L. 87–598 substituted ‘‘authorized to operate as such by any agency of the United States,’’ for ‘‘, as de- fined in section 1002(5) of title 49.’’ 1945—Act Dec. 28, 1945, substituted ‘‘Under such regu- lations and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, any common carrier of merchandise owning or operating a railroad, steamship, or other transportation line or route for the transportation of merchandise in the United States, or any freight forwarder, as defined in section 1002(5) of title 49, upon application, may, in the discretion of the Secretary’’ for ‘‘Any common carrier of merchandise owning or operating railroad, steamship, or other transportation lines or routes for the transportation of merchandise in the United States, upon application and the filing of a bond in a form and penalty and with such sureties as may be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, may’’. § 1551a. Bonded cartmen or lightermen The Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is, authorized, when it appears to him to be in the interest of commerce, and notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation requiring that the transportation of imported merchandise be by a bonded common carrier, to permit such mer- chandise which has been entered and examined for customs purposes to be transported by bond- ed cartmen or bonded lightermen between the ports of New York, Newark, and Perth Amboy, which are all included in Customs Collection District Numbered 10 (New York): Provided, That this resolution shall not be construed to deprive any of the ports affected of its rights and privi- leges as a port of entry. (June 19, 1936, ch. 611, 49 Stat. 1538.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of Tariff Act of 1930 which comprises this chapter. § 1552. Entry for immediate transportation Any merchandise, other than explosives and merchandise the importation of which is prohib- ited, arriving at a port of entry in the United States may be entered, under such rules and reg- ulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, for transportation in bond without ap- praisement to any other port of entry des- ignated by the consignee, or his agent, and by such bonded carrier as he designates, there to be entered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. (June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 552, 46 Stat. 742.) Editorial Notes PRIOR PROVISIONS Provisions similar to those in this section were con- tained in act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, § 552, 42 Stat. 975. That section was superseded by section 552 of act June 17, 1930, comprising this section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act. Prior provisions for transportation in bond without appraisement of merchandise with certain exceptions, when imported at certain named ports and destined for certain ports, were contained in act June 10, 1880, ch. 190, §§ 1 (as amended by act June 14, 1880, ch. 214, and act June 20, 1884, ch. 103) 2, 7, and 9, 21 Stat. 173, 174, 175. Sections 5 (as amended by act July 2, 1884, ch. 142, and act Feb. 23, 1887, ch. 215, and act Feb. 2, 1899, ch. 84) and 6 (as amended by act July 2, 1884, ch. 142), regulated the transportation and transfer of the merchandise. The act of June 10, 1880 was amended by act Feb. 23, 1887, ch. 218, 24 Stat. 414, and its provisions were extended by various acts to ports other than those originally named. The act of June 10, 1880, ch. 190, as amended, and the acts of Feb. 23, 1887, ch. 218, and Feb. 2, 1899, ch. 84, were all repealed by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, § 643, 42 Stat. 989, and the various acts extending the provisions of the act of June 10, 1880, thereupon became inoperative. R.S. §§ 2990–2997, as amended by act Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80, 18 Stat. 319, and as extended by act Mar. 14, 1876, ch. 23, 19 Stat. 7, and act Aug. 14, 1876, ch. 270, 19 Stat. 139, contained provisions somewhat similar to those of the act of June 10, 1880, ch. 190, and were repealed by sec- tion 8 of the 1880 act. R.S. § 2581, relative to the transshipment of merchan- dise transported in bond to the port of Brownsville, by Brazos Harbor; R.S. §§ 2816–2831, as amended by act Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 246, 247, and act June 16, 1880, ch. 239, 21 Stat. 283, relative to transportation of mer- chandise intended to be imported into certain ports of delivery; and R.S. § 2998, prescribing a penalty for breaking or entering any car, etc., containing merchan- dise transported under sections 2990–2997, or defacing any lock or seal, etc.—were all repealed by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, § 642, 42 Stat. 989. § 1553. Entry for transportation and exportation; lottery material from Canada (a) Any merchandise, other than explosives and merchandise the importation of which is prohibited, shown by the manifest, bill of lading, shipping receipt, or other document to be des- tined to a foreign country, may be entered for transportation in bond through the United States by a bonded carrier without appraise- ment or the payment of duties and exported under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; and any baggage or personal effects not containing merchandise the importation of which is prohibited arriving in the United States destined to a foreign country may, upon the request of the owner or carrier having the same in possession for transpor- tation, be entered for transportation in bond through the United States by a bonded carrier without appraisement or the payment of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. In places where no bonded common-carrier facilities are reasonably available, such merchandise may be so trans- ported otherwise than by a bonded common car- rier under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the entry for transportation in bond through the United States of any lottery ticket, printed paper that