§151 — Title 19 Customs Duties | U.S. Code

Summary

The Treasury Secretary can allow bonded warehouses for imported Mexican garbanzo (chickpeas). The garbanzo may be stored, cleaned, repacked, or otherwise changed (but not made into new products) and can be shipped out without paying import duty. If taken out for sale in the United States, duty must be paid on the amount removed based on how it was when imported. Warehouse owners must advance and hold money to pay customs supervisors and cover all related costs.

Title 19, §151

Customs Duties — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Under such regulations and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, bonded warehouses may be established in which imported Mexican peas, commonly called garbanzo may be stored, cleaned, repacked or otherwise changed in condition, but not manufactured, and withdrawn for exportation without the payment of duty thereon. The whole or any part of such imported garbanzo, and the waste material and by-products incident to cleaning or otherwise treating said imported garbanzo, may be withdrawn for domestic consumption upon the payment on the quantity so withdrawn of the duty imposed by law on such garbanzo in their condition as imported. The compensation of customs officers and storekeepers for all services in the supervision of such warehouses shall be paid from moneys advanced by the warehouse proprietor to the appropriate customs officer and be carried in a special account and disbursed for such purposes, and all expenses incurred shall be paid by the warehouse proprietor.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1970—Pub. L. 91–271 substituted reference to the appropriate customs officer for reference to the collector of customs.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1970 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 91–271 effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after Oct. 1, 1970, and such other articles entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption prior to such date, or with respect to which a protest has not been disallowed in whole or in part before Oct. 1, 1970, see section 203 of Pub. L. 91–271, set out as a note under section 1500 of this title.

§151 Bonded warehouses for storage and cleansing of imported garbanzo; withdrawals