Title 19 — Customs DutiesRelease 119-73
§1551a Bonded cartmen or lightermen
Title 19 › Chapter CHAPTER 4— - TARIFF ACT OF 1930 › Subtitle SUBTITLE III— - ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Part Part IV— - Transportation in Bond and Warehousing of Merchandise › § 1551a
Summary
The Secretary of the Treasury may allow imported goods that customs has entered to be moved by bonded cartmen or bonded lightermen between the ports of New York, Newark, and Perth Amboy (Customs Collection District No. 10), even if law usually requires a bonded common carrier. This does not take away any port’s rights or privileges as a port of entry.
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Title 19, §1551a
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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 merchandise which has been entered and examined for customs purposes to be transported by bonded 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 privileges as a port of entry.
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Codification Section was not enacted as part of Tariff Act of 1930 which comprises this chapter.
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19 U.S.C. § 1551a
Title 19 — Customs Duties
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
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