Title 19Customs DutiesRelease 119-73

§3002 Definitions

Title 19 › Chapter CHAPTER 18— - IMPLEMENTATION OF HARMONIZED TARIFF SCHEDULE › § 3002

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Summary

Lists simple meanings for words used in this chapter. "Commission" means the United States International Trade Commission. "Convention" means the international agreement on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System signed in Brussels on June 14, 1983, and its Protocol of June 24, 1986, which was sent to Congress on June 15, 1987. "Entered" means brought into the U.S. customs area for use or taken out of storage for use. "Federal agency" means any part of the executive branch of the U.S. government. "Old Schedules" means title I of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1202) as it stood the day before the amendment under section 1204(a) took effect. "Technical rectifications" means small editorial or clerical fixes (like spelling, numbering, layout, or wrong cross-references) that do not change the meaning.

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Title 19, §3002

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As used in this chapter:
(1)The term “Commission” means the United States International Trade Commission.
(2)The term “Convention” means the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, done at Brussels on June 14, 1983, and the Protocol thereto, done at Brussels on June 24, 1986, submitted to the Congress on June 15, 1987.
(3)The term “entered” means entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, in the customs territory of the United States.
(4)The term “Federal agency” means any establishment in the executive branch of the United States Government.
(5)The term “old Schedules” means title I of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1202) as in effect on the day before the effective date of the amendment to such title under section 1204(a).
(6)The term “technical rectifications” means rectifications of an editorial character or minor technical or clerical changes which do not affect the substance or meaning of the text, such as—
(A)errors in spelling, numbering, or punctuation;
(B)errors in indentation;
(C)errors (including inadvertent omissions) in cross-references to headings or subheadings or notes; and
(D)other clerical or typographical errors.

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle B (§§ 1201 to 1217) of title I of Pub. L. 100–418, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this subtitle to the Code, see

References in Text

note set out under section 3001 of this title and Tables. Title I of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1202) as in effect on the day before the

Effective Date

of the amendment to such title under section 1204(a), referred to in par. (5), is title I of act June 17, 1930, ch. 497, 46 Stat. 590, as in effect on the day before Jan. 1, 1989. Title I of the Tariff Act of 1930 which comprised the Tariff Schedules of the United States was not set out in the Code.

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19 U.S.C. § 3002

Title 19Customs Duties

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73