§1322 — Title 19 Customs Duties | U.S. Code

Summary

The Treasury Secretary can set rules that let certain international vehicles and other instruments skip some customs rules. That authority does not include communications satellites or their parts. Under those rules, the Secretary can allow some things to enter without formal customs entry or import taxes: aircraft, equipment, supplies, and spare parts used for searches, rescues, investigations, repairs, and salvage after aircraft accidents; fire‑fighting and temporary emergency relief gear for big fires; rescue and relief supplies for floods and other disasters; and personal property for use on a separated tract of land under article III of the 1970 United States–Mexico boundary treaty about the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers (signed November 23, 1970).

Title 19, §1322

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(a)Vehicles and other instruments of international traffic, of any class specified by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be excepted from the application of the customs laws to such extent and subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed in regulations or instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury. The authority delegated to the Secretary by this subsection shall not extend to communications satellites and components and parts thereof.

(b)The Secretary of the Treasury may provide by regulation or instruction for the admission, without entry and without the payment of any duty or tax imposed upon or by reason of importation, of—

(1)aircraft, equipment, supplies, and spare parts for use in searches, rescues, investigations, repairs, and salvage in connection with accidental damage to aircraft;

(2)fire-fighting and rescue and relief equipment and supplies for emergent temporary use in connection with conflagrations;

(3)rescue and relief equipment and supplies for emergent temporary use in connection with floods and other disasters; and

(4)personal property related to the use and enjoyment of a separated tract of land as described in article III of the Treaty To Resolve Pending Boundary Differences and Maintain the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers as the International Boundary between the United States of America and the United Mexican States signed on November 23, 1970.

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1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–573, § 127(b), substituted “excepted” for “granted the customary exceptions”. Pub. L. 98–573, § 124(c), inserted “The authority delegated to the Secretary by this subsection shall not extend to communications satellites and components and parts thereof.” 1972—Pub. L. 92–549, § 107(a), inserted “United States-Mexico Boundary Treaty of 1970” in section catchline. Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 92–549, § 107(b), added cl. (4).

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of 1984 Amendment Pub. L. 98–573, title I, § 195(a), (b), (d), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2972, provided that: “(a) Except as provided in section 126 and in subsections (b) and (c), the

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made by subtitles B, C, and D [amending this section and section 1202 and 1504 of this title] shall apply with respect to articles entered on or after the 15th day after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 1984]. “(b)(1) The amendment made by section 117 and 124 [amending this section] shall apply with respect to articles entered on or after January 1, 1985. “(2) The

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made by section 127 [amending this section] shall apply with respect to articles entered on or after a date to be proclaimed by the President which shall be consonant with the entering into force for the United States of the Customs Convention on Containers, 1972. “(d) For purposes of this section—“(1) The term ‘entered’ means entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption in the customs territory of the United States. “(2) The term ‘entry’ includes any withdrawal from warehouse.”

Effective Date

Section effective on and after thirtieth day following Aug. 8, 1953, see note set out under section 1304 of this title.

§1322 International Traffic and Rescue Work; United States-mexico Boundary Treaty of 1970

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