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Title 19, Customs DutiesRelease 119-110

§1671h Conditional Payment of Countervailing Duty

Title 19 › CHAPTER 4 — TARIFF ACT OF 1930 › SUBTITLE IV — COUNTERVAILING AND ANTIDUMPING DUTIES › Part I — Imposition of Countervailing Duties › § 1671h

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Customs will not release imported goods covered by a countervailing duty order for any entry or warehouse withdrawal on or after the order’s publication date unless the importer follows the rules and deposits an estimated duty amount set by the administering authority. To comply, the importer must give any information the authority needs to figure the duty, keep and give required records, and pay or agree to pay the duty when asked.

Full Legal Text

Title 19, §1671h

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(a)In general
For all entries, or withdrawals from warehouse, for consumption of merchandise subject to a countervailing duty order on or after the date of publication of such order, no customs officer may deliver merchandise of that class or kind to the person by whom or for whose account it was imported unless that person complies with the requirement of subsection (b) and deposits with the appropriate customs officer an estimated countervailing duty in an amount determined by the administering authority.
(b)Importer requirements
In order to meet the requirements of this subsection, a person shall—
(1)furnish, or arrange to have furnished, to the appropriate customs officer such information as the administering authority deems necessary for ascertaining any countervailing duty to be imposed under this part,
(2)maintain and furnish to the customs officer such records concerning such merchandise as the administering authority, by regulation, requires, and
(3)pay, or agree to pay on demand, to the customs officer the amount of countervailing duty imposed under this part on that merchandise.

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Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 30, 1984, see section 626(a) of Pub. L. 98–573, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1984 Amendment note under section 1671 of this title.

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Citation

19 U.S.C. § 1671h

Title 19, Customs Duties

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110