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§55120 Transshipment of Imported Merchandise Intended for Immediate Exportation

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Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Homeland Security can make rules about moving goods that arrive in the United States by ship and are meant to be sent right away to a foreign port by ship or by a river open to trade under a treaty.

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Title 46, §55120

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The Secretary of Homeland Security may prescribe regulations for the transshipment and transportation of merchandise that is imported into the United States by sea for immediate exportation to a foreign port by sea, or by a river, the right to ascend or descend which for the purposes of commerce is secured by treaty to the citizens of the United States and the subjects of a foreign power.

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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 5512046 App.:291.Feb. 17, 1898, ch. 26, § 3, 30 Stat. 248.

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46 U.S.C. § 55120

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Apr 5, 2026

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