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§55120 Transshipment of Imported Merchandise Intended for Immediate Exportation
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Summary
The Secretary of Homeland Security can make rules about moving or transferring goods that are brought into the United States by ship and are meant to be sent out right away to another country. The rules also cover goods sent to a foreign port by ship or sent by a river that both U.S. citizens and people from another country have treaty rights to use for commerce.
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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
Title 46, Shipping
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102