2013 US Code
Title 19 - Customs Duties
Chapter 5 - SMUGGLING (§§ 1701 - 1711)
Section 1706 - Importation in vessels under thirty tons and aircraft; licenses; labels as prima facie evidence of foreign origin of merchandise
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES CHAPTER 5 - SMUGGLING Sec. 1706 - Importation in vessels under thirty tons and aircraft; licenses; labels as prima facie evidence of foreign origin of merchandise |
Contains | section 1706 |
Date | 2013 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Aug. 5, 1935, ch. 438, title I, §6, 49 Stat. 519. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 49 Stat. 519 |
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Except into the districts adjoining to the Dominion of Canada, or into the districts adjacent to Mexico, no merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture subject to the payment of duties shall be brought into the United States from any foreign port or place, or from any hovering vessel, in any vessel of less than thirty net tons burden without special license granted by the Secretary of the Treasury under such conditions as he may prescribe, nor in any other manner than by sea, except by aircraft duly licensed in accordance with law, or landed or unladen at any other port than is directed by law, under the penalty of seizure and forfeiture of all such unlicensed vessels or aircraft and of the merchandise imported therein, landed or unladen in any manner. Marks, labels, brands, or stamps, indicative of foreign origin, upon or accompanying merchandise or containers of merchandise found upon any such vessel or aircraft, shall be prima facie evidence of the foreign origin of such merchandise.
(Aug. 5, 1935, ch. 438, title I, §6, 49 Stat. 519.)
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