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[CITE: 19USC1513]

 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
       Part III--Ascertainment, Collection, and Recovery of Duties
 
Sec. 1513. Customs officer's immunity

    No customs officer shall be liable in any way to any person for or 
on account of--
        (1) any ruling or decision regarding the appraisement or the 
    classification of any imported merchandise or regarding the duties, 
    fees, and taxes charged thereon,
        (2) the collection of any dues, charges, duties, fees, and taxes 
    on or on account of any imported merchandise, or
        (3) any other matter or thing as to which any person might under 
    this chapter be entitled to protest or appeal from the decision of 
    such officer.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 513, 46 Stat. 734; Pub. L. 91-
271, title III, Sec. 301(r), June 2, 1970, 84 Stat. 290; Pub. L. 103-
182, title VI, Sec. 644, Dec. 8, 1993, 107 Stat. 2206.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions substantially the same as those in this section, except 
that they did not specifically refer to rulings or decisions as to 
appraisement, were contained in act Oct. 3, 1913, ch. 16, Sec. III, Z, 
38 Stat. 191, which reenacted without change the provisions of the 
Customs Administrative Act of June 10, 1890, ch. 407, Sec. 25, 26 Stat. 
141, as reenacted by the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of Aug. 5, 1909, ch. 
6, Sec. 28, 36 Stat. 103. Section III, Z, of the 1913 act was superseded 
and more closely assimilated to this section by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 
356, title IV, Sec. 513, 42 Stat. 969, and repealed by section 643 
thereof. Section 513 of the 1922 act was superseded by section 513 of 
act June 17, 1930, comprising this section, and repealed by section 
651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.


                               Amendments

    1993--Pub. L. 103-182 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, 
section read as follows: ``No customs officer shall be in any way liable 
to any owner, importer, consignee, or agent or any other person for or 
on account of any rulings or decisions as to the appraisement or the 
classification of any imported merchandise or the duties charged 
thereon, or the collection of any dues, charges, or duties on or on 
account of said merchandise, or any other matter or thing as to which 
said owner, importer, consignee, or agent might under this chapter be 
entitled to protest or appeal from the decision of such officer.''
    1970--Pub. L. 91-271 substituted ``customs officer'' for ``collector 
or other customs officer'' and ``such officer'' for ``such collector or 
other officer''.


                    Effective Date of 1970 Amendment

    For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 91-271, see section 203 
of Pub. L. 91-271, set out as a note under section 1500 of this title.