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[CITE: 19USC1706]

 
                        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
        
    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, Sec. 6, 49 Stat. 519.)