2002 US Code
Title 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES
CHAPTER 20 - ANDEAN TRADE PREFERENCE
Sec. 3206 - Termination of preferential treatment

No duty-free treatment or other preferential treatment extended to beneficiary countries under this chapter shall remain in effect after December 31, 2006.

(Pub. L. 102–182, title II, §208, Dec. 4, 1991, 105 Stat. 1244; Pub. L. 107–210, div. C, title XXXI, §3104(a), Aug. 6, 2002, 116 Stat. 1034.)

2002—Pub. L. 107–210 substituted “Termination of preferential treatment” for “Effective date and termination of duty-free treatment” in section catchline and amended text generally, substituting provisions establishing a termination date of Dec. 31, 2006, for preferential treatment under this chapter for provisions designated subsecs. (a) and (b) establishing an effective date of Dec. 4, 1991, for this chapter and a termination date 10 years later for duty-free treatment under this chapter.

Pub. L. 107–210, div. C, title XXXI, §3104(b), Aug. 6, 2002, 116 Stat. 1034, provided that:

“(1) In general.—Notwithstanding section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930 [19 U.S.C. 1514] or any other provision of law, and subject to paragraph (3), the entry—

“(A) of any article to which duty-free treatment (or preferential treatment) under the Andean Trade Preference Act (19 U.S.C. 3201 et seq.) would have applied if the entry had been made on December 4, 2001, and

“(B) that was made after December 4, 2001, and before the date of the enactment of this Act [Aug. 6, 2002],

shall be liquidated or reliquidated as if such duty-free treatment (or preferential treatment) applied, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall refund any duty paid with respect to such entry.

“(2) Entry.—As used in this subsection, the term ‘entry’ includes a withdrawal from warehouse for consumption.

“(3) Requests.—Liquidation or reliquidation may be made under paragraph (1) with respect to an entry only if a request therefor is filed with the Customs Service, within 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, that contains sufficient information to enable the Customs Service—

“(A) to locate the entry; or

“(B) to reconstruct the entry if it cannot be located.”

[For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the United States Customs Service of the Department of the Treasury, including functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 203(1), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.]