UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION SPECIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS (Titles III and IV) of the TARIFF ACT OF 1930, AS AMENDED as in effect on October 1, 1970 TC Publication 343 U.S. Government Printing Office UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION GLENN W. SUTTON, Presiding Commissioner BRUCE E. CLUBB WILL E. LEONARD, JR. GEORGE M. MOORE KENNETH R. MASON, Secretary Address all communications UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20436 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $2 SPECIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS Tariff Act of 1930, As Amended INTRODUCTION III This publication reproduces Title III (Special Provisions) and Title IV (Administrative Provisions) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, as in effect on October 1, 1970. It has been prepared to meet the demands of governmental and public users for a work of this kind. Titles I and II of the Tariff Act of 1930, which formerly contained the "Dutiable List" and "Free List" tariff schedules have been replaced by a new Title I in which both dutiable and duty-free arti cles are listed together. sion publication titled: Annotated (1970)" (TSUSA). Title I is contained in a Tariff Commis "Tariff Schedules of the United States The primary purpose of this publication is to reflect the current text of the Special and Administrative Provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, in simple form. Where a section has been repealed or is obsolete, it is briefly identified, but omitted from the text. If a section of the Act refers to an obsolete or repealed provision of some other statute or code, the citation of the superseding provision of the law or code is used in lieu of the obsolete or repealed provision or, if there is no superseding provision, the reference to the obsolete or repealed provision is omitted in the text. Text appearing in brackets is not part of the Tariff Act text but is merely explanatory or supplementary. IV Citations to amendments and collateral provisions of law are stated in the marginal notes. Beside each section of the Act there appears the corresponding United States Code citation. Immediately under the Code citation are the Statute-at-Large citations of the A table is appended hereto in which the user may find the public law number of each statute cited in the marginal column. The public laws may be found in the Treasury Decision volumes in which they are indexed. 19 U.S. C. 1301 60 Stat. 158' See General Headnote 3(c) in the TSUS. 19 U.S.C. 1301a 68 Stat. 1139 76 Stat. 75 19 U.S.C. 1302 53 Stat. 1 See 26 U.S.C. 7653 19 U.S.c. 1303 See 19 CFR 16.24 for current countervailing duties. 19 U.S.C. 1304 52 Stat. 1077 SEC. 301 (Original). Repealed. (Dutiable status of Philippine products).] see SEC. 301. Repealed. (Articles from insular possessions SEC. 302. Repealed. (Articles sent from United States to Puerto SEC. 303. COUNTERVAILING DUTIES. Whenever any country, dependency, colony, province, or other political subdivision of government, person, partnership, association, cartel, or corporation shall pay or bestow, directly or indirectly, any bounty or grant upon the manufacture or production or export of any article or merchandise manufactured or produced in such country, dependency, colony, province, or other political subdivision of government, and such article or merchandise is dutiable under the provisions of this Act, then upon the importation of any such article or merchandise into the United States, whether the same shall be imported directly from the country of production or otherwise, and whether such article or merchandise is imported in the same condition as when exported from the country of production or has been changed in condition by remanufacture or otherwise, there shall be levied and paid, in all such cases, in addition to the duties otherwise imposed by this Act, an additional duty equal to the net amount of such bounty or grant, however the same be paid or bestowed. The Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time ascertain and determine, or estimate, the net amount of each such bounty or grant, and shall declare the net amount so determined or estimated. The Secretary of the Treasury shall make all regulations he may deem necessary for the identification of such articles and merchandise and for the assessment and collection of such additional duties. SEC. 304. MARKING OF IMPORTED ARTICLES AND CONTAINERS. (a) Marking of Articles.--Except as hereinafter provided, every article of foreign origin (or its container, as provided in subsection (b) hereof) imported into the United States shall be marked in a conspicuous place as legibly, indelibly, and permanently as the nature of the article (or container) will permit in such manner as to indicate to an ultimate purchaser in the United States the English name of the country of origin of the article. The Secretary of the Treasury may by regulations- (1) Determine the character of words and phrases or abbreviations thereof which shall be acceptable as indicating the country of origin and prescribe any reasonable method of marking, whether by printing, stenciling, stamping, branding, |