§ 288b. — Baggage and effects of officers and employees exempted from customs duties and internal revenue taxes.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC288b]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
SUBCHAPTER XVIII--PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
Sec. 288b. Baggage and effects of officers and employees
exempted from customs duties and internal revenue taxes
Pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Customs
with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the baggage and
effects of alien officers and employees of international organizations,
or of aliens designated by foreign governments to serve as their
representatives in or to such organizations, or of the families, suites,
and servants of such officers, employees, or representatives shall be
admitted (when imported in connection with the arrival of the owner)
free of customs duties and free of internal-revenue taxes imposed upon
or by reason of importation.
(Dec. 29, 1945, ch. 652, title I, Sec. 3, 59 Stat. 669.)
Transfer of Functions
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.
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Treasury, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Treasury, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 26, Secs. 1,
2, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, 1281, set out in the
Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. The
Commissioner of Customs, referred to in text, was an officer of the
Treasury Department.
