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§ 144a. —  Entry under bond of exhibits of arts, sciences, and industries, and products of soil, mine, and sea.



[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 19USC144a]

 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
              CHAPTER 3--THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS
 
                    SUBTITLE III--SPECIAL PROVISIONS
 
  Special Provisions for Admission or Withdrawal From Bonded Warehouse 
                         Without Payment of Duty
 
Sec. 144a. Entry under bond of exhibits of arts, sciences, and 
        industries, and products of soil, mine, and sea
        
    All articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the 
sole purpose of exhibition or display at a permanent exhibition or 
exhibitions and/or at a temporary exhibition or exhibitions of the arts, 
sciences, and industries, and products of the soil, mine, and sea, to be 
held at any time and from time to time by Rockefeller Center 
(Incorporated), a corporation organized under the laws of the State of 
New York, and/or by its tenants or licensees in a building or buildings 
to be owned by Rockefeller Center (Incorporated), and to be a part of 
and to be known as Rockefeller Center and to be located between Fifth 
and Sixth Avenues and Forty-eighth and Fifty-first Streets, in the 
Borough of Manhattan, city and State of New York, upon which articles 
there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted free of such 
tariff, customs duty, fees, or charges under such regulations as the 
Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful, at 
any time during or at the close of any exhibition held pursuant to this 
section, to sell for delivery at the close thereof any goods or property 
imported for and actually displayed at such exhibition, subject to such 
regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of 
import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: 
Provided, That all such articles, when sold or withdrawn for consumption 
or use in the United States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, 
imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of 
their withdrawal and to the requirements of the tariff laws in effect at 
such date: And provided further, That Rockefeller Center (Incorporated) 
shall be deemed, for customs purposes only, to be the sole consignee of 
all merchandise imported under the provisions of this section, and that 
all necessary governmental expenses incurred as a result of exhibitions 
authorized under this section, including salaries of customs officials 
in charge of imported articles, shall be paid to the Treasury of the 
United States by Rockefeller Center (Incorporated) under regulations to 
be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: And provided further, 
That all such articles shall, at the expiration of two years, be subject 
to the impost duty then in force, unless the same shall have been sold 
or exported from this country prior to that period of time: And provided 
further, That nothing in this section contained shall be construed as an 
invitation, express or implied, from the Government of the United States 
to any foreign government, state, municipality, corporation, 
partnership, or individual to import any articles for the purpose of 
exhibition at the said exhibitions.

(July 19, 1932, ch. 511, 47 Stat. 705.)


    Immunity From Seizure Under Judicial Process of Cultural Objects 
              Imported for Temporary Exhibition or Display

    Presidential determination of cultural significance of objects and 
exhibition or display thereof in the national interest, see section 2459 
of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.



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