§ 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Provided, That all such articles, when sold or withdrawn for consumption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.