§ 197. — Duties, how payable.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 19USC197]
TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
CHAPTER 3--THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS
SUBTITLE III--SPECIAL PROVISIONS
Payment of Duty
Sec. 197. Duties, how payable
Except as provided in section 198 of this title all duties upon
imports shall be collected in ready money, and shall be paid in coin,
coin certificates, and such other certificates or Treasury notes as may
by law be declared receivable in payment thereof.
(R.S. Sec. 3009; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, 19 Stat. 247, 249.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 3009 derived from acts Mar. 2, 1833, ch. 55, Sec. 3, 4
Stat. 630; Aug. 6, 1846, ch. 84, Sec. 1, 9 Stat. 53; Feb. 25, 1862, ch.
33, Sec. 5, 12 Stat. 346.
R.S. Sec. 3473, formerly cited as a credit to this section, was
repealed by Pub. L. 95-598, title III, Sec. 322(d), title IV,
Sec. 402(a), Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2679, 2682, effective Oct. 1, 1979.
Prior to its incorporation into the Code, R.S. Sec. 3009, as amended
by act Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, 19 Stat. 247, read: ``All duties upon
imports shall be collected in ready money, and shall be paid in coin or
coin certificates or in United States notes, payable on demand,
authorized to be issued prior to the twenty-fifth day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and by law receivable in payment
of public dues.''
Its provisions were changed to conform to section 198 of this title
authorizing the receipt of certified checks in payment of duties;
section 405 of Title 31, Money and Finance (act Feb. 28, 1878, ch. 20,
Sec. 3, 20 Stat. 26) making certain certificates and treasury notes
receivable for customs; section 451 of Title 31, (act Dec. 24, 1919, ch.
15, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 370) making gold certificates a legal tender in
payment of all debts and dues, public and private; and a provision of
act Mar. 14, 1900, ch. 41, Sec. 6, 31 Stat. 47, as amended (omitted from
the Code as superseded by section 451 of Title 31) that gold
certificates should be receivable for customs.