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[CITE: 13USC304]

 
                            TITLE 13--CENSUS
 
  CHAPTER 9--COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION OF FOREIGN COMMERCE AND TRADE 
                               STATISTICS
 
Sec. 304. Filing export information, delayed filings, penalties 
        for failure to file
        
    (a) The information or reports in connection with the exportation or 
transportation of cargo required to be filed by carriers with the 
Secretary of the Treasury under any rule, regulation, or order issued 
pursuant to this chapter may be filed after the departure of such 
carrier from the port or place of exportation or transportation, whether 
such departing carrier is destined directly to a foreign port or place 
or to a noncontiguous area, or proceeds by way of other ports or places 
of the United States, provided that a bond in an approved form in the 
penal sum of $1,000 is filed with the Secretary of the Treasury. The 
Secretary of Commerce may, by a rule, regulation, or order issued in 
conformity herewith, prescribe a maximum period after such departure 
during which the required information or reports may be filed. In the 
event any such information or report is not filed within such prescribed 
period, a penalty not to exceed $100 for each day's delinquency beyond 
the prescribed period, but not more than $1,000, shall be exacted. Civil 
suit may be instituted in the name of the United States against the 
principal and surety for the recovery of any penalties that may accrue 
and be exacted in accordance with the terms of the bond.
    (b) The Secretary may remit or mitigate any penalty incurred for 
violations of this section and regulations issued pursuant thereto if, 
in his opinion, they were incurred without willful negligence or fraud, 
or other circumstances justify a remission or mitigation.

(Added Pub. L. 87-826, Sec. 2, Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 952.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 305 of this title.
