                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                     SUBTITLE II--SPECIAL PROVISIONS
 
                          Part I--Miscellaneous
 
Sec. 1322. International traffic and rescue work; United States-
        Mexico Boundary Treaty of 1970
        

(a) Vehicles and other instruments of international traffic except 
        communications satellites

    Vehicles and other instruments of international traffic, of any 
class specified by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be excepted from 
the application of the customs laws to such extent and subject to such 
terms and conditions as may be prescribed in regulations or instructions 
of the Secretary of the Treasury. The authority delegated to the 
Secretary by this subsection shall not extend to communications 
satellites and components and parts thereof.

(b) Rescue and relief equipment; personal property related to use of 
        land under United States-Mexico Boundary Treaty of 1970; forfeit 
        of articles to United States

    The Secretary of the Treasury may provide by regulation or 
instruction for the admission, without entry and without the payment of 
any duty or tax imposed upon or by reason of importation, of--
        (1) aircraft, equipment, supplies, and spare parts for use in 
    searches, rescues, investigations, repairs, and salvage in 
    connection with accidental damage to aircraft;
        (2) fire-fighting and rescue and relief equipment and supplies 
    for emergent temporary use in connection with conflagrations;
        (3) rescue and relief equipment and supplies for emergent 
    temporary use in connection with floods and other disasters; and
        (4) personal property related to the use and enjoyment of a 
    separated tract of land as described in article III of the Treaty To 
    Resolve Pending Boundary Differences and Maintain the Rio Grande and 
    Colorado Rivers as the International Boundary between the United 
    States of America and the United Mexican States signed on November 
    23, 1970.

Any articles admitted under the authority of this subsection and used 
otherwise than for a purpose herein expressed, or not exported in such 
time and manner as may be prescribed in the regulations or instructions 
herein authorized, shall be forfeited to the United States.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, Sec. 322, as added Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 
397, Sec. 14, 67 Stat. 516; amended Pub. L. 92-549, title I, Sec. 107, 
Oct. 25, 1972, 86 Stat. 1162; Pub. L. 98-573, title I, Secs. 124(c), 
127(b), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2959.)

                       References in Text

    The customs laws, referred to in subsec. (a), are classified 
generally to this title.


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98-573, Sec. 127(b), substituted 
``excepted'' for ``granted the customary exceptions''.
    Pub. L. 98-573, Sec. 124(c), inserted ``The authority delegated to 
the Secretary by this subsection shall not extend to communications 
satellites and components and parts thereof.''
    1972--Pub. L. 92-549, Sec. 107(a), inserted ``United States-Mexico 
Boundary Treaty of 1970'' in section catchline.
    Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 92-549, Sec. 107(b), added cl. (4).


                    Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

    Section 195(a), (b), (d) of Pub. L. 98-573 provided that:
    ``(a) Except as provided in section 126 and in subsections (b) and 
(c), the amendments made by subtitles B, C, and D [amending this section 
and sections 1202 and 1504 of this title] shall apply with respect to 
articles entered on or after the 15th day after the date of the 
enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 1984].
    ``(b)(1) The amendment made by sections 117 and 124 [amending this 
section] shall apply with respect to articles entered on or after 
January 1, 1985.
    ``(2) The amendments made by section 127 [amending this section] 
shall apply with respect to articles entered on or after a date to be 
proclaimed by the President which shall be consonant with the entering 
into force for the United States of the Customs Convention on 
Containers, 1972.
    ``(d) For purposes of this section--
        ``(1) The term `entered' means entered, or withdrawn from 
    warehouse for consumption in the customs territory of the United 
    States.
        ``(2) The term `entry' includes any withdrawal from warehouse.''


                             Effective Date

    Section effective on and after thirtieth day following Aug. 8, 1953, 
see note set out under section 1304 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 46 App. section 883.
