                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
      Part II--Report, Entry, and Unlading of Vessels and Vehicles
 
Sec. 1446. Supplies and stores retained on board

    Vessels arriving in the United States from foreign ports may retain 
on board, without the payment of duty, all coal and other fuel supplies, 
ships' stores, sea stores, and the legitimate equipment of such vessels. 
Any such supplies, ships' stores, sea stores, or equipment landed and 
delivered from such vessel shall be considered and treated as imported 
merchandise: Provided, That bunker coal, bunker oil, ships' stores, sea 
stores, or the legitimate equipment of vessels belonging to regular 
lines plying between foreign ports and the United States, which are 
delayed in port for any cause, may be transferred under a permit by the 
appropriate customs officer and under customs supervision from the 
vessel so delayed to another vessel of the same line and owner, and 
engaged in the foreign trade, without the payment of duty thereon.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 446, 46 Stat. 713; Pub. L. 91-
271, title III, Sec. 301(b), June 2, 1970, 84 Stat. 287.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act 
Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 446, 42 Stat. 953. That section 
was superseded by section 446 of act June 17, 1930, comprising this 
section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
    Provisions similar to those in the last sentence of this section 
concerning sea stores and equipment, were contained in R.S. Sec. 2797, 
as amended by act Mar. 3, 1897, ch. 389, Sec. 17, 29 Stat. 691. A 
provision that steam vessels might retain coal on board without being 
required to land it or pay duty was contained in R.S. Sec. 2798. 
Provision for collection of duty on excessive quantities of sea stores 
was made by R.S. Sec. 2796. All of these sections were repealed by act 
Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 642, 42 Stat. 989.


                               Amendments

    1970--Pub. L. 91-271 substituted reference to appropriate customs 
officer for reference to collector.


                    Effective Date of 1970 Amendment

    For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 91-271, see section 203 
of Pub. L. 91-271, set out as a note under section 1500 of this title.
