                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
     Part IV--Transportation in Bond and Warehousing of Merchandise
 
Sec. 1552. Entry for immediate transportation

    Any merchandise, other than explosives and merchandise the 
importation of which is prohibited, arriving at a port of entry in the 
United States may be entered, under such rules and regulations as the 
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, for transportation in bond 
without appraisement to any other port of entry designated by the 
consignee, or his agent, and by such bonded carrier as he designates, 
there to be entered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 552, 46 Stat. 742.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act 
Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 552, 42 Stat. 975. That section 
was superseded by section 552 of act June 17, 1930, comprising this 
section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
    Prior provisions for transportation in bond without appraisement of 
merchandise with certain exceptions, when imported at certain named 
ports and destined for certain ports, were contained in act June 10, 
1880, ch. 190, Secs. 1 (as amended by act June 14, 1880, ch. 214, and 
act June 20, 1884, ch. 103) 2, 7, and 9, 21 Stat. 173, 174, 175. 
Sections 5 (as amended by act July 2, 1884, ch. 142, and act Feb. 23, 
1887, ch. 215, and act Feb. 2, 1899, ch. 84) and 6 (as amended by act 
July 2, 1884, ch. 142), regulated the transportation and transfer of the 
merchandise. The act of June 10, 1880 was amended by act Feb. 23, 1887, 
ch. 218, 24 Stat. 414, and its provisions were extended by various acts 
to ports other than those originally named. The act of June 10, 1880, 
ch. 190, as amended, and the acts of Feb. 23, 1887, ch. 218, and Feb. 2, 
1899, ch. 84, were all repealed by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title 
IV, Sec. 643, 42 Stat. 989, and the various acts extending the 
provisions of the act of June 10, 1880, thereupon became inoperative.
    R.S. Secs. 2990-2997, as amended by act Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80, 18 
Stat. 319, and as extended by act Mar. 14, 1876, ch. 23, 19 Stat. 7, and 
act Aug. 14, 1876, ch. 270, 19 Stat. 139, contained provisions somewhat 
similar to those of the act of June 10, 1880, ch. 190, and were repealed 
by section 8 of the 1880 act.
    R.S. Sec. 2581, relative to the transshipment of merchandise 
transported in bond to the port of Brownsville, by Brazos Harbor; R.S. 
Secs. 2816-2831, as amended by act Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, Sec. 1, 19 
Stat. 246, 247, and act June 16, 1880, ch. 239, 21 Stat. 283, relative 
to transportation of merchandise intended to be imported into certain 
ports of delivery; and R.S. Sec. 2998, prescribing a penalty for 
breaking or entering any car, etc., containing merchandise transported 
under sections 2990-2997, or defacing any lock or seal, etc.--were all 
repealed by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 642, 42 Stat. 
989.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1315, 1484 of this title.
