                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                     Part V--Enforcement Provisions
 
Sec. 1588. Transportation between American ports via foreign 
        ports
        
    If any merchandise is laden at any port or place in the United 
States upon any vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of a 
foreign country, and is taken thence to a foreign port or place to be 
reladen and reshipped to any other port in the United States, either by 
the same or by another vessel, foreign or American, with intent to evade 
the provisions relating to the transportation of merchandise from one 
port or place of the United States to another port or place of the 
United States in a vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of 
any foreign power, the merchandise shall, on its arrival at such last-
named port or place, be seized and forfeited to the United States, and 
the vessel shall pay a tonnage duty of 50 cents per net ton.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 588, 46 Stat. 749.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1554 of this title.
