                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                    Part VI--Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Sec. 1646b. Random customs inspections for stolen automobiles 
        being exported
        
    The Commissioner of Customs shall direct customs officers to conduct 
at random inspections of automobiles, and of shipping containers that 
may contain automobiles that are being exported, for purposes of 
determining whether such automobiles were stolen.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 646A, as added Pub. L. 102-519, 
title IV, Sec. 401, Oct. 25, 1992, 106 Stat. 3400.)


  Pilot Study Authorizing Utility of Nondestructive Examination System

    Section 402 of Pub. L. 102-519 provided that: ``The Secretary of the 
Treasury, acting through the Commissioner of Customs, shall conduct a 
pilot study of the utility of a nondestructive examination system to be 
used for inspection of containers that may contain automobiles leaving 
the country for the purpose of determining whether such automobiles have 
been stolen.''
