                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
           SUBTITLE IV--COUNTERVAILING AND ANTIDUMPING DUTIES
 
               Part I--Imposition of Countervailing Duties
 
Sec. 1671h. Conditional payment of countervailing duties


(a) In general

    For all entries, or withdrawals from warehouse, for consumption of 
merchandise subject to a countervailing duty order on or after the date 
of publication of such order, no customs officer may deliver merchandise 
of that class or kind to the person by whom or for whose account it was 
imported unless that person complies with the requirement of subsection 
(b) of this section and deposits with the appropriate customs officer an 
estimated countervailing duty in an amount determined by the 
administering authority.

(b) Importer requirements

    In order to meet the requirements of this subsection, a person 
shall--
        (1) furnish, or arrange to have furnished, to the appropriate 
    customs officer such information as the administering authority 
    deems necessary for ascertaining any countervailing duty to be 
    imposed under this part,
        (2) maintain and furnish to the customs officer such records 
    concerning such merchandise as the administering authority, by 
    regulation, requires, and
        (3) pay, or agree to pay on demand, to the customs officer the 
    amount of countervailing duty imposed under this part on that 
    merchandise.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title VII, Sec. 709, as added Pub. L. 98-573, 
title VI, Sec. 608, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3029.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 30, 1984, see section 626(a) of Pub. L. 98-
573, set out as an Effective Date of 1984 Amendment note under section 
1671 of this title.
