                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
              CHAPTER 3--THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS
 
                   SUBTITLE IV--CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION
 
                        Administrative Provisions
 
       part 2--report, entry, and unlading of vessels and vehicles
 
Sec. 294. No duty by reason of documented vessel touching at 
        foreign port
        
    Any foreign merchandise taken in at one port of the United States to 
be conveyed in a United States documented vessel with a registry or 
coastwise endorsement, or both, to any other port within the same, 
either under the provisions relating to warehouses, or under the laws 
regulating the transportation coastwise of merchandise entitled to 
drawback, as well as any merchandise not entitled to drawback, but on 
which the import duties chargeable by law shall have been duly paid, 
shall not become subject to any import duty by reason of the vessel in 
which they may arrive having touched at a foreign port during the 
voyage.

(R.S. Sec. 3127; Pub. L. 103-182, title VI, Sec. 686(a)(3), Dec. 8, 
1993, 107 Stat. 2220; Pub. L. 104-295, Sec. 21(e)(2), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 
Stat. 3530.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 3127 derived from act May 27, 1848, ch. 48, Sec. 2, 9 
Stat. 232.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-295 substituted ``conveyed in a United'' for 
``conveyed a United''.
    1993--Pub. L. 103-182 substituted ``a United States documented 
vessel with a registry or coastwise endorsement, or both,'' for ``in 
registered vessels''.
