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[CITE: 22USC406]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
         CHAPTER 9--FOREIGN WARS, WAR MATERIALS, AND NEUTRALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER I--WAR MATERIALS
 
Sec. 406. Interference with foreign trade

    Except in those cases in which the exportation of arms and munitions 
of war or other articles is forbidden by proclamation or otherwise by 
the President, as provided in section 401 of this title, nothing herein 
contained shall be construed to extend to, or interfere with any trade 
in such commodities, conducted with any foreign port or place 
wheresoever, or with any other trade which might have been lawfully 
carried on before June 15, 1917, under the law of nations, or under the 
treaties or conventions entered into by the United States, or under the 
laws thereof.

(June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VI, Sec. 6, 40 Stat. 225.)

                       References in Text

    Herein, referred to in text, means act June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title 
VI, 40 Stat. 223, as amended, which enacted sections 31 to 39, 98, 130 
to 133, 288, 343 to 346, 381, 502, 535, 536, 574, and 611 to 633 of 
former Title 18, Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure, sections 213, 231 
to 233, 235, 401 to 408a, 462, and 465 of this title, and sections 30 to 
42, 191, and 192 to 195 of Title 50, War and National Defense, and 
amended sections 25, 27, and 349 of former Title 18. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 408, 408a of this title.
