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[CITE: 48USC744]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                         CHAPTER 4--PUERTO RICO
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 744. Coasting trade laws

    The coasting trade between Puerto Rico and the United States shall 
be regulated in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to such 
trade between any two great coasting districts of the United States.

(Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, Sec. 9, 31 Stat. 79; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 
Stat. 158.)

                          Codification

    Additional provisions of section 9 of act Apr. 12, 1900, authorizing 
the making of regulations for the nationalization of all vessels owned 
by inhabitants of Puerto Rico on April 11, 1889, and which continued to 
be so owned up to the date of that nationalization and for the admission 
of the same to all the benefits of the coasting trade of the United 
States, have been omitted.
    Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal 
Relations Act which comprises this chapter.

                         Change of Name

    ``Puerto Rico'' substituted in text for ``Porto Rico'' pursuant to 
act May 17, 1932, which is classified to section 731a of this title.
