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[CITE: 49USC41908]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                     SUBTITLE VII--AVIATION PROGRAMS
 
                     PART A--AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETY
 
                     subpart ii--economic regulation
 
                   CHAPTER 419--TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL
 
Sec. 41908. Prices for transporting mail of foreign countries

    (a) Price Determinations.--The United States Postal Service shall 
determine the prices that an air carrier holding a certificate that 
authorizes foreign air transportation must charge a government of a 
foreign country or foreign postal administration for transporting mail 
of the foreign country. The Postal Service shall put those prices into 
effect under the postal convention regulating postal relations between 
the United States and the foreign country or as provided under this 
section.
    (b) Changes.--The Postal Service may authorize an air carrier 
holding a certificate that authorizes foreign air transportation, under 
limitations the Postal Service prescribes, to change the prices the 
carrier charges a government of a foreign country or foreign postal 
administration for transporting mail of the foreign country in the 
foreign country or between the foreign country and another foreign 
country.
    (c) Collecting Compensation.--(1) When an air carrier holding a 
certificate that authorizes foreign air transportation transports mail 
of a foreign country--
        (A) under an arrangement with a government of a foreign country 
    or foreign postal administration made or approved under this 
    section, the carrier must collect its compensation for the 
    transportation from the foreign country under the arrangement; and
        (B) without having an arrangement with a government of a foreign 
    country or foreign postal administration consistent with this 
    section, the compensation collected by the United States Government 
    for the transportation shall be for the account of the air carrier.

    (2) An air carrier holding a certificate that authorizes foreign air 
transportation is not entitled to receive compensation from both a 
government of a foreign country or foreign postal administration and the 
United States Government for transporting the same mail of the foreign 
country.

(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1156.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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41908(a)..............................  49 App.:1375(f)(1) (2d, 3d       Aug. 2
3, 1958, Pub. L. 85-726, Sec.
                                         sentences).                      405(f
)(1) (2d-last sentences), (2), 72
                                                                          Stat.
 761.
41908(b)..............................  49 App.:1375(f)(1) (last
                                         sentence).
41908(c)..............................  49 App.:1375(f)(2).
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    In this section, the words ``government of a foreign country or 
foreign postal administration'' is substituted for ``foreign country'' 
for clarity and consistency in the revised title.
    In subsection (a), the text of 49 App.:1375(f)(1) (3d sentence) is 
omitted as obsolete and superseded by 39:5402. The word ``prices'' is 
substituted for ``rates of compensation'' for consistency in this part. 
The words ``from time to time'' are omitted as surplus.
    In subsection (c)(1), the words ``When . . . transports mail of a 
foreign country . . . (A) under an arrangement with a government of a 
foreign country or foreign postal administration made or approved under 
this section . . . (B) without having an arrangement with a government 
of a foreign country or foreign postal administration consistent with 
this section'' are substituted for ``In any case where . . . has an 
arrangement with any foreign country for transporting its mails, made or 
approved in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) of this 
subsection . . . and in case of the absence of any arrangement between 
the air carrier and the foreign country consistent with this 
subsection'' for clarity and to eliminate unnecessary words. The words 
``for the transportation'' are added for clarity.
