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 102 STAT. 1570

Records.

PUBLIC LAW 100-418—AUG. 23, 1988

shall be published in the Official Gazette of the Patent and Trademark Office. If the extension of the term of the patent is to be terminated under section 9201(b), the Commissioner shall promptly issue a certificate of termination of extension, under seal, stating the fact that the patent term extension is terminated, effective on the date of the Anal determination that the supplemental new drug application under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was disapproved. Such certificate shall be recorded in the offici£d file of the patent and such certificate shall be considered as a part of the original patent, and an appropriate notice shall be published in the Official Gazette of the Patent and Trademark Office.

TITLE X—OCEAN AND AIR TRANSPORTATION Subtitle A—Foreign Shipping Practices

Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988. Maritime affairs. 46 USC app. 1701 note.

SEC. 10001. SHORT TITLE.

46 USC app. 1710a.

SEC. 10002. FOREIGN LAWS AND PRACTICES.

This subtitle may be cited as the "Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988". (a) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— (1) "common carrier", "marine terminal operator", "nonvessel-operating common carrier", "ocean common carrier", "person', "shipper", "shippers' association", and "United States" have the meanings given each such term, respectively, in section 3 of the Shipping Act of 1984 (46 App. U.S.C. 1702); (2) "foreign carrier" means an ocean common carrier a majority of whose vessels are documented under the laws of a country other than the United States; (3) "maritime services" means port-to-port carriage of cargo by the vessels operated by ocean common carriers; (4) "maritime-related services" means intermodal operations, terminal operations, cargo solicitation, forwarding and agency services, non-vessel-operating common carrier operations, and all other activities and services integral to total transportation systems of ocean common carriers and their foreign domiciled affiliates on their own and others' behalf; (5) "United States carrier" means an ocean common carrier which operates vessels documented under the laws of the United States; and (6) "United States oceanborne trade" means the carriage of cargo between the United States and a foreign country, whether direct or indirect, by an ocean common carrier. (b) AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS.—The Federal Maritime Commission shall investigate whether any laws, rules, regulations, policies, or practices of foreign governments, or any practices of foreign carriers or other persons providing maritime or maritimerelated services in a foreign country result in the existence of conditions that— (1) adversely affect the operations of United States carriers in United States oceanborne trade; and

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