Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 42 Part 1.djvu/987

 SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 356. 1922. 959 section 482 of this Act, the invoice shall have attached thereto the °“°’°?,.‘,*§,,’§ °“·" original bills or invoices received by the shipper, or extracts therefrom, showing the actual prices paid or to be paid for such merchandise. The consular officer to whom the invoice is so produced for certifi— °°°’“‘°'°°'°*°°°“°¤~ cation mag require that any such original bill or invoice be certified by the cons ar officer for the district in which the merchandise was purchased. Cmmdmvd Sec. 482. DECLARATIONS Accoursnrme cnnrmmn IN`VOICES.— (a) cmuixwmgiicu Every invoice covering merchandise exceeding $100 in value shall, *’°‘°’°‘“P¤°¤*· at or before the time 0 the shi ment of the merchandise, or as soon thereafter as the conditions permit, be produced for certification to the consular omcer of the United States- (1) For the consular district in which the merchandise was manu-  _"h°°° P"' factured, or purchased, or from which it was to be delivered pursuant to contract; (2) For the consider district in which the merchandise is assem— ,mm’§’“°mbl°° ‘°' bled and repacked for shipment to the United States, if it has been purchased in different consular districts. _ _ (b) Such invoices shall have indorsed thereon, when so produced, t,,`Q'$§°,,,,,§,l,{°f°“'“t‘°“‘ a. verified declaration, in a form prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasmy, stating whether the merchandise is sold or agreed to be sold, or whether it is shipped otherwise than in pursuance of a Hltrrchase or an agreement to purchase, that there is no other invoice ` ering from the invoice so produced, and that all the statements contained in such invoice and in such declaration are true and correct. (c) Every certified invoice shall be made out in tri licate or in T"P°°°“,,g¤;,,“,,qgt;“‘}“" Puaglruplicate, if desired by the shiriper, for merchandise intended Imam, or immediate transpgrtation, imder e provisions of section 552 of this Act, and shall signed by the seller or shipper, or the ent of either. Where any such invoice is signed by an agent, hea§1all state thereon the name of his princi al. (d) Such invoices shall be certifiedp in accordance with the provisions mm emrurying. of existing law. (e) The original of the invoice shall be filed in the office of the con- D*¤r»¤¤¤¤¤°¥· sular officer by whom it was certified, to be there kept until the Secretarv of State authorizes its destruction. The duphcate and, if made, the quadruplicate shall be delivered to the exporter to be forwarded to the consignee for use in making entry of the merchandise and the triplicate shall be promptly transmitted by the consular officer to the collector of customs at the port of entry named in the mvoice. (f) When merchandise is to be shipped from a ptlace so_ remote ’,‘§_ '°‘“°‘° from an American consulate as to render impractica le certification of the invoice by an American consular officer, such invoice_may be certified b a consular officer of a nation at the time in am1ty_ with the United, States, or if there be no such consular officer available such invoice shall be executed before a notary public or other officer haw authority to administer oaths and aving an official seal: Pr ed, That invoices for merchandise shipped to the United States from the Philippine Islands or any of its other possessions may be iertgiedi by the collector of customs or the person acting as such, or y s e ut. . Sec. 48%. gWNERSE[P ron ENTBY.——·All merchandise  into .,.g{°§?$§0,°E?m°° the United States shall, for the 1u·poses of this title, be eld to be thedpropcrty of the erson to wlibm the same is consigned; and the Home mm mmhol er of a bill of Fading duly indorsed by the consaignee therein mg' named, or, if consigned to order, by the consignor, sh be deemed the consignee thereof. The underwriters of abandoned merchandise Ummm-