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PUBLIC LAW 243-AUG. 8, 1953

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S U P P L I E S AND EQUIPMENT FOR VESSELS AND AIRCRAFT

SEC. 11. (a) Subsections (a) and (b) of section 309 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (U.S.C. 1946 edition, title 19, sec. 1309 (a) 52 Stat. 1080,55 and (b)), relating to articles for certain vessels and aircraft, are furtat. 602. YiQY amended to read as follows: " (a) EXEMPTION FROM DUTIES AND TAXES.—Articles of foreign or domestic origin may be withdrawn, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, from any customs bonded warehouse, from continuous customs custody elsewhere than in a bonded warehouse, or from a foreign-trade zone free of duty and internalrevenue tax, or from any internal-revenue bonded warehouse, from any brewery, or from any winery premises or bonded premises for the storage of wine, free of internal-revenue tax— "(1) for supplies (not including equipment) of (A) vessels or aircraft operated by the United States, (B) vessels of the United States employed in the fisheries or in the whaling business, or actually engaged in foreign trade or trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States or between the United States and any of its possessions, or (C) aircraft registered in the United States and actually engaged in foreign trade or trade between the United States and any of its possessions; or "(2) for supplies (including equipment) or repair of (A) vessels of war of any foreign nation, or (B) foreign vessels employed in the fisheries or in the whaling business, or actually engaged in foreign trade or trade between the United States and any of its possessions, where such trade by foreign vessels is permitted; or "(3) for supplies (including equipment), ground equipment, maintenance, or repair of aircraft registered in any foreign country and actually engaged in foreign trade or trade between the United States and any of its possessions, where trade by foreign aircraft is permitted. With respect to articles for ground equipment, the exemption hereunder shall apply only to duties and to taxes imposed upon or by reason of importation. "(b) DRAWBACK.—Articles withdrawn from bonded warehouses, bonded manufacturing warehouses, continuous customs custody elsewhere than in a bonded warehouse, or from a foreign-trade zone, and articles of domestic manufacture or production, laden as supplies upon any such vessel or aircraft of the United States or laden as supplies (including equipment) upon, or used in the maintenance or repair of, any such foreign vessel or aircraft, shall be considered to be exported within the meaning of the drawback provisions of this Act." (b) Section 317(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (U.S.C. 52 Stat. 1081. 1946 edition, title 19, sec. 1317 (b)), is amended to read as follows: " (b) The shipment or delivery of any merchandise for use as supplies (including equipment) upon, or in the maintenance or repair of any vessel or aircraft described in subdivision (2) or (3) of section Supra. 309 (a) of this Act, or for use as ground equipment for any such aircraft, shall be deemed an exportation within the meaning of the customs and internal-revenue laws applicable to the exportation of such merchandise without the payment of duty or internal-revenue tax. With respect to merchandise for use as ground equipment, such shipment or delivery shall not be deemed an exportation within the meaning of the internal-revenue laws relating to taxes other than those imposed upon or by reason of importation."

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