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Transfers.

Payment of customs charge s« etc>

46 Stat. 741; 52 Stat. 1087.

PUBLIC LAW 510-MAY 9, 1956

Racing s h e l l s. 66 Stat. 8 2. 19 USC 1 0 0 1, par. 412.

46 Stat. 734. 19 USC 1514.

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States or destroyed under customs supervision, whereupon any duties on such articles shall be remitted. SEC. 5. Articles which have been admitted without payment of duty for exhibition under any tariff law and which have remained in continuous customs custody or under a customs exhibition bond and imported articles in bonded warehouses under the general tariff law may be accorded the privilege of transfer to and entry for exhibition at such exposition, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. SEC. 6. The Theatre Equipment and Supply Manufacturers Association, Incorporated, a corporation, shall be deemed, for customs purposes only, to be the sole consignee of all merchandise imported under the provisions of this Act. The actual and necessary customs charges for labor, services, and other expenses in connection with the entry, examination, appraisement, release, or custody, together with the necessary charge for salaries of customs officers and employees in connection with the supervision, custody of, and accounting, for, articles imported under the provisions of this Act, shall be reimbursed by the Theatre Equipment and Supply Manufacturers Association, Incorporated, a corporation, to the United States, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Eeceipts from such reimbursements shall be deposited as refunds to the appropriation from which paid, in the manner provided for in section 524 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. sec. 1524). Approved May 9, 1956.

Public Law 510 May 9, 1956 [H. R. 8334]

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AN ACT To permit the importation, free of duty, of racing shells to be used in connection with preparations for the 1956 Olympic Games. Be it enacted by ths Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the duty imposed by paragraph 412 of section 1 of the Tariff Act of 1930 shall not apply with respect to any racing shell— (1) which is entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption after December 31, 1955, for the purpose of enabling any athletic team or association in the United States to prepare for competition in the 1956 Olympic Games (including any competition to determine repr^entatives of the United States in the 1956 Olympic Games); and (2) with respect to which the person so entering or withdrawing has filed with the collector of customs a statement under oath that such entry or withdrawal was for a purpose set forth in clause (1) of this section. SEC. 2. I n the case of any racing shell entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption after December 31, 1955, and before the date of the enactment of this Act, the first section of this Act shall apply, but only if the statement required by clause (2) of the first section of this Act is filed within one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. If the liquidation of the entry or withdrawal has become final under section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930, such entry or withdrawal may be reliquidated and the appropriate refund of duty may be made. Approved May 9, 1956.

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