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Sale.

Marking tions.

Di s p o s a 1 articles.

R e Imborsement for c u s to m charges.

52 Stat. 1087. 69 Stat. 242.

•Automobiles.

Penalty.

PUBLIC LAW 8 5 - 9 2 5 - S E P T. 2, 1958

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installing, or maintaining foreign exhibits at such exposition, upon which there is a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted, without payment of such tariff or customs duty or any fees or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. SEC. 2. It shall be lawful at any time during or within three months after the close of such exposition to sell within the area of the exposition any articles provided for herein, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. All such articles, when withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States, shall be subject to the duties, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of their withdrawal; and on such articles which shall have suffered diminution or deterioration from inci'dental handling or exposure, the duties, if payable, shall be assessed according to the appraised value at the time of withdrawal from entry hereunder for consumption or entry under the general tariff law. SEC. 3. Imported articles provided for herein shall not be subject to any marking requirements of the general tariff laws, except when such articles are withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States, in which case they shall not be released from customs custody until properly marked, but no additional duty shall be assessed because such articles were not sufficiently marked when imported into the United States. SEC. 4. At any time within three months after the close of the exposition, any article entered hereunder may be abandoned to the United States or destroyed under customs supervision, whereupon any duties on such article 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. S E C 6. The exposition 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 charges 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 exposition to the United States, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Receipts 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. 1524). SEC. 7. Paragraph 1798, Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (U.S.C. title 19, sec. 1201, par. 1798), is further amended by redesignating subparagraph (li) as subparagraph (i), and by inserting a new subparagraph (h) to read as follows: " (n) Automobiles rented by any resident of the United States while abroad may be imported into the Ignited States by or on behalf of such resident for the transportation of such resident, his family and guests, and such incidental carriage of articles as may be appropriate to his personal use of the automobile without payment of duty, for such temporary periods as the Secretary of the Treasury by regulation may prescribe. Any automobile exempted from duty under this

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