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TITLE III — IMPORTATION A N D EXPORTATION; AMENDMENTS AND REPEALS OF REVENUE LAWS SHORT

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SEC. 1000. This title may be cited as the "Controlled Substances Import and Export Act"'.

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PART A—IMPORTATION AND EXPORTATION DEFINITIONS

SEC. 1001. (a) For purposes of this part— (1) The term "import" means, with respect to any article, any bringing in or introduction of such article into any area (whether or not such bringing in or introduction constitutes an importation within the meaning of the tariff laws of the United States). (2) The term "customs territory of the United States" has the meaning assigned to such term by general headnote 2 to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202). 77A Stat. ii. (b) Each term defined in section 102 of title II shall have the same Ante, p. 1242. meaning for purposes of this title as such term has for purposes of title II. IMPORTATION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES

SEC. 1002. (a) I t shall be unlawful to import into the customs territory of the United States from any place outside thereof (but within the United States), or to import into the United States from an}^ place outside thereof, any controlled substance in schedule I or II of title II, or any narcotic drug in schedule III, IV, or V of title II, except that— (1) such amounts of crude opium and coca leaves as the Attorney General finds to be necessary to provide for medical, scientific, or other legitimate purposes, and (2) such amounts of any controlled substance in schedule I or II or any narcotic drug in schedule III, IV, or V that the Attorney General finds to be necessary to provide for the medical, scientific, or other legitimate needs of the United States— (A) during an emergency in which domestic supplies of such substance or drug are found by the Attorney General to be inadequate, or (B) in any case in which the Attorney General finds that competition among domestic manufacturers of the controlled substance is inadequate and will not be rendered adequate by the registration of additional manufacturers under section 303, may be so imported under such regulations as the Attorney General shall prescribe. No crude opium may be so imported for the purpose of manufacturing heroin or smoking opium. (b) I t shall be unlawful to import into the customs territory of the United States from any place outside thereof (but within the United States), or to import into the United States from any place outside thereof, any nonnarcotic controlled substance in schedule III, IV, or V, unless such nonnarcotic controlled substance— (1) is imported for medical, scientific, or other legitimate uses, and

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