An Act to permit the importation free of duty of racing shells to be used in connection with preparations for the 1956 Olympic Games.
PL 84-510 (H.R.8334), enacted 05/09/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 510-MAY 9, 1956 
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Transfers. 
Payment of cus-
toms charge s« etc> 
46 Stat. 741; 
Stat. 1087. 
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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 con-
tinuous 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 Treas-
ury shall prescribe. 
SEC. 6. The Theatre Equipment and Supply Manufacturers Asso-
ciation, 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 tlie 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. 
May 9,1956 
[H. R. 8334] 
Racing shells. 
66 Stat. 82. 
19 u s e 
1 0 0 1 , 
par. 412. 
46 Stat. 734. 
19 u s e 1514. 
Public Law 510 
CHAPTER 239 
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 hy 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 con-
sumption 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 com-
petition to determine repr^entatives of the United States in the 
1956 Olympic Games); and 
(2) with respect to which the person so entering or withdraw-
ing 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. In 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 enact-
ment 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.