An Act to consolidate and revise foreign assistance legislation relating to reimbursable military exports
PL 90-629 (H.R.15681), enacted 10/22/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-628-OCT. 22, 1968 
[82 STAT. 
October 22, 1968 
[H.R. 13058] 
Public Law 90-628 
AN ACT 
To rei)eal certain Acts relating to containers for fruits and vegetables, and 
for other purposes. 
Fruit and vege-
table containers. 
Standards. 
Effective date. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Acts of 
Congress listed below are hereby repealed: 
(a) The Act of August 31, 1916, entitled "An Act to Hx standards 
for Climax baskets for grajjes and other fruits and vegetables, and to 
fix standards for baskets and other containers for small fruits, berries, 
and vegetables, and for other purposes'' (39 Stat. 673, as amended; 
15 U.S.C. 251-256); 
(b) The Act of May 21, 1928, entitled "An Act to fix standards for 
hampers, round stave baskets, and splint baskets for fruits and vege-
tables, and for other purposes" (45 Stat. 685, as amended; 15 U.S.C. 
257-257i). 
SEC. 2. Section 10(b) (3) of the Act of November 3, 1966 (80 Stat. 
1296; 15 U.S.C. 1451), entitled the "Fair Packaging and Labeling 
Act", is amended by inserting "or" before "the Act of March 4,1915," 
and by striking out ", the Act of August 31, 1916 (39 Stat. 673, as 
amended; 15 U.S.C. 251-256), or the Act of May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 
685, as amended; 15 U.S.C. 257-2571)." 
SEC. 3. This Act shall become effective 60 days after enactment. 
Approved October 22, 1968. 
October 22, 1968 
[H. R. 15681] 
The Foreign 
Military Sales 
Act. 
Public Law 90-629 
AN ACT 
To consolidate and revise foreign assistance legislation relating to reimbursable 
military exports. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congres,^ assembled^ That this Act may be 
cited as "The Foreign Military Sales Act". 
Chapter L—FOREIGN AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY 
OBJECTIVES AND RESTRAINTS 
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SECTION 1. T H E NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE COOPERATION 
AND MILITARY EXPORT CONTROLS.—As declared by the Congress in the 
Arms Control and Disarmament Act, an ultimate goal of the United 
States continues to be a world which is free from the scourge of war 
and the dangers and burdens of armaments; in which the use of force 
has been subordinated to the rule of law; and in which international 
adjustments to a changing world are achieved peacefully. In further-
ance of that goal, it remains the policy of the United States to encour-
age regional arms control and disarmament agreements and to 
discourage arms races. 
The Congress recognizes, however, that the United States and other 
free and independent countries continue to have valid requirements for 
effective and mutually beneficial defense relationships in order to main-
tain and foster the environment of international peace and security 
essential to social, economic, and political progress. Because of the 
growing cost and complexity of defense equipment, it is increasingly 
difficult and uneconomic for any country, particularly a developing 
country, to fill all of its legitimate defense requirements from its own 
d e s i ^ and production base. The need for international defense coop-
eration among the United States and those friendly countries to which 
it is allied by mutual defense treaties is especially important, since the 
effectiveness of their armed forces to act in concert to deter or defeat 
aggression is directly related to the operational compatibility of their 
defense ec[uipment. 
Accordingly, it remains the policy of the United States to facilitate 
the common defense by entering into international arrangements with 
friendly countries which further the objective of applying agreed 
resources of each country to programs and projects of coopera^tive 
exchange of data, research, development, production, procurement, and 
logistics support to achieve specific national defense requirements and 
objectives of mutual concern. To this end, this Act authorizes sales by 
the L'nited States Government to friendly countries having sufficient 
wealth to maintain and equip their own military forces at adequate 
strength, or to assume progressively larger shares of the costs thereof, 
without undue burden to their economies, in accordance with the 
restraints and control measures specified herein and in furtherance of 
the security objectives of the United States and of the purposes and 
principles of the United Nations Charter. 
It is the sense of the Congress that all such sales be approved only 
when they are consistent with the foreign policy interests of the United 
States, the purposes of the foreign assistance program of the United 
States as embodied in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 
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the extent and character of the military requirement, and the economic note. 
and financial capability of the recipient country, with particular 
regard being given, where appropriate, to proper balance among such 
sales, grant military assistance, and economic assistance as well as to 
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Presidential 
determination, 
report. 
Report. 
Presidential 
waiver, report. 
the impact of the sales on programs of social and economic development 
and on existing or incipient arms races. 
It is further the .sense of Congress that sales and guaranties under 
sections 21, 22, 23, and 24, shall not be approved where they would 
have the effect of arming military dictators who are denying social 
progress to their own people: Provided, That the President may waive 
this limitation when he determines it would be important to the security 
of the United States, and promptly so reports to the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations in 
the Senate. 
SEC. 2. COORDINATION W I T H FOREIGN POLICY.—(a) Nothing con-
tained in this Act shall be construed to infringe upon the powers or 
functions of the Secretary of State. 
(b) Under the direction of the Presidentj the Secretary of State, 
taking into account other United States activities abroad, such as mili-
tary assistance, economic assistance, and food for freedom, shall be 
responsible for the continuous supervision and general direction of 
sales under this Act, including, but not limited to, determining whether 
there shall be a sale to a country and the amount thereof, to the end 
that sales are integrated with other United States activities and the 
foreign policy of the United States is best served thereby. 
(c) The President shall prescribe appropriate procedures to assure 
coordination among representatives of the United States Government 
in each country, under the leadership of the Chief of the United States 
Diplomatic Mission. The Chief of the diplomatic mission shall make 
sure that recommendations of such representatives pertaining to sales 
are coordinated with political and economic considerations, and his 
comments shall accompany such recommendations if he so desires. 
SEC. 8. ELIGIBILITY,— (a) No defense article or defense service shall 
be sold by the United States Government under this Act to any country 
or international organization unless— 
(1) the President finds that the furnishing of defense articles 
and defense services to such country or international organization 
will strengthen the security of the United States and promote 
world peace; 
(2) the country or international organization shall have agreed 
not to transfer title to, or possession of, any defense article so 
furnished to it to anyone not an officer, employee, or agent of 
that country or international organization unless the consent of 
the President has first been obtained; and 
(3) the country or international organization is otherwise eli-
gible to purchase defense articles or defense services. 
The President shall j>romptly submit a rej)ort to the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives and to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
of the Senate on the implementation of each agreement entered into 
pursuant to clause (2) of this subsection. 
(b) No defense article or defense service shall be sold by the United 
States Government under this Act to any country which, after the 
date of enactment of this Act, seizes or takes into custody or fines an 
American fishing vessel engaged in fishing more than twelve miles 
from the coast of that country. The President may waive the provi-
sions of this subsection when he determines it to be important to the 
security of the United States, and promptly so reports to the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate. 
SEC. 4. PURPOSES FOR W H I C H MILITARY SALES BY THE UNITED STATES 
ARE AUTHORIZED.—Defense articles and defense services shall be sold 
by the United States Government under this Act to friendly countries 
solely for internal security, for legitimate self-defense, to permit the 
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recipient country to participate in regional or collective arrangements 
or measures consistent with the Charter of the United Nations, or 
otherwise to permit the recipient country to participate in collective 
measures requested by the United Nations for the purpose of main-
taining or restoring international peace and security, or for the pur-
pose of enabling foreign military forces in less developed friendly 
countries to construct public works and to engage in other activities 
helpful to the economic and social development of such friendly coun-
tries. It is the sense of the Congress that such foreign military forces 
should not be maintained or established solely for civic action activities 
and that such civic action activities not significantly detract from the 
capability of the military forces to perform their military missions and 
be coordmated with and form part of the total economic and social 
development effort: Provided^ That none of the funds contained in 
this authorization shall be used to guarantee, or extend credit, or par-
ticipate in an extension of credit in connection with any sale of sophis-
ticated weapons systems, such as missile systems and jet aircraft for 
military purposes, to any underdeveloped country other than Greece, 
Turkey, Iran, Israel, the Republic of China, the Philippines and 
Korea unless the President determines that such financing is important 
to the national security of the United States and reports within thirty 
Repo'* to 
days each such determination to the Congress. 
Congress. 
Chapter 2.—FOREIGN MILITARY SALES AUTHORIZATIONS 
SEC. 21. CASH SALES FROM STOCK.—The President may sell defense 
articles from the stocks of the Department of Defense and defense 
services of the Department of Defense to any friendly country or inter-
national organization if such country or international organization 
agrees to pay not less than the value thereof in United States dollars. 
Payment shall be made in advance or, as determined by the President 
to be in the best interests of the United States, within a reasonable 
I)eriod not to exceed one hundred and twenty days after the delivery 
of the defense articles or the rendering of the defense services. 
SEC. 22. PROCtiREMENx FOR CASH SALEK.—The President may, with-
out requirement for charge to any appropriation or contract authori-
zation otherwise provided, enter into contracts for the procurement of 
defense articles or defense services for sale for United States dollars to 
any friendly country or international organization if such country or 
international organization provides \h^ United States Government 
with a dependable undertaking (1) to pay the full amount of such-
contract A\'hich will assure the United States Government against any 
loss on the contract, and (2) to make funds a,vailable in such amounts 
and at such times as may be required to meet the payments required 
by the contract, and any damages and costs that may accrue from the 
cancellation of such contract, in advance of the time such payments, 
damages, or costs are due: Provided, That the President may, when he 
determines it to be in the national interest, accept a dependable under-
taking to make full payment within one hundred and twenty days after 
delivery of the defense articles, or the rendering of the defense services, 
and appropriations available to the Department of Defense may be 
used to meet the payments required by the contracts and shall be reim-
bursed by the amounts subsequently received from the country or inter-
national organization: Provided 
further. 
That the President may, 
when he determines it to be in the national interest, enter into sales 
agreements with purchasing countries or international organizations 
which fix prices to be paid by the purchasing countries or international 
organizations for the defense articles or defense services ordered. Funds 
made available under section 31 for financing sales shall be used to 
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reimburse the applicable appropriations in the amounts required by the 
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Report to 
Congress. 
Waiver. 
contracts which exceed the price so fixed, except that such reimburse-
ment shall not be required upon determination by the President that 
the continued production of the defense article being sold is advan-
taj^eous to the Armed Forces of the United States. Payments by pur-
chasing countries or international organizations which exceed the 
amounts required by such contracts shall be transferred to the general 
fund of the Treasury. To the maximum extent possible, prices fixed 
under any such sales agreement shall be sufficient to reimburse the 
United States for the cost of the defense articles or defense services 
ordered. The President shall submit to the Congress promptly a 
detailed report concerning any fixed-price sales agreement under which 
the aggregate cost to the United States exceeds the aggregate amount 
required to be paid by the purchasing country or international orga-
nization. No sales of unclassified defense articles shall be made to the 
government of any economically developed nation under the provisions 
of this section unless such articles are not generally available for pur-
chase by such nations from commercial sources in the United States: 
Provided^ however. That the President may waive the provisions of 
this sentence when he determines that the waiver of such provisions is 
in the national interest. 
SEC. 23. CREDIT SALES.—The President is hereby authorized to finance 
procurements of defense articles and defense services by friendly 
countries and international organizations on terms of repayment to 
the United States Government of not less than the value thereof in 
United States dollars within a period not to exceed ten years after 
the delivery of the defense articles or the rendering of the defense 
services. 
SEC. 24. GUARANTIES.—(a) The President may guarantee any indi-
vidual, corporation, partnership, or other juridical entity doing busi-
ness in the United States (excluding United States Government 
agencies) against political and credit risks of nonpayment arising out 
of their financing of credit sales of defense articles and defense serv-
ices to friendly countries and international organizations. Fees shall be 
charged for such guaranties. 
(b) The Presic^nt may sell to any individual, corporation, partner-
ship, or other juridical entity (excluding United States Government 
agencies) promissory notes issued by friendly countries and inter-
national organizations as evidence of their obligations to make repay-
ments to the United States on account of credit sales financed under 
section 23, and may guarantee payment thereof. 
(c) Funds made available pursuant to section 31 shall be obligated 
in an amount equal to 25 per centum of the contractual liability related 
to any guaranty issued under this section, and all the funds so obli-
gated shall constitute a single reserve for the payment of claims under 
such guaranties. Any funds so obligated which are deobligated from 
time to time during any current fiscal year as being in excess of the 
amount necessary to maintain a fractional reserve of 25 per centum 
of the contractual liability under outstanding guaranties shall be 
transferred to the general fund of the Treasury. Any ^aranties issued 
hereunder shall be backed by the full faith and credit of the United 
States. 
Chapter 3.—MILITARY EXPORT CONTROLS 
SEC. 31. AUTHORIZATION AND AGGREGATE CEILING ON FOREIGN MILI-
TARY SALES CREDITS.—(a) There is hereby authorized to be appropri-
ated to the President to carry out this Act not to exceed $296,000,000 
for the fiscal year 1969. Unoibligated balances of funds made available 
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pursuant to this section are hereby authorized to be continued avail-
able by appropriations legislation to carry out this Act. 
(b) The aggregate total of credits^ or participations in credits, 
extended pursuant to this Act (excluding credits covered by guaran-
ties issued pursuant to section 24(b)) and of the face amount of 
guaranties issued pursuant to sections 24 (a) and (b) during the fiscal 
year 1969 shall not exceed $296,000,000. 
SEC. 32. PROHIBITION AGAINST CERTAIN MILITARY EXPORT FINANC-
ING B
Y EXPORT-IMPORT BANK.—Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, no funds or borrowing authority available to the Export-
Import Bank of the United States shall be used by such Bank to 
participate in any extension of credit in connection with any agree-
ment to sell defense articles and defense services entered into with 
any economically less developed country after June 30,1968. 
SEC. 33. REGIONAL CEILINGS ON FOREIGN MILITARY SALES.— (a) 
The 
aggregate of the total amount of military assistance pursuant to the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, of cash sales pursuant to 
sections 21 and 22, of credits, or participations in credits, financed pur-
suant to section 23 (excluding credits covered by guaranties issued pur-
suant to section 24(b)), of the face amount of contracts of guaranty 
issued pursuant to sections 24 (a) and (b), and of loans and sales in 
accordance with section 7307 of title 10, United States Code, shall, 
excluding training, not exceed $75,000,000 in the fiscal year 1969 for 
Laitin American countries. 
(b) The aggregate of the total amount of military assistance pur-
suant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, of cash sales 
pursuant to sectionjs 21 and 22, of credits, or participations in credits, 
financed pursuant to section 23 (excluding credits covered by guar-
anties issued pursuant to section 24(b)), and of the face amount of 
contracts of guaranty issued pursuant to sections 24 (a) and (b) shall, 
excluding training, not exceed $40,000,000 in the fiscal year 1969 for 
African countries. 
(c) The President may waive the limitations of this section when 
he determines it to be important to the security of the United States, 
and promptly so reports to the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. 
SEC. 34. FOREIGN MILITARY SALES CREDIT STANDARDS.—The President 
shall establish standards and criteria for credit and guaranty trans-
actions under sections 23 and 24 in accordance with the foreign, 
national security, and financial policies of the United States. 
SEC. 35. FOREIGN MILITARY SALES TO LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES.— 
(a) When the President finds that any economically less developed 
country is diverting development assistance furnished pursuant to 
(he Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, or sales under the 
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as 
amended, to military expenditures, or is diverting its own resources to 
unnecessary military expenditures, to a degree which materially inter-
feres with its development, such country shall be immediately ineligi- "°** 
ble for further sales and guarantees under sections 21^ 22, 23, and 24, 
until the President is assured that such diversion will no longer take 
place, (b) The President shall transmit to the Speaker of the House 
of Representatives and to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate semianimal reports of sales, and guaranties, to economically 
less developed countries, under sections 21,22, 23, and 24, disclosing in 
detail the countries extended sales guaranties and credits and the 
terms and conditions of such sales, guaranties and credits; concur-
rently the President sliall transmit semiannual reports of forecasts 
of sales and of guaranty and credit applications and anticipated 
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70A Stat. 452. 
Report. 
68 Stat. 454; 
80 Stat. 1526. 
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Report. 
Report. 
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guaranty and credit extensions to economically less developed countries 
for the current fiscal year. 
SEC. 36. REPORTS ON COMMERCIAL AND GOVERNMENTAL. MILITARY 
EXPORTS.—(a) The Secretary of State shall transmit to the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate semiannual reports of all exports during the pre-
ceding six months of significant defense articles on the United States 
munitions list to any foreign government, international organization, 
or other foreign recipient or purchaser, by the United States under this 
Act or any other authority, or by any individual, corporation, partner-
ship, or other association doing business in the United States. Such 
reports shall include, but not be limited to, full information as to the 
particular defense articles so exported, the particular recipient or 
purchaser, the terms of the export, including its selling price, if any, 
and such other information as may be appropriate to enable the Con-
gress to evaluate the distribution of United States defense articles 
abroad. In preparing such reports the Secretary of State is authorized 
to utilize the latest statistics and information available in the various 
departments and agencies of the Government. 
(b) There shall be included in tha presentation material submitted 
to the Congress during its consideration of amendments to this Act, 
or of any Act appropriating funds pursuant to authorizations con-
tained in this Act, annual tables disclosing the dollar value of cash and 
credit foreign military sales orders, commitments to order, and esti-
mated future orders under this Act and estimates of commercial sales 
orden? and commitments to order received directly from any country 
or international organization by any individual, corporation, part-
nership, or other association doing business in the United States. The 
data reported shall be set forth on a country-by-country basis and shall 
be summarized on an economically developed country-economically 
less developed country basis. 
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as modifying in any 
way the provisions of section 414 of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, 
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as amended, relating to munitions control. 
SEC. 37. FISCAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO FOREIGN MILITARY SALES 
CREDITS.— (a) Cash payments received under sections 21 and 22 and 
advances received under section 23 shall be available solely for pay-
ments to suppliers (including the military departments) and refunds 
to purchasers and shall not be available for financing credits and 
guaranties. 
(b) Amounts received from foreign governments and international 
organizations as repayments for credits extended pursuant to section 
23, amounts received from the disposition of instruments evidencing 
indebtedness, and other collections (including fees and interest) shall 
be transferred to the miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. 
Chapter 4.—GENERAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
SEC. 41. EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act shall take effect on July 1,1968. 
SEC. 42. GENERAL PROVISIONS.—(a) In carrying out this Act, special 
emphasis shall be placed on procurement in the United States, but con-
sideration shall also be given to coproduction or licensed production 
outside the United States of defense articles of United Stat^ origin 
when such production best serves the foreign policy, national security, 
and economy of the United States. In evaluating any sale proposed to 
be made pursuant to this Act, there shall be taken into consideration 
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(1) the extent to which the proposed sale damages or infringes upon 
licensing arrangements whereby United States entities have granted 
licenses for the manufacture of the defense articles selected by the 
purchasing country to entities located in friendly foreign countries, 
which licenses resuU in financial returns to the United States, and (2) 
the portion of the defense articles so manufactured which is of United 
States origin. 
(b) Funds made available under this Act may be used for procure-
ment outside the United States only if the President determines that 
such procurement will not result in adverse effects upon the economy 
of the United States or the industrial mobilization base, with special 
reference to any areas of labor surplus or to the net position of the 
United States in its balance of payments with the rest of the world, 
which outweigh the economic or other advantages to the United States 
of less costly procurement outside the United States. 
(c) (1) With respect to sales and guaranties under sections 21, 22, 
23, and 24, the Secretary of Defense shall, under the direction of the 
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President, have primary responsibility for— 
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(A) the determination of military end-item requirements j 
( B ) the procurement of military equipment in a manner which 
permits its integration with service programs; 
(C) the supervision of the training of foreign military 
personnel; 
(D^ the movement and delivery of military end-items; and 
(E) within the Department of Defense, the performance of 
any other functions with respect to sales and guaranties. 
(2) The establishment of priorities in the procurement, delivery, 
and allocation of military equipment shall, under the direction of the 
President, be determined by the Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 43. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Funds made available under 
other law for the operations of United States Grovernment agencies 
carrying out functions under this Act shall be available for the admin-
istrative expenses incurred by such agencies under this Act. 
SEC. 44. STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.—No provision of this Act shall 
be construed as modifying in any way the provisions of the Atomic 
Energy Act of 1954, as amended, or section 7307 of title 10 of the 
^s stat. 919^. 
United States Code. 
note. 
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SEC. 45. STATUTES REPEALED AND AMENDED.— (a) Sections 521, 522, 
7OA stat. 452. 
523, 524(b) (3), 525, 634(g), and 640 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961,asamended, are hereby repealed. 
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(b) Part I I I of the Foreign xVssistance Act of 1961, as amended, is ^390;^^^'*' 
amended as follows: 
(1) Section 622(b) is amended by striking out "or sales". 
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(2) Section 622(c) is amended by striking out "and sales" and 
"or sales". 
(3) Section 632(d) is amended by striking out "sections 506, 
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522, and 523," in the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof 
"section 506". 
(4) Section 634(d) is amended by inserting "or any other" 
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between "under this" and "Act" in the fourth sentence. 
(5) Section 644(m) is amended by striking out "and sales" in 
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the first sentence of the paragraph following numbered para-
graph (3). 
(c) References in law to the provisions of law repealed by subsec-
tion (a) of this section shall hereafter be deemed to be references to 
this Act or appropriate provisions of this Act. Except for the laws 
specified in section 44, no other provision of law shall be deemed to 
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apply to this Act unless it refers specifically to this Act or refers gen-
erally to sales of defense articles and defense services under any Act. 
SEC. 46. SAVING PROVISIONS.—Except as may be expressly provided 
to the contrary in this Act, all determinations, authorizations, regula-
tions, orders, contracts, agreements, and other actions issued, under-
taken, or entered into under authority of any provision of law repealed 
by section 45(a) .shall continue in full force and effect until modified 
by appropriate authority. 
Approved October 22, 1968. 
October 22, 1968 
[H.R. 11394] 
Taxes. 
Distilled spirits. 
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46 Stat. 694; 
49 Stat. I960. 
72 Stat. 1366. 
Public Law 90-630 
AN ACT 
To amend certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 relating to 
distilled spirits, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph (1) 
of section 5008(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to 
loss or destruction of distilled spirits) is amended— 
(1) by striking out "before the completion of the bottling and 
casing or other packaging of such spirits for removal from the 
bottling premises" and inserting in lieu thereof "before removal 
from the premises", and 
(2) by inserting after "such loss occurred" in subparagraph 
(B) the following: "(i) before the completion of the bottling 
and casing or other packaging of such spirits for removal from the 
bottling premises and (ii)'. 
SEC. 2. (a) The second sentence of section 5062(b) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to drawback in the case of exportation 
of distilled spirits) is amended to read as follows: "In the case of 
distilled spirits, the preceding sentence shall not apply unless the claim 
for drawback is filed by the bottler or packager of the spirits and unless 
such spirits have been stamped or restamped, and marked, especially 
for export, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary or his 
delegate." 
(b) The second paragraph of section 313(d) of the TarilT Act of 
amended— 
1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1313(d)) (relating to drawback) is 
(1) by inserting "or determined" after "been paid" each place 
it appears, 
(2) by striking out the colon and the proviso, and 
(3) by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: 
"In the case of distilled spirits, the preceding sentence shall not 
apply unless the claim for drawback is filed by the bottler or 
packager of the spirits and unless such spirits have been stamped 
or restamped, ana marked, especially for export, under regula-
tions prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with 
the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury." 
SEC. 3. (a) Section 5232 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 
(relating to imported distilled spirits) is amended to read as 
follows: 
"SEC. 5232. IMPORTED DISTILLED SPIRITS. 
"(a) 
TRANSFER TO DISTILLED SPIRITS PLANT WITHOUT PAYMENT OF 
TAX.—Imported distilled spirits in bulk containers may, under such 
regulations as the Secretary or his delegate shall prescribe, be with-
drawn from customs custody and transferred in such bulk containers 
or by pipeline to the bonded premises of a distilled spirits plant with-