An Act for implementing Conventions for Free Admission of Professional Equipment and Containers, and for ATA, ECS, and TIR Carnets
PL 90-635 (H.R.18373), enacted 10/24/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-635-OCT. 24, 1968 
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(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with 
respect to obligations issued after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
Approved October 24, 1968. 
Public Law 90-635 
A N A C T 
October 24, 1968 
For implementing Conventions for Free Admission of Professional Eciuipment 
[H.R. 18373] 
and Containers, and for ATA, ECS, and TIR Carnets. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and IIouHe of Re 
preventatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhJsd^ That part 5 of 
schedule 2 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.(\ of proiessio: 
1202) is amended by insertinjr after item 270.10 the followina; new equipment, <. 
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tainers, and 
Tariffs. 
Free admission 
professional 
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item: 
270.15 
78 Stat. 231. 
International customs forms (carnets), and parts thereof,, in 1 
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English or French (whether or not in additional languages) 
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SEC. 2. (a) The article description for item 864.50 of the Tariff 
Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) is amended to read 
77A stat. 424. 
as follows: "Professional equipment, tools of trade, repair components 
for equipment or tools admitted under this item, and camping equip-
ment ; all the foregoing imported by or for nonresidents sojourning 
temporarily in the United States and for the use of such non-
residents". 
(b) Headnote 1 for subpart C of part 5 of schedule 8 of such 
Schedules is amended— 
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(1) by inserting "(a)'* after "1.''; 
(2) by inserting "(1)*" after "except that" in the first sentence, 
and by inserting before the period at the end of such sentence 
tlie following: ", and (2) in the case of professional equipment 
and tools of trade admitted into the United States under item 
864.50 which have been .seized (other than by seizure made at 
the suit of private j^ersons), the requirement of reexportation 
shall be suspended for the duration of the seizure"; and 
(3) by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"(b) For articles admitted into the United States under item 864.50, 
entry shall be made by the nonresident importing the articles or by 
an organization represented by the nonresident which is established 
under the laws of a foreign country or ha.s its principal place of 
business in a foreign country." 
SEC. 3. (a) The article description for item 808.00 of the Tariff 
Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) is amended by insert-
ing before the period at the end thereof the following: ", and repair 
components for a particular container of foreign production which 
is an instrument of international traffic". 
(b) Headnote 1 of subpart C of part 1 of schedule 8 of such Sched-
ules is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the 
following: ", and also covers certain repair components". 
SEC. 4. Each of the preceding sections of this Act shall apply with 
respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for con-
sumption on and after a date which shall be proclaimed by the Presi-
dent, which date shall be consonant with the entering into force for 
the United States of the customs convention or conventions which 
such section implements. 
Approved October 24, 1968. 
77A Stat. 409. 
Effective date. 
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