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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "19 U.S.C. § 1588"
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description: "Transportation between American ports via foreign ports"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 19
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title_name: "CUSTOMS DUTIES"
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chapter_number: "4"
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chapter_name: "TARIFF ACT OF 1930"
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section: "1588"
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citation: "19 U.S.C. § 1588"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc19@119-100.zip"
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source_identifier: "/us/usc/t19/s1588"
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source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-19/usc19.xml"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
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confidence: "official"
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tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
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# 19 U.S.C. § 1588 - Transportation between American ports via foreign ports
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## Text
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If any merchandise is laden at any port or place in the United States upon any vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of a foreign country, and is taken thence to a foreign port or place to be reladen and reshipped to any other port in the United States, either by the same or by another vessel, foreign or American, with intent to evade the provisions relating to the transportation of merchandise from one port or place of the United States to another port or place of the United States in a vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of any foreign power, the merchandise shall, on its arrival at such last-named port or place, be seized and forfeited to the United States, and the vessel shall pay a tonnage duty of 50 cents per net ton.
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(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 588, 46 Stat. 749.)
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