Files
republic-os/legal/us/code/title-19/chapter-3/section-240.md
T
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
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>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

1.6 KiB

type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction corpus kind title_number title_name chapter_number chapter_name section citation status release_point release_date source source_url source_identifier source_file source_hash raw_snapshot_hash text_hash retrieved_at confidence tags
LegalText 19 U.S.C. § 240 Value at date of shipment us united_states_code code_section 19 CUSTOMS DUTIES 3 THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS 240 19 U.S.C. § 240 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc19@119-100.zip /us/usc/t19/s240 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-19/usc19.xml 51c0ab0cb1f52d4d2e6ee742bf46727e8b8e60100584cfa25af06ea3e9eb2d0c c90da65eeb9b6895d254e48af923eedc3b1275c7e88d986eb56f934bfcdfdf5c 90e85d70b6263a7f1507029dc7a3b20e18d32f00924dc50c829b5ba86927bf56 2026-07-04 official
legal
us-code

19 U.S.C. § 240 - Value at date of shipment

Text

When the duty upon any imports shall be subject to be levied upon the true market value of such imports in the principal markets of the country from whence the importation has been made, or at the port of exportation, the duty shall be estimated and collected upon the value on the day of actual shipment, whenever a bill of lading shall be presented showing the date of shipment, and which shall be certified by a certificate of the United States consul or legally authorized deputy.

(R.S. § 2904.)

Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification R.S. § 2904 derived from act Mar. 2, 1861, ch. 68, § 28, 12 Stat. 197.