Us Code § 3002 - Definitions
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§ 3002. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(1) The term "Commission" means the United States International Trade Commission.
(2) The term "Convention" means the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, done at Brussels on June 14, 1983, and the Protocol thereto, done at Brussels on June 24, 1986, submitted to the Congress on June 15, 1987.
(3) The term "entered" means entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, in the customs territory of the United States.
(4) The term "Federal agency" means any establishment in the executive branch of the United States Government.
(5) The term "old Schedules" means title I of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1202) as in effect on the day before the effective date of the amendment to such title under section 1204(a).
(6) The term "technical rectifications" means rectifications of an editorial character or minor technical or clerical changes which do not affect the substance or meaning of the text, such as—
(A) errors in spelling, numbering, or punctuation;
(B) errors in indentation;
(C) errors (including inadvertent omissions) in cross-references to headings or subheadings or notes; and
(D) other clerical or typographical errors.
(Pub. L. 100–418, title I, §1202, Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1147.)
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original "this subtitle", meaning subtitle B (§§1201 to 1217) of title I of Pub. L. 100–418, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this subtitle to the Code, see References in Text note set out under section 3001 of this title and Tables.
Title I of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1202) as in effect on the day before the effective date of the amendment to such title under section 1204(a), referred to in par. (5), is title I of act June 17, 1930, ch. 497, 46 Stat. 590, as in effect on the day before Jan. 1, 1989. Title I of the Tariff Act of 1930 which comprised the Tariff Schedules of the United States was not set out in the Code.
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