# § 1552. Entry for immediate transportation
Any merchandise, other than explosives and merchandise the importation of which is prohibited, arriving at a port of entry in the United States may be entered, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, for transportation in bond without appraisement to any other port of entry designated by the consignee, or his agent, and by such bonded carrier as he designates, there to be entered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
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**Source Credit**: (June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 552, 46 Stat. 742.)
## Editorial Notes
### Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in , . That section was superseded by section 552 of act , comprising this section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
Prior provisions for transportation in bond without appraisement of merchandise with certain exceptions, when imported at certain named ports and destined for certain ports, were contained in , §§ 1 (as amended by , and ) 2, 7, and 9, , 174, 175. Sections 5 (as amended by , and , and ) and 6 (as amended by ), regulated the transportation and transfer of the merchandise. The act of was amended by , , and its provisions were extended by various acts to ports other than those originally named. The , as amended, and the acts of , and , were all repealed by , , and the various acts extending the provisions of the act of , thereupon became inoperative.
R.S. §§ 2990–2997, as amended by , , and as extended by , , and , , contained provisions somewhat similar to those of the , and were repealed by section 8 of the 1880 act.
R.S. § 2581, relative to the transshipment of merchandise transported in bond to the port of Brownsville, by Brazos Harbor; R.S. §§ 2816–2831, as amended by , , 247, and , , relative to transportation of merchandise intended to be imported into certain ports of delivery; and R.S. § 2998, prescribing a penalty for breaking or entering any car, etc., containing merchandise transported under sections 2990–2997, or defacing any lock or seal, etc.—were all repealed by , .