19 USC § 2076 - Advances in foreign countries

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title: "19 USC § 2076 - Advances in foreign countries"
title_number: 19
title_name: "CUSTOMS DUTIES"
section_number: "2076"
section_name: "Advances in foreign countries"
chapter_number: 10
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source_credit: "(Mar. 28, 1938, ch. 55, 52 Stat. 126.)"
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# 2 Advances in foreign countries

See References in Text note below.

See Change of Name note below.

31 U.S.C. 529b[^1][^2]

Section 3648 of the Revised Statutes ()  shall not apply to payments made for the Bureau of Customs  in foreign countries.

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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 28, 1938, ch. 55, 52 Stat. 126.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in text, was classified to section 529 (not 529b) of former Title 31, Money and Finance, and subsequently repealed and restated as section 3324(a), (b) of Title 31 by , §§ 1, 5(b), , , 1068.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to  prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by , , .

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the United States Customs Service of the Department of the Treasury, including functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 203(1), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under . For establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security, treated as if included in  as of , see , as amended generally by , and , set out as a note under .

### Similar Provisions

Section is from Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1939. Similar provisions were contained in the following appropriation acts:

, title I, § 1, .

, title I, .

, .

, .

## Executive Documents

### Change of Name

The Bureau of Customs was redesignated the United States Customs Service by Treasury Department Order 165–23, , eff. , 38 F.R. 13037. See, also, , Money and Finance.

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Treasury, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Treasury, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 26 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 4935, , 1281, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.