Public Law 74–803

That all articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition or display at a permanent exhibition or exhibitions and/or at a temporary exhibition or exhibitions of the arts, sciences, and industries, and products of the soil, mine, and sea, to be held at any time and from time to time by the Port of New York Authority, a municipal corporate instrumentality organized pursuant to a compact entered into on April 30, 1921, between the States of New York and New Jersey and consented to by the Congress of the

Vol. 42. p. 174.

United States (ch. 77, U. S. Stat. L., vol. 42, pt. I, p. 174), and/or by its tenants or licensees in the building known as the Port Authority Commerce Building, located on the block bounded by Eighth and Ninth Avenues, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets, Borough of Manhattan, city and State of New York, upon which articles there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted free of such tariff, customs duty, fees, or charges under such regulations

Sales permitted subject to regulations.

as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful, at any time during or at the close of any exhibition held pursuant to this Act, to sell for delivery at the close thereof any goods or property imported for and actually displayed at such exhibition, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of the

Proviso.

Payment of duty.

Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That all such articles, when sold or withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of their withdrawal and to the requirements of the tariff laws in effect at such date: Provided further,

Port of New York Authority deemed sole consignee.

That the Port of New York Authority shall be deemed, for customs purposes only, to be the sole consignee of all merchandise imported under the provisions of this Act, and that all

Payment of expenses.

necessary governmental expenses incurred as a result of exhibitions authorized under this Act, including salaries of customs officials in charge of imported articles, shall be paid to the Treasury of the United States by the Port of New York Authority under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided further,

Unsold, etc., articles subject to duty at end of two years.

That all such articles shall, at the expiration of two year’s, be subject to the impost duty then in force, unless the same shall have been sold or exported from this country prior to that period of

Invitation to foreign governments to exhibit not implied.

time: And provided further, That, nothing in this Act contained shall be construed as an invitation, express or implied, from the Government of the United States to any foreign government, state, municipality, corporation, partnership, or individual to import any articles for the purpose of exhibition at the said exhibitions.