Volume 75
Public Law 87–95
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for the free entry of electron microscopes and certain other apparatus imported by, or on behalf of, certain institutions.
Approved July 20, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for the free entry of electron microscopes and certain other apparatus imported by, or on behalf of, certain institutions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 201 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C., sec. 1201), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:
“Par. 1825.
Apparatus utilizing any radioactive substance in medical diagnosis or therapeutic treatment, including the radioactive material itself when contained in the apparatus as an integral element of the apparatus, and electron microscopes, and parts or accessories of any of the foregoing, imported for its own use and not for sale by, or on behalf of, any nonprofit society, institution, or organization, whether public or private, incorporated or established for educational, scientific, or therapeutic purposes.”
Sec. 2.
The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of enactment of this Act and to articles covered by entries or withdrawals which have not been liquidated, or the liquidation of which has not become final, on such date of enactment.
Approved July 20, 1961.