Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 9 — Foreign Wars, War Materials, and Neutrality
§ 406. Interference with foreign trade
Statutory text
Except in those cases in which the exportation of arms and munitions of war or other articles is forbidden by proclamation or otherwise by the President, as provided in section 401 of this title, nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to, or interfere with any trade in such commodities, conducted with any foreign port or place wheresoever, or with any other trade which might have been lawfully carried on before , under the law of nations, or under the treaties or conventions entered into by the United States, or under the laws thereof.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 65–30 · 40 Stat. 217
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 406
(June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VI, § 6, 40 Stat. 225.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VI, § 6, 40 Stat. 225.)
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
Herein, referred to in text, means act June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VI, 40 Stat. 223, which enacted sections 31 to 39, 98, 130 to 133, 288, 343 to 346, 381, 502, 535, 536, 574, and 611 to 633 of former Title 18, Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure, sections 213, 231 to 233, 235, 401 to 408a, 462, and 465 of this title, and sections 30 to 42, former section 191, former sections 192 to 194, and section 195 of Title 50, War and National Defense, and amended sections 25, 27, and 349 of former Title 18. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Credits
(June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VI, § 6, 40 Stat. 225.)