With reference to the amended United States Tariff Bill, the attention of exporters is drawn to the proposals of the Senate Finance Committee regarding the marking of an indication of the country of origin on goods imported into the United States, as given in Section 304 of the Bill. The text of this Section is given below. Its proso as to indicate clearly the coun- foregoing provisions. try of origin. Any such package (b) If any person shall fraudulheld in customs custody shal] not ently violate any of the provisions be delivered to the importer unless of this Act relating to the mark-so marked, stamped, branded, or ing, stamping, branding, or label-labelled, and until every package!ling of any imported articles or of the importation which shall have been released from customs cis-tody not so marked, stamped, branded, or labelled, shall be marked, stamped, branded, or labelled. in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
The Secretary of the Treasury packages, or shall fraudulently deface, destroy, remove, alter, or obliterate any such marks, stamps, brands, or labels with intent to conceal the information given by or contained in such marks, stamps, brands, or labels, he shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not exceeding $5,000, or be imvisions are practically the same as 1s} shall prescribe the necessary rules! prisoned for any time nat exceed-the "marking', Provisions DOW 1) and regulations to carry out tholing one year, or both. force with the important exception that it is now proposed to levy surtax of 10 per cent. of the ap praised value on all goods not properly marked at the time of importation Section 304. (a) Every article imported into the United States, which is capable of being marked, stamped, branded, or labelled, without injury, at the time of its manufacture or production, shall be marked, stamped, branded, or labelled, in legible English words, in a conspicuous place that shall not be covered or obscured by any subsequent attachments or arrangements, so as to indicate the country of origin. Said marking, stamping, branding, or labelling shall be as nearly indelible and permanent as the nature of the article will permit. Any such article held in cus-to the imported until 90 marked, toms custody shall not be delivered
stamped, branded or labelled, and portation which shall -have. until every such article of the imreleased from customs custody not so marked stamped, branded, or labelled, shall be marked, stamped, branded, or labelled, in accordance with such rules and' regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Provided, That there shall be collected upon every such article which at the time of im-
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