22 U.S.C. § 406 — Interference with foreign trade
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This law protects normal foreign trade from being blocked by the arms export ban. It doesn't apply to trade the President has banned by proclamation under section 401. It also protects trade that was already legal before June 15, 1917, under treaties or international law.
This section protects ordinary foreign trade from being blocked by the arms-export restrictions elsewhere in this chapter — except for trade the President has already banned by proclamation, or otherwise, under section 401.
Nothing in this chapter should be read to reach into, or interfere with, any trade in those same goods — arms and munitions of war, or other listed articles — carried on with any foreign port or place. This protection also covers any other trade that could lawfully have been carried on before June 15, 1917, whether under the law of nations, under a treaty or convention the United States entered into, or under U.S. law.
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 June 15, 1917, under the law of nations, or under the treaties or conventions entered into by the United States, or under the laws thereof.
Source credit: (June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VI, § 6, 40 Stat. 225.)
- 1917Enacted · Act of June 15, 1917, ch. 30 · 40 Stat. 225
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 30 on 1917-06-15.
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