(a)Disposition upon payment of duties and taxes
At any time before, or within 3 months after, the closing date of any fair, any article entered for such fair under section 1752 of this title may be sold or otherwise disposed of within, or may be removed from, the area of such fair. This subsection shall apply only if, before such disposition or removal— (1)the article, after the entry for such fair under section 1752 of this title, has been entered under any provision of the customs laws, and (2)any applicable duties and internal-revenue taxes are paid on such article in its condition and quantity, and at the rate in effect, at the time of such entry as if such article were imported or brought into the United States at the time of such entry.
(b)Disposition without payment of duties or
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(a) Disposition upon payment of duties and taxes
At any time before, or within 3 months after, the closing date of any fair, any article entered for such fair under section
1752 of this title may be sold or otherwise disposed of within, or may be removed from, the area of such fair. This subsection shall apply only if, before such disposition or removal—
(1) the article, after the entry for such fair under section
1752 of this title, has been entered under any provision of the customs laws, and
(2) any applicable duties and internal-revenue taxes are paid on such article in its condition and quantity, and at the rate in effect, at the time of such entry as if such article were imported or brought into the United States at the time of such entry.
(b) Disposition without payment of duties or taxes
At any time before, or within 3 months after, the closing date of any fair, any article entered for such fair under section
1752 of this title may, without the payment of any duties or internal-revenue taxes, be—
(1) exported,
(2) transferred from such fair to other customs custody status or to a foreign-trade zone,
(3) destroyed, or
(4) abandoned to the Government.
(c) Mandatory abandonment to Government
If any article entered under section
1752 of this title is still in customs custody, under such entry, at the expiration of 3 months after the closing date of the fair for which it was entered, such article shall thereupon be regarded as an article abandoned to the Government and shall be subject to sale or destruction of the article and disposition of the proceeds of sale in the manner provided for in sections
1491, 1492, and 1493 of this title. For purposes of this subsection, any duties or internal-revenue taxes on the article shall be computed on the basis of its condition and quantity at the time it becomes subject to sale.
(d) Period for performance of certain acts
Whenever any article entered under section
1752 of this title is transferred pursuant to subsection (b)(2) or entered under subsection (a), the period prescribed for the performance of any act required by the provision governing the status to which the article is transferred, or under which the article is entered, shall run from the date of such transfer or entry.