{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s554","title_num":"18","num":"§ 554.","heading":"Smuggling goods from the United States","status":null,"guid":"idbbf38fe7-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(Added Pub. L. 109–177, title III, § 311(a), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 242.)","seq_in_title":222,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch27","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI","level":"part","num":"PART I—","heading":"CRIMES","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch27","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 27—","heading":"CUSTOMS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id746af84b-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s554\"><num value=\"554\">§ 554.</num><heading> Smuggling goods from the United States</heading><subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id746af84c-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s554/a\"><num value=\"a\">(a)</num><heading> <inline class=\"small-caps\">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Whoever fraudulently or knowingly exports or sends from the United States, or attempts to export or send from the United States, any merchandise, article, or object contrary to any law or regulation of the United States, or receives, conceals, buys, sells, or in any manner facilitates the transportation, concealment, or sale of such merchandise, article or object, prior to exportation, knowing the same to be intended for exportation contrary to any law or regulation of the United States, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.</content>\n</subsection>\n<subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id746af84d-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s554/b\"><num value=\"b\">(b)</num><heading> <inline class=\"small-caps\">Definition</inline>.—</heading><content>In this section, the term “United States” has the meaning given that term in section 545.</content>\n</subsection>\n<sourceCredit id=\"id746af84e-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(Added <ref href=\"/us/pl/109/177/tIII/s311/a\">Pub. L. 109–177, title III, § 311(a)</ref>, <date date=\"2006-03-09\">Mar. 9, 2006</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/120/242\">120 Stat. 242</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id746af84f-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id746af850-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I76\" topic=\"codification\" id=\"id746af851-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Codification</heading>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Another section 554 was renumbered <ref href=\"/us/usc/t18/s555\">section 555 of this title</ref>.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}