---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 144a"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "144a"
heading: "Incorporation fee for perpetual existence"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/144a"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — China Trade"
---

# §144a. Incorporation fee for perpetual existence


Any [China Trade Act corporation](/usc/15/142.md?p=c) existing on June 25, 1938, may make its existence perpetual only upon application to the [Secretary](/usc/15/142.md?p=e) of Commerce to amend its charter in that respect and upon payment of a fee equivalent to the incorporation fee. Upon receipt of such application and the payment of such prescribed fee, the [Secretary](/usc/15/142.md?p=e) shall approve such application and the charter of the [corporation](/usc/15/142.md?p=c) shall be amended accordingly.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1938, ch. 696, § 2, 52 Stat. 1196.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the China Trade Act, 1922, which comprises this chapter.