---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 547"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "547"
heading: "Depositing goods in buildings on boundaries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/547"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 27 — Customs"
---

# §547. Depositing goods in buildings on boundaries


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1) receives or deposits any merchandise in any building upon the boundary line between the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9) and any foreign country, or carries any merchandise through the same, in violation of law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 717; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on section 1596 of title 19, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Customs Duties (June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 596, 46 Stat. 752).

Reference to persons aiding, contained in words “or aids therein,” was omitted as such persons are made principals by section 2 of this title.

Changes were made in phraseology.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $5,000”.