---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 339"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "339"
heading: "Restriction on consular certificates"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/339"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — The Tariff and Related Provisions"
  - "Subtitle IV — Customs Administration"
  - "Part 3 — ascertainment, collection, and recovery of duties"
---

# §339. Restriction on consular certificates


No consular officer of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) shall grant a certificate for merchandise shipped from [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) adjacent to the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9), which have passed a consulate after purchase for shipment.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 2861.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2861 derived from act Feb. 22, 1873, ch. 184, § 3, 17 Stat. 474.