---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 81r"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "81r"
heading: "Revocation of grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/81r"
units:
  - "Chapter 1A — Foreign Trade Zones"
---

# §81r. Revocation of grants

- (a) **Procedure for revocation—** In the event of repeated willful violations of any of the provisions of this chapter by the [grantee](/usc/19/81a.md?p=h), the [Board](/usc/19/81a.md?p=b) may revoke the grant after four months’ notice to the [grantee](/usc/19/81a.md?p=h) and affording it an opportunity to be heard. The testimony taken before the [Board](/usc/19/81a.md?p=b) shall be reduced to writing and filed in the records of the [Board](/usc/19/81a.md?p=b) together with the decision reached thereon.
- (b) **Attendance of witnesses and production of evidence—** In the conduct of any proceeding under this section for the revocation of a grant the [Board](/usc/19/81a.md?p=b) may compel the attendance of witnesses and the giving of testimony and the production of documentary evidence, and for such purpose may invoke the aid of the district courts of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9).
- (c) **Nature of order of revocation; appeal—** An order under the provisions of this section revoking the grant issued by the [Board](/usc/19/81a.md?p=b) shall be final and conclusive, unless within ninety days after its [service](/usc/19/2576b.md?p=4) the [grantee](/usc/19/81a.md?p=h) appeals to the court of appeals for the circuit in which the [zone](/usc/19/81a.md?p=i) is located by filing with the clerk of said court a written petition praying that the order of the [Board](/usc/19/81a.md?p=b) be set aside. Such order shall be stayed pending the disposition of appellate proceedings by the court. The clerk of the court in which such a petition is filed shall immediately cause a copy thereof to be delivered to the [Board](/usc/19/81a.md?p=b) and it shall thereupon file in the court the record in the proceedings held before it under this section, as provided in [section 2112 of title 28](/usc/28/2112.md). The testimony and evidence taken or submitted before the [Board](/usc/19/81a.md?p=b), duly certified and filed as a part of the record, shall be considered by the court as the evidence in the case.

## Source credit

(June 18, 1934, ch. 590, § 18, 48 Stat. 1002; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32(a), 62 Stat. 991; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127, 63 Stat. 107; Pub. L. 85–791, § 11, Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 945.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1958—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 85–791 substituted “thereupon file in the court” for “forthwith prepare, certify, and file in the court a full and accurate transcript of” and “as provided in section 2112 of title 28” for “the charges, the evidence, and the order revoking the grant” in third sentence.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Act June 25, 1948, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, as amended by act May 24, 1949, substituted “court of appeals” for “circuit court of appeals”.