---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6301"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6301"
heading: "Imports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6301"
units:
  - "Chapter 77 — Energy Conservation"
  - "Subchapter III — Improving Energy Efficiency"
  - "Part A — Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles"
---

# §6301. Imports


Any [covered product](/usc/42/6291.md?p=2) offered for [importation](/usc/42/6291.md?p=11) in [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c) of [section 6302 of this title](/usc/42/6302.md) shall be refused admission into the customs territory of the [United States](/usc/42/6202.md?p=5) under rules issued by the [Secretary](/usc/42/6202.md?p=1) of the Treasury, except that the [Secretary](/usc/42/6202.md?p=1) of the Treasury may, by such rules, authorize the [importation](/usc/42/6291.md?p=11) of such [covered product](/usc/42/6291.md?p=2) upon such terms and conditions (including the furnishing of a bond) as may appear to him appropriate to ensure that such [covered product](/usc/42/6291.md?p=2) will not violate [section 6302 of this title](/usc/42/6302.md), or will be exported or abandoned to the [United States](/usc/42/6202.md?p=5). The [Secretary](/usc/42/6202.md?p=1) of the Treasury shall prescribe rules under this section not later than 180 days after December 22, 1975.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–163, title III, § 331, Dec. 22, 1975, 89 Stat. 928.)