---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 55318"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "55318"
heading: "Effect on other law"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/55318"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Merchant Marine"
  - "Part D — Promotional Programs"
  - "Chapter 553 — Passenger and Cargo Preferences"
  - "Subchapter II — Export Transportation of Agricultural Commodities"
---

# §55318. Effect on other law


This subchapter does not affect chapter 5 of title 5.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1648.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 55318 | 46 App.:1241p. | Pub. L. 99–198, title XI, § 1143, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1496. |

The words “section 1707a(b)(8) of title 7” are omitted because the provision referred to has been repealed.