---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 13502"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "13502"
heading: "Exempt transportation between Alaska and other States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/13502"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part B — Motor Carriers, Water Carriers, Brokers, and Freight Forwarders"
  - "Chapter 135 — Jurisdiction"
  - "Subchapter I — Motor Carrier Transportation"
---

# §13502. Exempt transportation between Alaska and other States


To the extent that [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) by a [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) between a place in Alaska and a place in another [State](/usc/49/10102.md?p=8) under [section 13501](/usc/49/13501.md) is provided in a foreign country—

- (1) neither the [Secretary](/usc/49/13102.md?p=20) nor the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) has jurisdiction to impose a requirement over conduct of the [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) in the foreign country conflicting with a requirement of that country; but
- (2) the [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14), as a condition of providing [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) in the [United States](/usc/49/10102.md?p=10), shall comply, with respect to all [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) provided between Alaska and the other [State](/usc/49/10102.md?p=8), with the requirements of this part related to [rates](/usc/49/10102.md?p=7) and practices applicable to the [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 859.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 10522 of this title prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 104–88, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.