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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1124. Importation of goods bearing infringing marks or names forbidden
Except as provided in subsection (d) of section 1526 of title 19,
no article of imported merchandise which shall copy or simulate the
name of any domestic manufacture, or manufacturer, or trader, or of
any manufacturer or trader located in any foreign country which, by
treaty, convention, or law affords similar privileges to citizens
of the United States, or which shall copy or simulate a trademark
registered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or
shall bear a name or mark calculated to induce the public to
believe that the article is manufactured in the United States, or
that it is manufactured in any foreign country or locality other
than the country or locality in which it is in fact manufactured,
shall be admitted to entry at any customhouse of the United States;
and, in order to aid the officers of the customs in enforcing this
prohibition, any domestic manufacturer or trader, and any foreign
manufacturer or trader, who is entitled under the provisions of a
treaty, convention, declaration, or agreement between the United
States and any foreign country to the advantages afforded by law to
citizens of the United States in respect to trademarks and
commercial names, may require his name and residence, and the name
of the locality in which his goods are manufactured, and a copy of
the certificate of registration of his trademark, issued in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to be recorded in
books which shall be kept for this purpose in the Department of the
Treasury, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury
shall prescribe, and may furnish to the Department facsimiles of
his name, the name of the locality in which his goods are
manufactured, or of his registered trademark, and thereupon the
Secretary of the Treasury shall cause one or more copies of the
same to be transmitted to each collector or other proper officer of
customs.
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