[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 15CFR315.1]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
 CHAPTER III--INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 315--DETERMINATION OF BONA FIDE MOTOR-VEHICLE MANUFACTURER--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 315.1  Scope and purpose.

    The purpose of this part is to set forth regulations implementing 
headnote 2 to subpart B, part 6, schedule 6 of the Tariff Schedules of 
the United States as proclaimed by Proclamation No. 3682 of October 21, 
1965 (3 CFR 140-65 Comp.). issued pursuant to the Automotive Products 
Trade Act of 1965 (19 U.S.C. 2031), by establishing a procedure under 
which a person may apply to be determined a bona fide motor-vehicle 
manufacturer. Under headnote 2 to subpart B, part 6, schedule 6 of the 
Tariff Schedules of the United States, whenever the Secretary of 
Commerce has determined a person to be a bona fide motor-vehicle 
manufacturer, such person is eligible to obtain duty-free importation of 
certain Canadian articles and to issue certain orders, contracts, or 
letters of intent under or pursuant to which other persons, not 
themselves bona fide motor-vehicle manufacturers, may obtain duty-free 
treatment for such Canadian articles. The responsibilities of Secretary 
of Commerce relating to the development, maintenance and publication of 
a list of bona fide motor-vehicle manufacturers and the authority to 
promulgate rules and regulations pertaining thereto have been delegated 
to Under Secretary for International Trade, Department of Commerce 
pursuant to Department of Commerce Organization Order 40-1, Amendment 9 
of January 22, 1984 (49 FR 4538).

[45 FR 42214, June 23, 1980. Redesignated and amended at 53 FR 52115, 
Dec. 27, 1988]