[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR776.13]

[Page 327]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 776_INTERPRETATIVE BULLETIN ON THE GENERAL COVERAGE OF THE WAGE 
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 776.13  Commerce crossing international boundaries.

    Under the Act, as amended, an employee engaged in ``trade commerce, 
transportation, transmission, or communication'' between any State and 
any place outside thereof is covered by the Act regardless of whether 
the ``place outside'' is another State or is a foreign country or is 
some other place. Before the amendment to section 3(b) which became 
effective January 25, 1950, employees whose work related solely to the 
flow of commerce into a State from places outside it which were not 
``States'' as defined in the Act were not employees engaged in 
``commerce'' for purposes of the Act, although employees whose work was 
concerned with the flow of commerce out of the State to such places were 
so engaged. \49\ This placed employees of importers in a less favorable 
position under the Act than the employees of exporters. This inequality 
was removed by the amendment to section 3(b). \50\ Accordingly, 
employees performing work in connection with the importation of goods 
from foreign countries are engaged ``in commerce'' and covered by the 
Act, as amended. The coverage of such employees, as of those performing 
work in connection with the exportation of goods to foreign countries, 
is determined by the same principles as in the case of employees whose 
work is connected with goods procured from or sent to other States.
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    \49\ The definition of ``commerce'' previously referred to commerce 
``from any State to any place outside thereof.'' The amendment 
substituted ``between'' for ``from'' and ``and'' for ``to'' in this 
clause.
    \50\ H. Mgrs. St., 1949, pp. 13, 14.
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          Engaging in ``The Production of Goods for Commerce''