The article is exempt, the container is not
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The section begins by excepting a list of articles
Articles of a class or kind listed below are excepted from the requirements of country of origin marking, under a paragraph of the Tariff Act of 1930.
And then one word turns the exemption into a relocation
However, in the case of any article described in this list which is imported in a container, the outermost container in which the article ordinarily reaches the ultimate purchaser is required to be marked to indicate the origin of its contents.
So the article is relieved and the package picks the duty up
Which is the only rule in this library that works that way. The obligation is not removed, it is transferred from the thing to the thing it arrives in.
The general rule says the same more plainly
When an article is excepted from the marking requirements, the outermost container or holder shall be marked to indicate the country of origin of the article whether or not the article is marked to indicate its country of origin.
Whether or not is doing the work in that sentence
An article that happens to carry its own marking does not relieve the container. The container requirement stands on its own regardless of what is on the part inside.
This library has now collected four relationships between a rule and a container
And they are genuinely different things rather than four ways of saying one thing, which is why they are worth keeping in one place.
The container as carrier is the familiar one
Almost every spine described across these properties puts required information on a package because the package is the available surface.
The container as obstruction is the care labeling rule
It anticipates that a package hides the garment label and orders the care information onto the outside of the package as the remedy.
Packaging excluded outright is the composite wood standards
Wood packaging, including pallets, crates, spools, and dunnage, is named and taken outside the emission standards.
And this is the fourth, which is the container inheriting a duty
The article is excepted and the package is required. Nothing else in this library makes a container responsible for a fact about its contents in that way.
None of which reaches any container on this shelf
Part 134 governs the marking of imported articles, and this catalog does not record a country of origin for any product. Nothing on these pages determines anything under it.