J OHN RA rR COUNSELOR TELEPHONE: FTER AT WHITEHALL 4-5094 LAW 8 Bridge Hiroe, June 8, New York I 1953 Mr. Val A. Browning, Browning Arms Company, Ogden, Dear Utah. Mr. Browning; excuse Please of May 26th, inquiring Bill (H.R. 5106). the about in delay new the letter your answering Simplification Customs I now enclose a copy of that bill for your inforInsofar as it would affect your company's mation and files. importations, it is substantially the same as the Customs Simplification Bill which was before Congress at its previous session but failed to pass. duties 15 of the new eliminated as Under Section value" would be "foreion and appraised your at company's their as defined in to the prices RN. "United 26-33), ad valorem bill (pages a basis for imported guns States value". would be That entered and kind value, that bill, would, in my opinion, be at which your company purchases its of equivalent guns from This bill, if enacted in its present form, would also result in certain other advantages to your company. For example, it would allow five days, instead of only forty-eight hours, within which to make entry after arrival of your guns at St. Louis. (Section 17(b); page 31). It would -probably dispense with the present requirement for certified consular invoices covering the shipments of the guns from Belgium, inasmuch as the statutory requirement for such invoices would be eliminated and that subject would be left to the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury. (Section 17(c); pages 34-35). from six months to one year, the period It would also extend, during which articles imported under bond without payment of duty, solely for experimental purposes, may remain in this country, and it would provide for an extension of that period to three tion be years 10(a) and accorded (Section to 10(b); instead (b); of pages articles page 16). only one year, 15-16). That imported solely It would also as at present. privilege for would testing eliminate (Sec- also purposes. penalties,