definition of original motor-vehicle equipment

definition of original motor-vehicle equipment Sec. 404. In the headnotes for subpart B, part 6, schedule 6 add after headnote 1 (p. 325) the following new headnote: “2. Motor Vehicles and Original Equipment Therefor of Canadian Origin.—(a) The term ‘original motor-vehicle equipment’, as used in the schedules with reference to a Canadian article (as defined by general headnote 3(d)), means such a Canadian article which has been obtained from a supplier in Canada under or pursuant to a written order, contract, or letter of intent of a bona fide motor-vehicle manufacturer in the United States, and which is a fabricated component intended for use as original equipment in the manufacture in the United States of a motor vehicle, but the term does not include trailers or articles to be used in their manufacture. 79 Stat. 1023 “(b) The term ‘motor vehicle’, as used in this headnote, means a motor vehicle of a kind described in item 692.05 or 692,10 of this subpart (excluding an electric trolley bus and a three-wheeled vehicle) or an automobile truck tractor. “(c) The term ‘bona fide motor-vehicle manufacturer’, as used in this headnote, means a person who, upon application to the Secretary of Commerce, is determined by the Secretary to have produced no fewer than 15 complete motor vehicles in the United States during the previous 12 months, and to have installed capacity in the United States to produce 10 or more complete motor vehicles per 40-hour week. The Secretary’ of Commerce shall maintain, and publish from time to time in the Federal Register, a list of the names and addresses of bona fide motor-vehicle manufacturers. “(d) If any Canadian article accorded the status of original motor-vehicle equipment is not so used in the manufacture in the United States of motor vehicles, such Canadian article or its value (to be recovered from the importer or other person who diverted the article from its intended use as original motor-vehicle equipment) shall be subject to forfeiture, unless at the time of the diversion of the Canadian article the United States Customs Service is notified in writing, and, pursuant to arrangements made with the Service— “(i) the Canadian article is, under customs supervision, destroyed or exported, or “(ii) duty is paid to the United States Government in an amount equal to the duty which would have been payable at the time of entry if the Canadian article had not been entered as original motor-vehicle equipment.”