comment on post "DOJ: Thrashing of cars legal

comment on post "DOJ: Thrashing of cars legal":

I think the DOJ's reliance on Section 2609 of the Tariff and Customs Code is misplaced because that provision refers to contraband (i.e., articles of prohibited importation and exportation). Articles of prohibited importation are enumerated in Section 102 of the same Code.

I am not aware of any law prohibiting the importation of luxury cars. Without such law, the cars cannot be classified as contraband and therefore beyond the scope of Section 2609.

Besides, what illegal activities in the future is the DOJ speaking of when the illegal act of smuggling (of goods the importation of which is not necessarily prohibited) happened in the past?

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