49 USC 41908: Prices for transporting mail of foreign countries

49 USC 41908: Prices for transporting mail of foreign countries Text contains those laws in effect on January 4, 1995

From Title 49-TRANSPORTATIONSUBTITLE VII-AVIATION PROGRAMSPART A-AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETYsubpart ii-economic regulationCHAPTER 419-TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL

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§41908. Prices for transporting mail of foreign countries

(a) Price Determinations.-The United States Postal Service shall determine the prices that an air carrier holding a certificate that authorizes foreign air transportation must charge a government of a foreign country or foreign postal administration for transporting mail of the foreign country. The Postal Service shall put those prices into effect under the postal convention regulating postal relations between the United States and the foreign country or as provided under this section.

(b) Changes.-The Postal Service may authorize an air carrier holding a certificate that authorizes foreign air transportation, under limitations the Postal Service prescribes, to change the prices the carrier charges a government of a foreign country or foreign postal administration for transporting mail of the foreign country in the foreign country or between the foreign country and another foreign country.

(c) Collecting Compensation.-(1) When an air carrier holding a certificate that authorizes foreign air transportation transports mail of a foreign country-

(A) under an arrangement with a government of a foreign country or foreign postal administration made or approved under this section, the carrier must collect its compensation for the transportation from the foreign country under the arrangement; and

(B) without having an arrangement with a government of a foreign country or foreign postal administration consistent with this section, the compensation collected by the United States Government for the transportation shall be for the account of the air carrier.

(2) An air carrier holding a certificate that authorizes foreign air transportation is not entitled to receive compensation from both a government of a foreign country or foreign postal administration and the United States Government for transporting the same mail of the foreign country.

( Pub. L. 103–272, §1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1156 .)

Historical and Revision Notes
Revised Section	Source (U.S. Code)	Source (Statutes at Large)
41908(a)	49 App.:1375(f)(1) (2d, 3d sentences).	Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726, §405(f)(1) (2d– last sentences), (2), 72 Stat. 761 .
41908(b)	49 App.:1375(f)(1) (last sentence).
41908(c)	49 App.:1375(f)(2).

In this section, the words "government of a foreign country or foreign postal administration" is substituted for "foreign country" for clarity and consistency in the revised title.

In subsection (a), the text of 49 App.:1375(f)(1) (3d sentence) is omitted as obsolete and superseded by 39:5402. The word "prices" is substituted for "rates of compensation" for consistency in this part. The words "from time to time" are omitted as surplus.

In subsection (c)(1), the words "When . . . transports mail of a foreign country . . . (A) under an arrangement with a government of a foreign country or foreign postal administration made or approved under this section . . . (B) without having an arrangement with a government of a foreign country or foreign postal administration consistent with this section" are substituted for "In any case where . . . has an arrangement with any foreign country for transporting its mails, made or approved in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) of this subsection . . . and in case of the absence of any arrangement between the air carrier and the foreign country consistent with this subsection" for clarity and to eliminate unnecessary words. The words "for the transportation" are added for clarity.