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    • Annex 307.3: Repair and Rebuilding of Vessels

    United States

    For the purpose of increasing transparency regarding the types of repairs that may be performed in shipyards outside the territory of the United States that do not result in any loss of privileges for such vessel to:

  • Remain eligible to engage in coastwise trade or to access U.S. fisheries,

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  • Transport U.S. government cargo, or

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  • Participate in U.S. assistance programs, including the "operating difference subsidy,"

    • The United States shall,

  • Provide written clarification no later than July 1, 1993, to the other Parties of current U.S. Customs and Coast Guard practices that constitute, and differentiate between, the repair and the rebuilding of vessels, including clarifications with respect to "jumboizing", vessel conversions and casualty repairs, and

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  • Begin a process, no later than the date of entry into force of this Agreement, to define the terms "repairs" and "rebuilding" under U.S. maritime law, including the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, 46 App. U.S.C. 883, and the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, 46 App. U.S.C. 1171, 1176, 1241 and 1241(o).