Sec. 4. As used in this chapter, “importer” means any of the following:

(1) A person in the United States to whom nontaxpaid tobacco products, cigarette papers, or cigarette tubes manufactured in a foreign country, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or a possession of the United States are shipped or consigned.

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(2) A person who removes cigars or cigarettes for sale or consumption in the United States from a customs bonded manufacturing warehouse.

(3) A person who smuggles or unlawfully brings tobacco products, cigarette papers, or cigarette tubes into the United States.

As added by P.L.21-2000, SEC.10.