U.S. COGSA 1936

The US Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1936, 46 U.S.C. App. 1300 et seq. (now a note to 46 U.S.C. 30701), enacts the unamended 1924 Hague Rules for carriage to or from US ports in foreign trade. It keeps the USD 500-per-package limitation that the rest of the world raised through the Visby Protocol, which makes the definition of a package, and the fair-opportunity doctrine for declaring higher value, recurring litigation in US courts. The one-year time bar and the catalogue of carrier defenses track the Hague Rules.