---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 207"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "207"
heading: "Persons affected by suspension of commercial intercourse"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/207"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Insurrection"
---

# §207. Persons affected by suspension of commercial intercourse


The provisions of this chapter in relation to commercial intercourse shall apply to all commercial intercourse by and between [persons](/usc/50/1841.md?p=1) residing or being within districts within the lines of national military occupation in the [States](/usc/50/1841.md?p=1) or parts of [States](/usc/50/1841.md?p=1) declared in insurrection, whether with each other or with [persons](/usc/50/1841.md?p=1) residing or being within districts declared in insurrection and not within those lines; and all [persons](/usc/50/1841.md?p=1) within the [United States](/usc/50/47f.md?p=d), not native or naturalized citizens thereof, shall be subject to the same prohibitions, in all commercial intercourse with inhabitants of [States](/usc/50/1841.md?p=1) or parts of [States](/usc/50/1841.md?p=1) declared in insurrection, as citizens of [States](/usc/50/1841.md?p=1) not declared to be in insurrection.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 5303.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 5303 derived from act July 2, 1864, ch. 225, § 4, 13 Stat. 376.