ORIGINAL-PACKAGE DOCTRINE

original-package doctrine.Constitutional law. The principle that imported goods are exempt from state taxation as long as they are unsold and remain in the original packaging. • The Supreme Court abolished this doctrine in 1976, holding that states can tax imported goods if the tax is nondiscriminatory. See IMPORT–EXPORT CLAUSE. [Cases: Commerce  77.10(3). C.J.S.

Commerce § 31.]

[Blacks Law 8th]