common carrier
(6)The term “common carrier”— (A)means a person that— (i)holds itself out to the general public to provide transportation by water of passengers or cargo between the United States and a foreign country for compensation; (ii)assumes responsibility for the transportation from the port or point of receipt to the port or point of destination; and (iii)uses, for all or part of that transportation, a vessel operating on the high seas or the Great Lakes between a port in the United States and a port in a foreign country; but (B)does not include a carrier engaged in ocean transportation by ferry boat, ocean tramp, or chemical parcel-tanker, or by vessel when primarily engaged in the carriage of perishable agricultural commodities— (i)if the carrier and the owner of those commodities are wholly-owned, directly or indirectly, by a person primarily engaged in the marketing and distribution of those commodities; and (ii)only with respect to the carriage of those commodities.