[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 5, Parts 200 to 399]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR356.2]

[Page 443-444]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 356--FORFEITURE PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 356.2  Appraisement.

    Promptly following the seizure or other receipt of property 
specified in Sec. 356.1, the Deputy Administrator shall determine the 
retail value of such

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property in the same quantity or quantities as seized. If the property 
may lawfully be sold in the United States, the value thereof shall be 
determined by ascertaining the price at which the property or similar 
property in the ordinary course of trade is freely offered for sale at 
the time of appraisement, and at a principal market as close as possible 
to the place of appraisement. If the property may not lawfully be sold 
in the United States, the value thereof shall be determined by other 
reasonable means.