[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR10.5]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 10--ARTICLES CONDITIONALLY FREE, SUBJECT TO A REDUCED RATE, ETC.--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 10.5  Shooks and staves; cloth boards; port director's account.

    (a) Shooks and staves produced in the United States and returned in 
the form of complete boxes or barrels in use as the usual containers of 
merchandise are exempt from any duties imposed by the tariff laws upon 
similar containers made of foreign shooks or staves, provided their 
identity is established under the regulations in this part.
    (b) The term ``shook'' embraces only shooks which at the time of 
exportation from this country are ready to be assembled into boxes or 
barrels without further cutting to size; except that box shooks may be 
exported in double lengths and cut abroad. The number of boxes made from 
such shooks which may be imported into this country free of duty cannot 
exceed the number of complete sets of shooks exported.
    (c) [Reserved]
    (d) An exporter of shooks or staves in respect of which free entry 
is to be claimed when returned as boxes or barrels shall file in 
triplicate with the director of the port of exportation, at least 6 
hours before the landing of the articles on the exporting vessel, a 
Certificate of Registration, Customs Form 4455.
    (e) The Certificate of Registration, CF 4455, shall be completed in 
triplicate by the port director after verification from the manifest of 
the exporting vessel and the return of the lading officer. The original 
shall be forwarded by the port director to the consignee. The duplicate 
copy shall be given to the exporter and the triplicate copy shall be 
retained.
    (f) Whenever boxes or barrels alleged to have been manufactured from 
American shooks or staves are shipped to the United States from a person 
abroad other than the one to whom they were exported from the United 
States, the importer shall be required to obtain from the foreign 
consignee to whom the shooks or staves were originally exported from 
this country the certificate or certificates, Customs Form 4455, 
covering the exportation of the shooks or staves from the United States, 
or an extract therefrom signed by such consignee, showing the number of 
shooks or staves covered by such certificate or certificates, together 
with the number of superficial feet of such shooks or staves. Such Form 
4455, or extract therefrom, shall be filed by the importer in connection 
with the entry of the boxes or barrels.

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    (g) Accounts shall be kept by the director of the port of 
exportation of the shooks and staves as to each exportation thereof and 
as to the returns thereof in boxes, barrels, etc. Notifications of such 
returns shall be given to the port of exportation by the director of the 
port of importation. When returns in the form of boxes, barrels, etc., 
entirely account for the shooks and staves exported as shown on the 
appropriate Customs Form 4455, the port director maintaining the account 
shall so inform the port director making inquiry about the merchandise 
being imported and alleged to contain shooks or staves covered by the 
particular exportation.
    (h) A record of cloth boards of domestic manufacture exported to be 
wrapped with foreign textiles shall be kept by the port director in a 
similar manner as for shooks and staves. Cloth boards of domestic 
manufacture are conditionally free of duty under Chapter 98, subchapter 
1, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). If such 
boards are advanced in value or improved in condition while abroad, free 
entry shall be denied on importation.

[28 FR 14663, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 78-99, 43 FR 13060, Mar. 
29, 1978; T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 51247, Dec. 21, 1988; T.D. 98-52, 63 FR 
29954, June 2, 1998]