[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 19CFR12.14]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 12--SPECIAL CLASSES OF MERCHANDISE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 12.14  Detention.

    (a) Port directors shall refuse release of all plants or plant 
products with respect to which a notice of prohibition has been 
promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture under any of the various 
quarantines. If an importer refuses to export a prohibited shipment 
immediately, the port director shall report the facts to the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, 
Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs and the United States attorney 
and withhold delivery pending advice from that Department.
    (b) In case of doubt as to whether any plant or plant product is 
prohibited, the port director shall detain it pending advice from the 
Department of Agriculture.

[28 FR 14710, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 78-99, 43 FR 13060, Mar. 
29, 1978]