[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 19CFR12.16]

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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. 12.16  Joint regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Agriculture.

    (a) The importation into the United States of agricultural and 
vegetable seeds and screenings thereof is governed by rules and 
regulations prescribed jointly by the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
Secretary of Agriculture under section 402(b) of the Federal Seed Act of 
August 9, 1939 (7 CFR part 201).
    (b) Under the said joint rules and regulations, port directors are 
required to draw samples of such seeds and screenings, forward them to 
the seed laboratories, and notify the owner or consignee that such 
samples have been drawn and that the shipment shall be held intact 
pending a decision of the

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Livestock, Meat, Grain, and Seed Division, Agricultural Marketing 
Service, in the matter.
    (c) It is further provided in said joint rules and regulations that 
after samples have been drawn such seeds and screenings shall be 
admitted into the commerce of the United States only if they have been 
found to meet the requirements of the Federal Seed Act of August 9, 
1939, and the said regulations, but if the containers bear sufficient 
marks of identification the port director may release the shipment, 
pending examination and decision in the matter, upon the giving of a 
bond. The bond shall be filed with the port director on Customs Form 301 
and contain the bond conditions set forth in Sec. 113.62 of this 
chapter. In case of default the port director shall issue a claim for 
liquidated damages under the bond.

[28 FR 14710, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 82-145, 47 FR 35476, 
Aug. 16, 1982; T.D. 84-213, 49 FR 41167, Oct. 19, 1984; T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 
51253, Dec. 21, 1988]

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