[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 19CFR123.14]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 123--CUSTOMS RELATIONS WITH CANADA AND MEXICO--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart B--International Traffic
 
Sec. 123.14  Entry of foreign-based trucks, busses, and taxicabs in international traffic.

    (a) Admission without entry or payment of duty. Trucks, busses, and 
taxicabs, however owned, which have their principal base of operations 
in a foreign country and which are engaged in international traffic, 
arriving with merchandise or passengers destined to points in the United 
States, or arriving empty or loaded for the purpose of taking out 
merchandise or passengers, may be admitted without formal entry or the 
payment of duty. Such vehicles shall not engage in local traffic except 
as provided in paragraph (c) of this section.
    (b) Deposit of registration by vehicle not on regular trip. In any 
case in which a foreign-based truck, bus, or taxicab admitted under this 
section is not in use on a regularly scheduled trip, the port director 
may require that the registration card for the vehicle be deposited 
pending the return of the vehicle for departure to the country from 
which it arrived, or the port director may take other appropriate 
measures to assure the proper use and departure of the vehicle.
    (c) Use in local traffic. Foreign-based trucks, busses, and taxicabs 
admitted under this section shall not engage in local traffic in the 
United States unless the vehicle comes within one of the following 
exceptions:
    (1) The vehicle may carry merchandise or passengers between points 
in the United States if such carriage is incidental to the immediately 
prior or subsequent engagement of that vehicle in international traffic. 
Any such carriage by the vehicle in the general direction of an export 
move or as part of the return of the vehicle to its base country shall 
be considered incidental to its engagement in international traffic. An 
alien driver will not be permitted to operate a vehicle under this 
paragraph, unless the driver is in compliance with the applicable 
regulations of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
    (2) A foreign-based truck trailer may carry merchandise between 
points in the United States on its departure for a foreign country under 
the same conditions as are prescribed for ``other foreign railroad 
equipment'' in Sec. 123.12(a)(2).
    (d) Penalty for improper use. The use of any vehicle referred to in 
this section in violation of this section may result in liabilities 
being incurred under section 592, Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 
U.S.C. 1592).

[T.D. 70-121, 35 FR 8215, May 26, 1970, as amended by T.D. 79-160, 44 FR 
31956, June 4, 1979; T.D. 83-118, 48 FR 23385, May 25, 1983; T.D. 99-10, 
64 FR 7504, Feb. 16, 1999]