[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 19CFR123.16]

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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. 123.16  Entry of returning trucks, busses, or taxicabs in international traffic.

    (a) Admission without entry or payment of duty. Trucks, busses, and 
taxicabs, whether of foreign or domestic origin, taking out merchandise 
or passengers for hire or leaving empty for the purpose of bringing back 
merchandise or passengers for hire shall on their return to the United 
States be admitted without formal entry or the payment of duty upon 
their identity being established by State registration cards.
    (b) Use in local traffic. Trucks, busses, and taxicabs in use in 
international traffic, which may include the incidental carrying of 
merchandise or passengers for hire between points in a foreign country, 
or between points in this country, shall be admitted under this section. 
However, such vehicles taken abroad for commercial use between points in 
a foreign country, otherwise than in the course of their use in 
international traffic, shall be considered to have been exported and 
must be regularly entered on return.

[T.D. 70-121, 35 FR 8215, May 26, 1970, as amended by T.D. 99-10, 64 FR 
7504, Feb. 16, 1999]