[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: 19CFR123.42]

[Page 589-590]
 
                        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 E--United States and Canada In-Transit Truck Procedures
 
Sec. 123.42  Truck shipments transiting the United States.

    (a) Manifest required. Trucks with merchandise transiting the United 
States from point to point in Canada will be manifested on United 
States-Canada Transit Manifest, Customs Form 7512-B Canada 8\1/2\. The 
driver, in accordance with Canadian Customs regulations, shall present 
the manifest in four copies to Canadian Customs at the Canadian port of 
departure for review and validation.
    (b) Procedure at Canadian port of departure. The Customs officer 
receiving the manifest shall validate it by stamping each copy in the 
lower right hand corner to show the port name and date and by initialing 
each copy. All copies of the validated manifest then

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will be returned to the driver for presentation to U.S. Customs at the 
United States port of entry.
    (c) Procedure at United States port of arrival--(1) Presentation of 
manifest. The driver shall present a validated United States-Canada 
Transit Manifest, Customs Form 7512-B Canada 8\1/2\, in four copies to 
the U.S. Customs officer, who shall review the manifest for accuracy and 
verify its validation by Canadian Customs. If the manifest is found not 
to be validated properly, the truck will be required to be returned to 
the Canadian port of departure so that the manifest may be validated in 
accordance with Canadian Customs regulations. If the manifest is 
validated properly and no irregularity is found the truck will be sealed 
unless sealing is waived by U.S. Customs. The U.S. Customs officer shall 
note on the manifest over his initials the seal numbers or the waiver of 
sealing, retain the original, and return three copies of the manifest to 
the driver for presentation to U.S. Customs at the United States port of 
exit.
    (2) Sealing or waiver of sealing. Trucks transiting the United 
States will be sealed with red in-bond seals at the United States port 
of arrival unless sealing is waived in accordance with Sec. 18.4 of this 
chapter. If a truck cannot be sealed effectively and sealing is deemed 
necessary to protect the revenue or to prevent violation of the Customs 
laws or regulations, the truck will not be permitted to transit the 
United States under bond.
    (d) Procedure at United States port of exit. The driver shall 
present the three validated copies of the manifest to the U.S. Customs 
officer at the U.S. port of exit. The Customs officer shall check the 
numbers and condition of the seals and record and certify his findings 
on all copies of the manifest, returning two certified copies to the 
driver (one to be presented to Canadian Customs at the Canadian port of 
reentry, the other for the carrier's records), and the truck will be 
allowed to proceed to Canada. The check of the seals shall be made as 
follows:
    (1) If the seals are intact, they will be left unbroken unless there 
is indication that the contents should be verified.
    (2) If the seals have been broken, or there is other indication that 
the contents should be verified, all merchandise will be required to be 
unladen and a detailed inventory made against the waybills.

If sealing has been waived, the Customs officer shall verify the goods 
against the accompanying waybills in sufficient detail to detect any 
irregularity.
    (e) Procedure at Canadian port of reentry. The driver of a truck 
reentering Canada after transiting the United States shall present a 
certified copy of the United States-Canada Transit Manifest, Customs 
Forms 7512-B Canada 8\1/2\, to the Canadian Customs officer. If this 
copy of the manifest does not bear the certification of a U.S. Customs 
officer at the United States port of exit, the driver will be allowed to 
return to that port to have it certified.
    (f) Proof of exportation from United States. The certified copy of 
the manifest returned to the driver by the U.S. Customs officer at the 
U.S. port of exit will serve as proof of exportation of the shipment 
from the U.S.
    (g) Forwarding procedure. Except as otherwise provided in this 
section, merchandise transported in trucks shall be forwarded in 
accordance with the general provisions for transportation in bond 
(Secs. 18.1-18.8 of this chapter).

[T.D. 81-85, 46 FR 21991, Apr. 15, 1981, as amended by T.D. 84-212, 49 
FR 39047, Oct. 3, 1984; T.D. 00-22, 65 FR 16518, Mar. 29, 2000]