[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR142.41]

[Page 52-53]
 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 142--ENTRY PROCESS--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart D--Line Release
 
Sec. 142.41  Line Release.

    Source: T.D. 92-93, 57 FR 44093, Sept. 24, 1992, unless otherwise 
noted.


    Line Release is an automated system designed to release and tract 
repetitive shipments. It is a method of entry or immediate delivery 
extended to importers of merchandise which Customs deems to be 
repetitive and high volume. Line Release may be used only at locations 
approved by Customs for handling Line Release. At certain high-

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risk locations along the land borders of the United States (the 
locations to be published in the Federal Register), which are approved 
by Customs for handling Line Release, the use of Line Release for 
particular shipments may be denied by Customs unless the imported 
merchandise is transported by carriers that participate in the Land 
Border Carrier Initiative Program (see, subpart H of part 123 of this 
chapter).

[T.D. 92-93, 57 FR 44093, as amended by T.D. 99-2, 64 FR 33, Jan. 4, 
1999]