[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: 19CFR145.37]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 145--MAIL IMPORTATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart D--Special Classes of Merchandise
 
Sec. 145.37  Articles for the U.S. Government.

    (a) Mail articles for copyright. Mail articles marked for copyright 
which are addressed to the Library of Congress, to the U.S. Copyright 
Office, or to the office of the Register of Copyrights,

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Washington, DC, shall be passed free of duty without issuing an entry.
    (b) Books, engravings, and other articles. Books, classifiable under 
subheading 4903.00.00, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202), and engravings, etchings, and other articles 
enumerated in subheading 9808.00.10, HTSUS, shall be passed free of duty 
without issuing an entry when they are addressed to the Library of 
Congress or any department or agency of the U.S. Government.
    (c) Official Government documents. Other mail articles addressed to 
offices or officials of the U.S. Government, believed to contain only 
official documents, shall be passed free of duty without issuing an 
entry. Such mail articles, when believed to contain merchandise, shall 
be treated in the same manner as other mail articles of merchandise so 
addressed.

[T.D. 73-135, 38 FR 13369, May 21, 1973, as amended by T.D. 78-102, 43 
FR 14454, Apr. 6, 1978; T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 51263, Dec. 21, 1988; T.D. 91-
77, 56 FR 46115, Sept. 10, 1991]