[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: 19CFR145.40]

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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. 145.40  Plant material imported for immediate exportation.

    Plant material may be imported by mail free of duty for immediate 
exportation by mail subject to the following regulations, which have 
been approved by the Department of Agriculture and the Postal Service. 
This procedure shall not affect the movement of plant material in the 
internal mails through the United States:
    (a) Permit for entry. Each shipment shall be dispatched in the mails 
from abroad, accompanied by a yellow and green special mail tag bearing 
the serial number of the permit for entry for immediate exportation or 
immediate transportation and exportation, issued by the U.S. Department 
of Agriculture, and also by the postal form of Customs declaration.
    (b) Place of inspection. Upon arrival, the shipment shall be 
detained by or redispatched to the postmaster at Washington, DC, 
Brownsville, Tex., Hoboken, NJ, Honolulu, Hawaii, Laredo, Tex., Miami, 
Fla., San Francisco, Calif., San Juan, P.R., San Pedro, Calif., or 
Seattle, Wash., as may be appropriate, according to the address on the 
green and yellow tag, and there submitted to the Customs officer and the 
Federal quarantine inspector. The merchandise shall be accorded special 
handling only at these cities, and under no circumstances shall it be 
permitted to enter the commerce of the United States.
    (c) Special handling. After inspection by the Customs and quarantine 
officers, and with their approval, the addressee or his authorized agent 
shall repack and readdress the mail package under Customs supervision; 
endorse and sign on the package a waiver of the addressee's right to 
withdraw the mail article from the mails; affix to the mail article the 
necessary postage; and comply with any other mailing and export 
requirements, after which the package shall be delivered under Customs 
supervision to the postmaster for exportation by mail in accordance with 
Sec. 145.71.
    (d) Entry not required. It will not be necessary to issue a Customs 
mail entry nor to require a formal entry of the shipment.

[T.D. 73-175, 38 FR 13369, May 21, 1973, as amended by T.D. 78-102, 43 
FR 14455, Apr. 6, 1978]

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