[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: 19CFR151.51]

[Page 191]
 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 151--EXAMINATION, SAMPLING, AND TESTING OF MERCHANDISE--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart D--Metal-Bearing Ores and Other Metal-Bearing Materials
 
Sec. 151.51  Sampling requirements.


    (a) General. Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, 
when metal-bearing ores and other metal-bearing materials which are 
classifiable under Chapter 26, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States (HTSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202), are entered for consumption or 
warehousing at the port of first arrival, they shall be sampled for 
assay and moisture purposes in accordance with Sec. 151.52. If proper 
facilities for weighing or sampling are not available at the port of 
entry, the merchandise shall be transported under bond to the place of 
sampling. The sampling or weighing of metal-bearing ores or materials at 
any place other than the port of entry shall be at the expense of the 
parties in interest.
    (b) Ores of low metal content. When, on the basis of invoice 
information, the nature of any available sample, knowledge of prior 
importations of similar materials, and other data, the port director is 
satisfied that metal-bearing ores entered under heading 2617, HTSUS, as 
containing less than 1 percent of metals dutiable under headings 2603, 
2607, and 2608, HTSUS, are properly entered, he may liquidate the entry 
on the basis of the assay information contained in the entry papers. 
However, the sampling and testing procedures prescribed in Secs. 151.52 
and 151.54 shall be followed at random intervals for verification 
purposes.

[T.D. 73-175, 38 FR 17470, July 2, 1973, as amended by T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 
51269, Dec. 21, 1988]