[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: 19CFR151.71]

[Page 195]
 
                        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 E--Wool and Hair
 
Sec. 151.71  Laboratory testing for clean yield.

    (a) Test and report by Customs laboratory. The clean yield of all 
general samples taken in accordance with Sec. 151.70 shall be determined 
by test in a Customs laboratory, unless it is found that it is not 
feasible to test such a sample and obtain a proper finding of percentage 
clean yield. A report of the percentage clean yield of each general 
sample as established by the test, or a statement of the reason for not 
testing a general sample, shall be forwarded to the port director.
    (b) Notification to importer. Where samples of wool or hair have 
been tested in a Customs laboratory and the port director has received a 
copy of the Laboratory Report, Customs Form 6415, the port director 
shall promptly provide notice of the test results by mailing a copy of 
that report to the importer.
    (c) Importer's request for retest. If the importer is dissatisfied 
with the port director's finding of clean yield, he may file with the 
port director a written request in duplicate for another laboratory test 
for percentage clean yield. Such request shall be filed within 14 
calendar days after the date of mailing of the notice of the port 
director's finding of clean yield. The request shall be granted if it 
appears to the port director to be made in good faith and if a second 
general sample as provided for in Sec. 151.70 is available for testing, 
or if all packages or, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Customs, an 
adequate number of the packages represented by the general sample are 
available and in their original imported condition.
    (d) Retest procedures. The second test shall be made upon the second 
general sample, if such a sample is available. If the second general 
sample is not available, the packages shall be reweighed, resampled, and 
tested in accordance with the provisions of this section. All costs and 
expenses of such operations, exclusive of the compensation of Customs 
officers, shall be borne by the importer, who may be present during such 
resampling and testing.
    (e) Request for commercial test. If the importer is dissatisfied 
with the results of the second laboratory test, or if a second 
laboratory test is not feasible, the wool or hair may be retested by a 
commercial laboratory in accordance with Sec. 151.73.

[T.D. 73-175, 38 FR 17470, July 2, 1973, as amended by T.D. 75-121, 40 
FR 23458, May 30, 1975; T.D. 93-52, 58 FR 37854, July 14, 1993]