[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: 19CFR158.2]

[Page 216]
 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 158--RELIEF FROM DUTIES ON MERCHANDISE LOST, DAMAGED, ABANDONED, OR EXPORTED--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart A--Lost or Missing Packages and Deficiencies in Contents of 
                                Packages
 
Sec. 158.2  Shortages in packages released under immediate delivery or entry.

    An importer may file an entry summary for consumption or an entry 
summary for warehouse for less than the invoiced and manifested number 
of packages in a shipment ``permitted'' and delivered to him or 
deposited in a bonded warehouse under the immediate delivery procedure 
in Sec. 142.21 of this chapter, or under the entry documentation in 
Sec. 142.3(a), if he files with the entry summary a Customs Form 5931 in 
triplicate. The Customs Form 5931 shall be completed by the importer 
with attached copies of the dock receipt or other documents evidencing 
nonreceipt of the lost or missing packages.

[T.D. 85-159, 50 FR 38520, Sept. 23, 1985]