[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 19CFR18.1]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 18--TRANSPORTATION IN BOND AND MERCHANDISE IN TRANSIT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 18.1  Carriers; application to bond.

    (a)(1) Merchandise to be transported from one port to another in the 
United States in bond, except as provided for in paragraph (b) of this 
section, shall be delivered to a common carrier, contract carrier, 
freight forwarder, or private carrier bonded for that purpose, but such 
merchandise delivered to a common carrier, contract carrier, or freight 
forwarder may be transported with the use of facilities of other bonded 
or nonbonded carriers. For the purposes of this section, the term 
``common carrier'' means a common carrier of merchandise owning or 
operating a railroad, steamship, pipeline, or other transportation line 
or route. Only vessels entitled to engage in the coastwise trade (see 
Sec. 4.80 of this chapter) shall be entitled to transport merchandise 
under this section.
    (2) Merchandise to be transported from one port to another in the 
United States under cover of a TIR carnet (see part 114 of this 
chapter), except merchandise not otherwise subject to Customs control, 
as provided in Secs. 18.41 through 18.45, shall be delivered to a common 
carrier or contract carrier bonded for that purpose, but the merchandise 
thereafter may be transported with the use of other bonded or nonbonded 
common or contract carriers. The TIR carnet shall be responsible for 
liability incurred in the carriage of merchandise under the carnet, and 
the carrier's bond shall be responsible as provided in Sec. 114.22(d) of 
this chapter.
    (3) Merchandise to be transported from one port to another in the 
United States under cover of an A.T.A. or TECRO/AIT carnet (see part 114 
of this chapter) shall be delivered to a common carrier or contract 
carrier bonded for that purpose, but the merchandise thereafter may be 
transported with the use of other bonded or nonbonded common or contract 
carriers. The A.T.A. or TECRO/AIT carnet shall be responsible for 
liability incurred in the carriage of merchandise under the carnet, and 
the carrier's bond shall be responsible as provided in Sec. 114.22(d) of 
this chapter.
    (b) Pursuant to Public Resolution 108, of June 19, 1936, (19 U.S.C. 
1551, 1551a) and subject to compliance with all other applicable 
provisions of this part, the port director, upon the request of the 
party in interest, may permit merchandise entered and examined for 
Customs purposes to be transported in bond between the ports named in 
the resolution by bonded cartmen or lightermen duly qualified in 
accordance with the provisions of part 112 of this chapter, if the port 
director is satisfied that the transportation of such merchandise in 
this manner will not endanger the revenue.

[28 FR 14755, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 71-70, 36 FR 4485, Mar. 
6, 1971; T.D. 71-263, 36 FR 20291, Oct. 20, 1971; T.D. 73-140, 38 FR 
13550, May 23, 1973; T.D. 78-99, 43 FR 13061, Mar. 29, 1978; T.D. 82-
116, 47 FR 27261, June 24, 1982; T.D. 82-145, 47 FR 35478, Aug. 16, 
1982; 47 FR 39478, Sept. 8, 1982; T.D. 84-149, 49 FR 28698, July 16, 
1984; T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 51254, Dec. 21, 1988; T.D. 96-18, 61 FR 6779, 
Feb. 22, 1996; T.D. 98-10, 63 FR 4167, Jan. 28, 1998]