[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR4.34]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 4--VESSELS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC TRADES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 4.34  Prematurely discharged, overcarried, and undelivered cargo.

    (a) Prematurely landed cargo. Upon receipt of a satisfactory written 
application from the owner or agent of a vessel establishing that cargo 
was prematurely landed and left behind by the importing vessel through 
error or emergency, the port director may permit inward foreign cargo 
remaining on the dock to be reladen on the next available vessel owned 
or chartered by the owner of the importing vessel for transportation to 
the destination shown on the Cargo Declaration, Customs Form 1302, of 
the first vessel, provided the importing vessel actually entered the 
port of destination of the prematurely landed cargo. Unless so forwarded 
within 30 days from the date of landing, the cargo shall be 
appropriately entered for Customs clearance or for forwarding in bond; 
otherwise, it shall be sent to general order as unclaimed. If the 
merchandise is so entered for Customs clearance at the port of unlading, 
or if it is so forwarded in bond, other than by the importing vessel or 
by another vessel owned or chartered by the owner of the importing 
vessel, representatives of the importing vessel shall file at the port 
of unlading a Cargo Declaration in duplicate listing the cargo. The port 
director shall retain the original and forward the duplicate to the 
director of the originally intended port of discharge.
    (b) Overcarried cargo. Upon receipt of a satisfactory written 
application by the owner or agent of a vessel establishing that cargo 
was not landed at its destination and was overcarried to another 
domestic port through error or emergency, the port director may permit 
the cargo to be returned in the importing vessel, or in another vessel 
owned or chartered by the owner of the importing vessel, to the 
destination shown on the Cargo Declaration, Customs Form 1302, of the 
importing vessel, provided the importing vessel actually entered the 
port of destination.67
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    \67\ See Sec. 141.69(c) of this chapter for the conditions under 
which such merchandise and goods removed from a port of intended entry 
under these or certain other circumstances may subsequently be cleared 
under a consumption entry which had been filed therefore before the 
merchandise was removed from the port of intended entry.
    68-69 [Reserved]
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    (c) Inaccessibly stowed cargo. Cargo so stowed as to be inaccessible 
upon arrival at destination may be retained on board, carried forward to 
another domestic port or ports, and returned to the port of destination 
in the importing vessel or in another vessel owned or chartered by the 
owner of the importing vessel in the same manner as other overcarried 
cargo.
    (d) Application for forwarding cargo. When it is desired that 
prematurely landed cargo, overcarried cargo, or cargo so stowed as to be 
inaccessible, be forwarded to its destination by the importing vessel or 
by another vessel owned or chartered by the owner of the importing 
vessel in accordance with paragraph (a), (b), or (c) of this section, 
the required application shall be filed with the local director of the 
port of premature landing or overcarriage by the owner or agent of the 
vessel. The application shall be supported by a Cargo Declaration, 
Customs Form 1302, in such number of copies as the port director may 
require. Whenever practicable, the application shall be made on the face 
of the Cargo Declaration below the description of the merchandise. The 
application shall specify the vessel on which the cargo was imported, 
even though the forwarding to destination is by another vessel owned or 
chartered by the owner of the importing vessel, and all ports of 
departure and dates of sailing of the importing vessel. The application 
shall be stamped and signed to show that it has been approved.
    (e) Manifesting prematurely landed or overcarried cargo. One copy of 
the Cargo

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Declaration, Customs Form 1302, shall be certified by Customs for use as 
a substitute traveling manifest for the prematurely landed or 
overcarried cargo being forwarded as residue cargo, whether or not the 
forwarding vessel is also carrying other residue cargo. If the 
application for forwarding is made on the Cargo Declaration, the new 
substitute traveling manifest shall be stamped to show the approval of 
the application. If the application is on a separate document, a copy 
thereof, stamped to show its approval, shall be attached to the 
substitute traveling manifest. An appropriate cross-reference shall be 
placed on the original traveling manifest to show that the vessel has 
one or more substitute traveling manifests. A permit to proceed endorsed 
on a Vessel Entrance or Clearance Statement, Customs Form 1300, issued 
to the vessel transporting the prematurely landed or overcarried cargo 
to its destination shall make reference to the nature of such cargo, 
identifying it with the importing vessel.
    (f) Residue cargo procedure. A vessel with prematurely landed or 
overcarried cargo on board shall comply upon arrival at all domestic 
ports of call with all the requirements of part 4 relating to foreign 
residue cargo for domestic ports. The substitute traveling manifest, 
carried forward from port to port by the oncarrying vessel, shall be 
finally surrendered at the port where the last portion of the 
prematurely landed or overcarried cargo is discharged.
    (g) Cargo undelivered at foreign port and returned to the U.S. 
Merchandise shipped from a domestic port, but undelivered at the foreign 
destination and returned, shall be manifested as ``Undelivered-to be 
returned to original foreign destination,'' if such a return is 
intended. The port director may issue a permit to retain the merchandise 
on board, or he may, upon written application of the steamship company, 
issue a permit on a Delivery Ticket, Customs Form 6043, allowing the 
merchandise to be transferred to another vessel for return to the 
original foreign destination. No charge shall be made against the bond 
on Customs Form 301, containing the bond conditions relating to 
international carriers set forth in Sec. 113.64 of this chapter. The 
items shall be remanifested outward and an explanatory reference of the 
attending circumstances and compliance with export requirements noted.

[28 FR 14596, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 77-255, 42 FR 56321, 
Oct. 25, 1977; T.D. 85-123, 50 FR 29952, July 23, 1985; T.D. 95-77, 60 
FR 50010, Sept. 27, 1995; T.D. 00-22, 65 FR 16515, Mar. 29, 2000]