[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR297.3]

[Page 248]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)
 
PART 297--FOREIGN AIR FREIGHT FORWARDERS AND FOREIGN COOPERATIVE 
SHIPPERS ASSOCIATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 297.3  Definitions.

    For purpose of this part:
    (a) Foreign air freight forwarder means a foreign indirect air 
carrier that is responsible for the transportation of property from the 
point of receipt to point of destination, and utilizes for the whole or 
any part of such transportation the services of a direct air carrier or 
its agent, of another foreign indirect cargo air carrier as defined in 
part 296 of this chapter.
    (b) Foreign cooperative shippers association means a bona fide 
asociation of shippers operating as a foreign indirect air carrier on a 
nonprofit basis that undertakes to ship property by air for the account 
of such association or its members, and utilizes for the whole or any 
part of such transportation the services of a direct air carrier or its 
agent, of a foreign indirect cargo air carrier as defined in part 296 of 
this chapter.
    (c) Direct air carrier means an air carrier or foreign air carrier 
directly engaged in the operation of aircraft under a certificate, 
regulation, order, or permit issued by the Department of Transportation 
or the Civil Aeronautics Board.
    (d) Foreign indirect air carrier means any person, not a citizen of 
the United States, who undertakes indirectly to engage in the air 
transportation of property.

[ER-1159, 44 FR 69635, Dec. 4, 1979, as amended by ER-1294, 47 FR 19684, 
May 7, 1982; Docket No. 47939, 57 FR 40103, Sept. 2, 1992]