[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR148.1]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 148--PERSONAL DECLARATIONS AND EXEMPTIONS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 148.1  Registration of effects to be taken abroad.


    (a) Persons who may use procedure. Any person, except a nonresident 
seaman, airman, or person engaged in similar employment, who intends to 
take effects of foreign origin abroad may register such articles before 
departure from the United States in order to facilitate their 
identification on return to the United States. Only articles of foreign 
origin having serial numbers or other distinctive, permanently affixed 
unique markings can be registered.
    (b) Procedures for registration. Applicants for registration of 
articles of foreign origin shall present the articles, together with a 
completed, but unsigned, Customs Form 4457, which may be obtained in 
advance of departure, to a Customs officer. After the Customs officer 
has examined the articles and verified their description, he shall have 
the applicant sign the form. The Customs officer shall then sign the 
form and return it to the applicant for presentation on return of the 
articles. Customs form 4455 may be required in any case in which Customs 
form 4457 will

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not adequately serve the purpose of registration.
    (c) Presentation on return and reuse. The form shall be presented to 
the Customs officer when the registered articles are returned to the 
United States. The form shall be valid for reuse as long as the document 
is legible to identify the registered articles.

[T.D. 82-102, 47 FR 24119, June 3, 1982, as amended by T.D. 91-35, 56 FR 
19260, Apr. 26, 1991]