[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: 19CFR148.22]

[Page 141]
 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 148--PERSONAL DECLARATIONS AND EXEMPTIONS--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart C--Examination of Baggage and Collection of Duties and Taxes
 
Sec. 148.22  Examination of air travelers' baggage in foreign territory.

    (a) Examination and surrender of declaration. When places have been 
established in a foreign country where U.S. Customs officers have been 
stationed for the purpose of conducting Customs inspections and 
examinations (see Secs. 101.5 and 162.8 of this chapter), persons 
destined to the United States on flights shall present themselves to 
those officers for inspection and examination of their baggage which may 
be passed in accordance with Sec. 148.23 prior to boarding the flight. 
They shall comply with all U.S. Customs laws and other civil and 
criminal laws of the United States relating to importation of 
merchandise, including baggage, to the filing of false or fraudulent 
statements, and to the unlawful removal of merchandise from Customs 
custody, in the same manner as if the passengers, were arriving at an 
airport within the Customs territory of the United States. When baggage 
is examined in foreign territory, the baggage declaration shall be 
surrendered to the Customs officer at the airport of departure for the 
United States prior to boarding the flight.
    (b) Subsequently acquired articles. When a person whose baggage has 
been examined and passed in foreign territory in accordance with 
paragraph (a) of this section subsequently acquires additional articles 
prior to return to the United States, the Customs officer to whom the 
declaration was surrendered may permit the amendment of that declaration 
to include the additional articles.

[T.D. 73-27, 38 FR 2449, Jan. 26, 1973, as amended by T.D. 77-241, 42 FR 
54944, Oct. 12, 1977; T.D. 89-22, 54 FR 5076, Feb. 1, 1989]