[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR10.41]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
   CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF 
              HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 10_ARTICLES CONDITIONALLY FREE, SUBJECT TO A REDUCED RATE, ETC.
--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec. 10.41  Instruments; exceptions.

    (a) Locomotives and other railroad equipment, trucks, buses, 
taxicabs, and other vehicles used in international traffic shall be 
subject to the treatment provided for in part 123 of this chapter.
    (b) [Reserved]
    (c) Foreign-owned aircraft arriving in the United States shall be 
subject to the treatment provided for in part 122 of this chapter, 
unless entered under the provisions of Sec. Sec. 10.31, 10.183, or 
paragraph (d) of this section.
    (d) Any foreign-owned locomotive or other railroad equipment, truck, 
bus, taxicab, or other vehicle, aircraft, or undocumented boat brought 
into the United States for the purpose of carrying merchandise or 
passengers between points in the United States for hire or as an element 
of a commercial transaction, except as provided at Sec. Sec. 123.12 (a) 
and (b), 123.14(c), and 141.4(b)(4), is subject to treatment as an 
importation of merchandise from a foreign country and a regular entry 
for such vehicle, aircraft or boat will be made. The use of any such 
vehicle, aircraft, or boat without a proper entry having been made may 
result in liabilities being incurred under section 592, Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1592).
    (e) [Reserved]
    (f) Material for the maintenance or repair of international cables 
under the high seas, if requiring storage in special tanks for 
preservation, may be placed in tanks specially bonded for the purpose 
and withdrawn therefrom for high-seas installation without the payment 
of duty and without limitation of the storage period to the usual 3-year 
warehousing period. International cables laid under the territorial 
waters of the United States but not brought on shore in the United 
States shall be admitted without entry or the payment of duty. With 
respect to international cables laid under the territorial waters of the 
United States but brought on shore in the United States, only that part 
of the cable in the United States between the point of entry into the 
territorial waters of the United States and the first point of support 
on land in the United States shall be admitted without the payment of 
duty.

[28 FR 14663, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 70-121, 35 FR 8222, May 
26, 1970; T.D. 79-160, 44 FR 31956, June 4, 1979; T.D. 84-109, 49 FR 
19450, May 8, 1984; T.D. 88-12, 53 FR 9315, Mar. 22, 1988; T.D. 93-66, 
58 FR 44130, Aug. 19, 1993; T.D. 99-79, 64 FR 61205, Nov. 10, 1999]