[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
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[CITE: 21CFR1312.15]

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                         TITLE 21-FOOD AND DRUGS
 
   CHAPTER II--DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 1312_IMPORTATION AND EXPORTATION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1312.15  Shipments in greater or less amount than authorized.

    (a) If the shipment made under an import permit is greater than the 
maximum amount authorized to be imported under the permit, as determined 
at the weighing by the District Director of the U.S. Customs Service, 
such difference shall be seized subject to forfeiture, pending an 
explanation; except that shipments of substances exceeding the maximum 
authorized amount by less than 1 percent may be released to the importer 
upon the filing by him of an amended import permit. If the substance is 
included in Schedule I, it will be summarily forfeited to the 
Government.
    (b) If the shipment made under the permit is less than the maximum 
amount authorized to be imported under the permit as determined at the 
weighing by the District Director of the U.S. Customs Service, such 
difference, when ascertained by the Administration, shall be recredited 
to the tentative allotment against which the quantity covered by the 
permit was charged, and the balance of any such tentative allotment with 
any such recredits will remain available to the importer to whom made 
(unless previously revoked in whole or in part), for importations 
pursuant to any permit or permits as are requested and issued during the 
remainder of the calendar year to which the allotment is applicable. No 
permit shall be issued for importation of a quantity of controlled 
substances as a charge against the tentative allotment for a given 
calendar year, after the close of such calendar year, unless the 
Director of the Administration decides to make an exception for good 
cause shown.

[36 FR 7815, Apr. 24, 1971. Redesignated at 38 FR 26609, Sept. 24, 1973, 
and amended at 46 FR 28841, May 29, 1981]