[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR95.5]

[Page 529-530]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 95_SANITARY CONTROL OF ANIMAL BYPRODUCTS (EXCEPT CASINGS), AND 
 
Sec. 95.5  Untanned hides and skins; requirements for unrestricted entry.

    Untanned hides and/or skins of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, other 
ruminants, and swine which do not meet the conditions of requirements 
specified in any one of paragraphs (a) to (e) of this section shall not 
be imported except subject to handling and treatment in accordance with 
Sec. 95.6 after arrival at the port of entry:
    (a) Hides or skins originating in and shipped directly from a region 
not declared by the Secretary of Agriculture to be infected with foot-
and-mouth disease or rinderpest may be imported without further 
restriction.
    (b) Hides or skins may be imported without other restriction if 
found upon inspection by an inspector, or by certificate of the shipper 
or importer satisfactory to said inspector, to be hard dried hides or 
skins.
    (c) Abattoir hides or skins taken from animals slaughtered under 
national government inspection in a region\1\ and in an abattoir in 
which is maintained an inspection service determined by the Secretary of 
Agriculture to be adequate to assure that they have been removed from 
animals found at time of slaughter to be free from anthrax, foot-and-
mouth disease, and rinderpest, and to assure further the identity of 
such materials until loaded upon the transporting vessel, may be 
imported without other restriction if accompanied by a certificate 
bearing the seal of the proper department of such national government 
and signed

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by an official veterinary inspector of such region showing that the 
therein described hides or skins were taken from animals slaughtered in 
such specified abattoir and found free from anthrax, foot-and-mouth 
disease, and rinderpest.
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    \1\ Names of regions of this character will be furnished upon 
request to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary 
Services, National Center for Import-Export, 4700 River Road Unit 38, 
Riverdale, Maryland 20737-1231.
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    (d) Hides or skins may be imported without other restriction if 
shown upon inspection by an inspector, or by certificate of the shipper 
or importer satisfactory to said inspector, to have been pickled in a 
solution of salt containing mineral acid and packed in barrels, casks, 
or tight cases while still wet with such solution.
    (e) Hides or skins may be imported without other restriction if 
shown upon inspection by an inspector, or by certificate of the shipper 
or importer satisfactory to said inspector, to have been treated with 
lime in such manner and for such period as to have become dehaired and 
to have reached the stage of preparation for immediate manufacture into 
products ordinarily made from rawhide.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0579-0015)

[28 FR 5981, June 13, 1963, as amended at 48 FR 57472, Dec. 30, 1983; 62 
FR 56024, Oct. 28, 1997]