[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: 19CFR12.14]



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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 12_SPECIAL CLASSES OF MERCHANDISE--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  12.14  Detention.



    (a) Port directors shall refuse release of all plants or plant 

products with respect to which a notice of prohibition has been 

promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture under any of the various 

quarantines. If an importer refuses to export a prohibited shipment 

immediately, the port director shall report the facts to the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, 

Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs and the United States attorney 

and withhold delivery pending advice from that Department.

    (b) In case of doubt as to whether any plant or plant product is 

prohibited, the port director shall detain it pending advice from the 

Department of Agriculture.



[28 FR 14710, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 78-99, 43 FR 13060, Mar. 

29, 1978]