[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 19, Volume 2]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 19CFR145.37]



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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES

 

   CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF 

        HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 145_MAIL IMPORTATIONS--Table of Contents

 

                Subpart D_Special Classes of Merchandise

 

Sec.  145.37  Articles for the U.S. Government.



    (a) Mail articles for copyright. Mail articles marked for copyright 

which are addressed to the Library of Congress, to the U.S. Copyright 

Office, or to the office of the Register of Copyrights, Washington, DC, 

shall be passed free of duty without issuing an entry.

    (b) Books, engravings, and other articles. Books, classifiable under 

subheading 4903.00.00, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 

(HTSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202), and engravings, etchings, and other articles 

enumerated in subheading 9808.00.10, HTSUS, shall be passed free of duty 

without issuing an entry when they are addressed to the Library of 

Congress or any department or agency of the U.S. Government.

    (c) Official Government documents. Other mail articles addressed to 

offices or officials of the U.S. Government, believed to contain only 

official documents, shall be passed free of duty without issuing an 

entry. Such mail articles, when believed to contain merchandise, shall 

be treated in the same manner as other mail articles of merchandise so 

addressed.



[T.D. 73-135, 38 FR 13369, May 21, 1973, as amended by T.D. 78-102, 43 

FR 14454, Apr. 6, 1978; T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 51263, Dec. 21, 1988; T.D. 91-

77, 56 FR 46115, Sept. 10, 1991]