[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: 19CFR145.40]



[Page 87-88]

 

                        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.  145.40  Plant material imported for immediate exportation.



    Plant material may be imported by mail free of duty for immediate 

exportation by mail subject to the following regulations, which have 

been approved by the Department of Agriculture and the Postal Service. 

This procedure shall not affect the movement of plant material in the 

internal mails through the United States:

    (a) Permit for entry. Each shipment shall be dispatched in the mails 

from abroad, accompanied by a yellow and green special mail tag bearing 

the serial number of the permit for entry for immediate exportation or 

immediate transportation and exportation, issued by the U.S. Department 

of Agriculture, and also by the postal form of Customs declaration.

    (b) Place of inspection. Upon arrival, the shipment shall be 

detained by or



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redispatched to the postmaster at Washington, DC, Brownsville, Tex., 

Hoboken, NJ, Honolulu, Hawaii, Laredo, Tex., Miami, Fla., San Francisco, 

Calif., San Juan, P.R., San Pedro, Calif., or Seattle, Wash., as may be 

appropriate, according to the address on the green and yellow tag, and 

there submitted to the Customs officer and the Federal quarantine 

inspector. The merchandise shall be accorded special handling only at 

these cities, and under no circumstances shall it be permitted to enter 

the commerce of the United States.

    (c) Special handling. After inspection by the Customs and quarantine 

officers, and with their approval, the addressee or his authorized agent 

shall repack and readdress the mail package under Customs supervision; 

endorse and sign on the package a waiver of the addressee's right to 

withdraw the mail article from the mails; affix to the mail article the 

necessary postage; and comply with any other mailing and export 

requirements, after which the package shall be delivered under Customs 

supervision to the postmaster for exportation by mail in accordance with 

Sec.  145.71.

    (d) Entry not required. It will not be necessary to issue a Customs 

mail entry nor to require a formal entry of the shipment.



[T.D. 73-175, 38 FR 13369, May 21, 1973, as amended by T.D. 78-102, 43 

FR 14455, Apr. 6, 1978]