[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: 19CFR148.1]



[Page 135-136]

 

                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES

 

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

        HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 148_PERSONAL DECLARATIONS AND EXEMPTIONS--Table of Contents

 

                      Subpart A_General Provisions

 

Sec.  148.1  Registration of effects to be taken abroad.





    (a) Persons who may use procedure. Any person, except a nonresident 

seaman, airman, or person engaged in similar employment, who intends to 

take effects of foreign origin abroad may register such articles before 

departure from the United States in order to facilitate their 

identification on return to the United States. Only articles of foreign 

origin having serial numbers or other distinctive, permanently affixed 

unique markings can be registered.

    (b) Procedures for registration. Applicants for registration of 

articles of foreign origin shall present the articles, together with a 

completed, but unsigned, Customs Form 4457, which may be obtained in 

advance of departure, to a Customs officer. After the Customs officer 

has examined the articles and verified their description, he shall have 

the applicant sign the form. The Customs officer shall then sign the 

form and return it to the applicant for presentation on return of the 

articles. Customs form 4455 may be required in any case in which Customs 

form 4457 will



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not adequately serve the purpose of registration.

    (c) Presentation on return and reuse. The form shall be presented to 

the Customs officer when the registered articles are returned to the 

United States. The form shall be valid for reuse as long as the document 

is legible to identify the registered articles.



[T.D. 82-102, 47 FR 24119, June 3, 1982, as amended by T.D. 91-35, 56 FR 

19260, Apr. 26, 1991]