[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: 19CFR151.51]



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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 151_EXAMINATION, SAMPLING, AND TESTING OF MERCHANDISE--Table of 

Contents

 

     Subpart D_Metal-Bearing Ores and Other Metal-Bearing Materials

 

Sec.  151.51  Sampling requirements.





    (a) General. Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, 

when metal-bearing ores and other metal-bearing materials which are 

classifiable under Chapter 26, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 

States (HTSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202), are entered for consumption or 

warehousing at the port of first arrival, they shall be sampled for 

assay and moisture purposes in accordance with Sec.  151.52. If proper 

facilities for weighing or sampling are not available at the port of 

entry, the merchandise shall be transported under bond to the place of 

sampling. The sampling or weighing of metal-bearing ores or materials at 

any place other than the port of entry shall be at the expense of the 

parties in interest.

    (b) Ores of low metal content. When, on the basis of invoice 

information, the nature of any available sample, knowledge of prior 

importations of similar materials, and other data, the port director is 

satisfied that metal-bearing ores entered under heading 2617, HTSUS, as 

containing less than 1 percent of metals dutiable under headings 2603, 

2607, and 2608, HTSUS, are properly entered, he may liquidate the entry 

on the basis of the assay information contained in the entry papers. 

However, the sampling and testing procedures prescribed in Sec. Sec.  

151.52 and 151.54 shall be followed at random intervals for verification 

purposes.



[T.D. 73-175, 38 FR 17470, July 2, 1973, as amended by T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 

51269, Dec. 21, 1988]