[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: 19CFR151.71]



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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 E_Wool and Hair

 

Sec.  151.71  Laboratory testing for clean yield.



    (a) Test and report by Customs laboratory. The clean yield of all 

general samples taken in accordance with Sec.  151.70 shall be 

determined by test in a Customs laboratory, unless it is found that it 

is not feasible to test such a sample and obtain a proper finding of 

percentage clean yield. A report of the percentage clean yield of each 

general sample as established by the test, or a statement of the reason 

for not testing a general sample, shall be forwarded to the port 

director.

    (b) Notification to importer. Where samples of wool or hair have 

been tested in a Customs laboratory and the port director has received a 

copy of the Laboratory Report, Customs Form 6415, the port director 

shall promptly provide notice of the test results by mailing a copy of 

that report to the importer.

    (c) Importer's request for retest. If the importer is dissatisfied 

with the port director's finding of clean yield, he may file with the 

port director a written request in duplicate for another laboratory test 

for percentage clean yield. Such request shall be filed within 14 

calendar days after the date of mailing of the notice of the port 

director's finding of clean yield. The request shall be granted if it 

appears to the port director to be made in good faith and if a second 

general sample as provided for in Sec.  151.70 is available for testing, 

or if all packages or, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Customs, an 

adequate number of the packages represented by the general sample are 

available and in their original imported condition.

    (d) Retest procedures. The second test shall be made upon the second 

general sample, if such a sample is available. If the second general 

sample is not available, the packages shall be reweighed, resampled, and 

tested in accordance with the provisions of this section. All costs and 

expenses of such operations, exclusive of the compensation of Customs 

officers, shall be borne by the importer, who may be present during such 

resampling and testing.

    (e) Request for commercial test. If the importer is dissatisfied 

with the results of the second laboratory test, or if a second 

laboratory test is not feasible, the wool or hair may be retested by a 

commercial laboratory in accordance with Sec.  151.73.



[T.D. 73-175, 38 FR 17470, July 2, 1973, as amended by T.D. 75-121, 40 

FR 23458, May 30, 1975; T.D. 93-52, 58 FR 37854, July 14, 1993]