[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 19, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2005]

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

[CITE: 19CFR18.1]



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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES

 

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

              HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

 

PART 18_TRANSPORTATION IN BOND AND MERCHANDISE IN TRANSIT--Table of 

Contents

 

Sec.  18.1  Carriers; application to bond.









                           General Provisions



Sec.

18.1 Carriers; application to bond.

18.2 Receipt by carrier; manifest.

18.3 Transshipment; transfer by bonded cartman.

18.4 Sealing conveyances and compartments; labeling packages; warning 

          cards.

18.4a Containers or road vehicles accepted for transport under customs 

          seal; requirements.

18.5 Diversion.

18.6 Short shipments; shortages; entry and allowance.

18.7 Lading for exportation, verification of.

18.8 Liability for shortage, irregular delivery, or nondelivery; 

          penalties.

18.9 Examination by inspectors of trunk line associations or agents of 

          the Surface Transportation Board.

18.10 Kinds of entry.

18.10a Special manifest.



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              Immediate Transportation Without Appraisement



18.11 Entry; classes of goods for which entry is authorized; form used.

18.12 Entry at port of destination.



                       Shipment of Baggage in Bond



18.13 Procedure; manifest.

18.14 Shipment of baggage in transit to foreign countries.



  Merchandise in Transit Through the United States to Foreign Countries



18.20 Entry procedure; forwarding.

18.21 Restricted and prohibited merchandise.

18.22 Procedure at port of exit.

18.23 Change of destination; change of entry.

18.24 Retention of goods on dock; splitting of shipments.



Exportation From Customs Custody of Merchandise Unentered or Covered by 

 an Unliquidated Consumption Entry, or Merchandise Denied Admission by 

                             the Government



18.25 Direct exportation.

18.26 Indirect exportation.

18.27 Port marks.



                   Merchandise Transported by Pipeline



18.31 Pipeline transportation of bonded merchandise.



  Merchandise Not Otherwise Subject to Customs Control Exported Under 

                          Cover of a TIR Carnet



18.41 Applicability.

18.42 Direct exportation.

18.43 Indirect exportation.

18.44 Abandonment of exportation.

18.45 Supervision of exportation.



    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 19 U.S.C. 66, 1202 (General Note 3(i), 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States), 1551, 1552, 1553, 

1623, 1624;

    Section 18.3 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1565;

    Section 18.4 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1322, 1323;

    Section 18.7 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1557; 1646a;

    Section 18.10 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1557;

    Section 18.11 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1484;

    Section 18.12 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1448, 1484, 1490;

    Section 18.13 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1498(a);

    Section 18.14 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1498.

    Section 18.31 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1553a.



    Source: 28 FR 14755, Dec. 31, 1963, unless otherwise noted.



                           General Provisions





    (a)(1) Merchandise to be transported from one port to another in the 

United States in bond, except as provided for in paragraph (b) of this 

section, shall be delivered to a common carrier, contract carrier, 

freight forwarder, or private carrier bonded for that purpose, but such 

merchandise delivered to a common carrier, contract carrier, or freight 

forwarder may be transported with the use of facilities of other bonded 

or nonbonded carriers. For the purposes of this section, the term 

``common carrier'' means a common carrier of merchandise owning or 

operating a railroad, steamship, pipeline, or other transportation line 

or route. Only vessels entitled to engage in the coastwise trade (see 

Sec.  4.80 of this chapter) shall be entitled to transport merchandise 

under this section.

    (2) Merchandise to be transported from one port to another in the 

United States under cover of a TIR carnet (see part 114 of this 

chapter), except merchandise not otherwise subject to Customs control, 

as provided in Sec. Sec.  18.41 through 18.45, shall be delivered to a 

common carrier or contract carrier bonded for that purpose, but the 

merchandise thereafter may be transported with the use of other bonded 

or nonbonded common or contract carriers. The TIR carnet shall be 

responsible for liability incurred in the carriage of merchandise under 

the carnet, and the carrier's bond shall be responsible as provided in 

Sec.  114.22(d) of this chapter.

    (3) Merchandise to be transported from one port to another in the 

United States under cover of an A.T.A. or TECRO/AIT carnet (see part 114 

of this chapter) shall be delivered to a common carrier or contract 

carrier bonded for that purpose, but the merchandise thereafter may be 

transported with the use of other bonded or nonbonded common or contract 

carriers. The A.T.A. or TECRO/AIT carnet shall be responsible for 

liability incurred in the carriage of merchandise under the carnet, and 

the carrier's bond shall be responsible as provided in Sec.  114.22(d) 

of this chapter.



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    (b) Pursuant to Public Resolution 108, of June 19, 1936, (19 U.S.C. 

1551, 1551a) and subject to compliance with all other applicable 

provisions of this part, the port director, upon the request of the 

party in interest, may permit merchandise entered and examined for 

Customs purposes to be transported in bond between the ports named in 

the resolution by bonded cartmen or lightermen duly qualified in 

accordance with the provisions of part 112 of this chapter, if the port 

director is satisfied that the transportation of such merchandise in 

this manner will not endanger the revenue.



[28 FR 14755, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 71-70, 36 FR 4485, Mar. 

6, 1971; T.D. 71-263, 36 FR 20291, Oct. 20, 1971; T.D. 73-140, 38 FR 

13550, May 23, 1973; T.D. 78-99, 43 FR 13061, Mar. 29, 1978; T.D. 82-

116, 47 FR 27261, June 24, 1982; T.D. 82-145, 47 FR 35478, Aug. 16, 

1982; 47 FR 39478, Sept. 8, 1982; T.D. 84-149, 49 FR 28698, July 16, 

1984; T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 51254, Dec. 21, 1988; T.D. 96-18, 61 FR 6779, 

Feb. 22, 1996; T.D. 98-10, 63 FR 4167, Jan. 28, 1998]