[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 19, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2005]

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[CITE: 19CFR18.21]



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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.  18.21  Restricted and prohibited merchandise.



    (a) Merchandise subject upon importation to examination, 

disinfection, or further treatment under quarantines and Quarantine 

Division, Agricultural Research Service, Department of Agriculture, 

shall be released for transportation or exportation only upon written 

permission of, or under regulations issued by, that Bureau. (See 

Sec. Sec.  12.10 to 12.15 of this chapter.)

    (b) Narcotics and other articles prohibited admission into the 

commerce of the United States shall not be entered for transportation 

and exportation and any such merchandise offered for entry for that 

purpose shall be seized, except that exportation or transportation and 

exportation may be permitted upon written authority from the proper 

governmental agency and/or compliance with the regulations of such 

agency.

    (c) Articles in transit manifested merely as drugs, medicines, or 

chemicals, without evidence to satisfy the port director that they are 

non-narcotic, shall be detained and subjected, at the carrier's risk and 

expense, to such examination as may be necessary to satisfy the port 

director whether or not they are of a narcotic character. A properly 

verified certificate of the shipper, specifying the items in the 

shipment and stating whether narcotic or not, may be accepted by the 

port director to establish the character of such a shipment.

    (d) Explosives shall not be entered for transportation and/or 

exportation under a transportation and exportation entry, or an 

immediate transportation entry unless the importer has first obtained a 

license or permit from the proper governmental agency.



[28 FR 14755, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 84-77, 49 FR 13491, Apr. 

5, 1984; T.D. 99-27, 64 FR 13675, Mar. 22, 1999]