[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: 19CFR4.40]



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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 4_VESSELS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC TRADES--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  4.40  Equipment, etc., from wrecked or dismantled vessels.



    Ship's or sea stores, supplies, and equipment of a vessel wrecked 

either in the waters of the United States or outside such waters, on 

being recovered and brought into a United States port, and like articles 

landed from a vessel dismantled in a United States port



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shall be subject to the same Customs treatment as would apply if the 

articles were landed from a vessel arriving in the ordinary course of 

trade. Parts of the hull and fittings recovered from a vessel which 

arrived in the United States in the course of navigation and was wrecked 

in the waters of the United States or was dismantled in this country are 

free of duties and import taxes, but if such articles are recovered from 

vessels outside the waters of the United States and brought into a 

United States port, they shall be treated as imported merchandise.