[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 4]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 14CFR297.3]



[Page 245]

 

                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)

 

PART 297_FOREIGN AIR FREIGHT FORWARDERS AND FOREIGN COOPERATIVE SHIPPERS 

ASSOCIATIONS--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec. 297.3  Definitions.



    For purpose of this part:

    (a) Foreign air freight forwarder means a foreign indirect air 

carrier that is responsible for the transportation of property from the 

point of receipt to point of destination, and utilizes for the whole or 

any part of such transportation the services of a direct air carrier or 

its agent, of another foreign indirect cargo air carrier as defined in 

part 296 of this chapter.

    (b) Foreign cooperative shippers association means a bona fide 

asociation of shippers operating as a foreign indirect air carrier on a 

nonprofit basis that undertakes to ship property by air for the account 

of such association or its members, and utilizes for the whole or any 

part of such transportation the services of a direct air carrier or its 

agent, of a foreign indirect cargo air carrier as defined in part 296 of 

this chapter.

    (c) Direct air carrier means an air carrier or foreign air carrier 

directly engaged in the operation of aircraft under a certificate, 

regulation, order, or permit issued by the Department of Transportation 

or the Civil Aeronautics Board.

    (d) Foreign indirect air carrier means any person, not a citizen of 

the United States, who undertakes indirectly to engage in the air 

transportation of property.



[ER-1159, 44 FR 69635, Dec. 4, 1979, as amended by ER-1294, 47 FR 19684, 

May 7, 1982; Docket No. 47939, 57 FR 40103, Sept. 2, 1992]