[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR41.85a]

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            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 41_IMPORTATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND CIGARETTE PAPERS AND TUBES--Table 
 
Subpart F_Tobacco Products and Cigarette Papers and Tubes, Imported Into 
                    or Returned to the United States
 
Sec.  41.85a  Release from customs custody of returned articles.

    (a) Domestically produced tobacco products (classifiable under item 
9801.00.80 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, 19 
U.S.C. 1202) exported from and returned to the United States without 
change to the product or the shipping container may be released, under 
the bond of the manufacturer or export warehouse proprietor to whom such 
articles are released, from customs custody in the United States without 
payment of that part of the duty attributable to the internal revenue 
tax for delivery to the factory of any tobacco products manufacturer or 
to the permit premises of an export warehouse proprietor.
    (b) Domestically produced cigarette papers and tubes (classifiable 
under item 9801.00.80 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States, 19 U.S.C. 1202) exported from and returned to the United States 
without change to the product or the shipping container may be released 
from customs custody in the United States without payment of that part 
of the duty attributable to the internal revenue tax for delivery, under 
the bond of the manufacturer to whom such articles are released, to the 
factory of:
    (1) A manufacturer of cigarette papers and tubes; or
    (2) A manufacturer of tobacco products solely for use in the 
manufacture of cigarettes.
    (c) Releases under this section must be in accordance with the 
procedures set forth in Sec.  41.86. Once released, the tobacco products 
and cigarette papers and tubes will be subject to the tax and all other 
provisions of 26 U.S.C. chapter 52, and, as applicable, subject to the 
provisions of the regulations in part 40 of this chapter as if they had 
not been

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exported or otherwise removed from internal revenue bond.

(72 Stat. 1418, as amended; 26 U.S.C. 5704)

[T.D. ATF-422, 64 FR 71949, Dec. 22, 1999. Redesignated and amended by 
T.D. TTB-16, 69 FR 52424, 52425, Aug. 26, 2004]