[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR10.56]

[Page 122-123]
 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
   CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF 
              HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 10_ARTICLES CONDITIONALLY FREE, SUBJECT TO A REDUCED RATE, ETC.--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec. 10.56  Vegetable oils, denaturing; release.

    (a) Olive, palm-kernel, rapeseed, sunflower, and sesame oil shall be 
classifiable under subheadings 1509.10.20, 1509.10.40, 1509.90.20, 
1509.90.40, 1510.00.20, 1512.19.20, 1513.29.00, 1514.90.10, 1514.90.50,

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1515.50.00, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, if 
denatured abroad or under Customs supervision after importation but 
before release from Customs custody, at the request and expense of the 
importer, by a formula prescribed by Headquarters, U.S. Customs Service, 
or if by their method of production abroad they are rendered unfit for 
use as food or for any but mechanical or manufacturing purposes.
    (b) Each cask or package of oil claimed to have been before 
importation denatured or otherwise rendered unfit for use as food or for 
any but mechanical or manufacturing purposes shall be sampled and tested 
by an appraising officer.
    (c) Formulas prescribed by Headquarters, U.S. Customs Service, 
except proprietary mixtures, will be circulated to all Customs officers 
and will appear as abstracts of United States Customs Service decisions 
published in the weekly Customs Bulletins. Proprietary mixtures approved 
by the Commissioner of Customs will not be published but appropriate 
notice of their approval will be given to all Customs officers.
    (d) The Headquarters, U.S. Customs Service, will from time to time 
prescribe additional formulas, and will consider any formula for special 
denaturing that may be submitted.
    (e) The port director may, if he deems it advisable, require an 
importer requesting permission to use any authorized denaturant to 
submit to the appraiser an adequate sample of such denaturant, in order 
that the appraiser may report to the port director whether or not such 
denaturant is suitable for rendering the oil unfit for use as food or 
for any but mechanical or manufacturing purposes.
    (f) No such oil shall be released free of duty until the appraiser 
shall have made a special report that it has been properly denatured.

[28 FR 14663, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 66-182, 31 FR 11416, 
Aug. 30, 1966; T.D. 87-75, 52 FR 20066, May 29, 1987; T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 
51250, Dec. 21, 1988]

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