Title 19-Customs Duties CHAPTER 1-Bureau of Customs, Department of the Treasury CHAPTER II—United States Tariff Commission Cross ReferenNCES: Regulations of the Department of Agriculture: See Titles 7 and 9. Bureau of Narcotics, Department of the Treasury: See Food and Drugs, 21 CFR Chapter II. Customs service in the Canal Zone: See Panama Canal, 35 CFR Part 9. Defense Department foreign procurement: See National Defense, 32 CFR Chapter I, Sub- Department of State: See Foreign Relations, 22 CFR Chapter I. Export clearance and destination control: See Commerce and Foreign Trade, 15 CFR Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare: See Food Foreign excess property importation: See Public Property and Works, 44 CFR Part 401. Importation of wild mammals, and wild birds or their eggs; and importation of feathers of Post Office Department (International Mail): See Postal Service, 39 CFR Chapter I. CHAPTER I-BUREAU OF CUSTOMS, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Part 123 + Customs districts and ports, and stations. Documentation of vessels. 4 Vessels in foreign and domestic trades. Customs relations with contiguous foreign territory. Air commerce regulations. Customs relations with insular possessions and Guantanamo Bay Naval Liability for duties; entry of imported merchandise. Importations by mail. Articles conditionally free, subject to a reduced rate, etc. Packing and stamping; marking; trademarks and trade names; copyrights. Examination and measurement of certain products. Appraisement. Relief from duties on merchandise lost, stolen, destroyed, injured, abandoned, or short-shipped. Liquidation of duties. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Cartage and lighterage. Protests and reappraisements. Transportation in bond and merchandise in transit. Customs warehouses and control of merchandise therein. Disposition of unclaimed and abandoned merchandise. Drawback. Enforcement of customs and navigation laws. Part 54 56 57 Certain importations temporarily free of duty. Extensions of time pursuant to Proclamation of the President under section 318, Tariff Act of 1930. Refund of import tax on manufactured sugar. SUPPLEMENTAL PUBLICATIONS: United States import duties (1958) and supplement, United States Tariff Commission. Digest of customs and related laws and of decisions thereunder (v. I-III), Treasury Department, 1935, and 1941 supplement. Synopses of Treasury Decision 1 to 20467, (1868–1898). Treasury Decisions 20468 -, (1899-) (these volumes also include reappraisement decisions and abstracts of other decisions). NOTE: Other regulations issued by the Department of the Treasury appear in Title 12, Chapter I; Title 21, Chapter II; Title 26, Chapter I; Title 27; Title 33, Chapter I; Title 46, Chapter I. § 1.1 Customs collection districts and ports. (a) A customs collection district is the geographical area under the customs jurisdiction of a collector of customs. (b) The terms "port" and "port of entry," as used in the regulations in this part, refer to any place designated by Executive order of the President,' by order of the Secretary of the Treasury,' or by act of Congress, at which a customs officer is assigned with authority to accept entries of merchandise, to collect duties, and to enforce the various provisions of the customs and navigation laws. (c) There are 46 customs collection districts of the United States.❜ The following is an alphabetical list of customs collection districts with their numbers and with a list of the ports in 1"The President is authorized from time to time, as the exigencies of the service may require, to rearrange, by consolidation or otherwise, the several customs-collection districts and to discontinue ports of entry by abolishing the same or establishing others in their stead: Provided, That the whole number of customs-collection districts, ports of entry, or either of them, shall at no time be made to exceed those established and authorized as on August 1, 1914, except as the same may thereafter be provided by law (Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 623, as amended; 19 U. S. C. 2) By virtue of the authority vested in him by section 1 of the act of August 8, 1950 (64 Stat. 419), the President, by Executive Order 10289, dated September 17, 1951 (3 CFR, 1951 Supp., p. 469), delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury the authority theretofore vested in the President by section 1 of the act of August 1, 1914, as amended (19 U. S. O. 2), (1) to rearrange, by consolidation or otherwise, the several customs-collection districts, (2) to discontinue ports of entry by abolishing the same and establishing others in their stead, and (3) to change from time to time the location of the headquarters in any customs-collection district as the needs of the service may require. This does not include the customs collection district of the Virgin Islands which, although under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury, has its own customs laws. (See sec. 36, 49 Stat. 1816; 48 U. S. C. 14061) |