CHAPTER I—Bureau of Customs, Department of the Treasury 1 CROSS REFERENCES: Regulations of the Department of Agriculture: See Titles 6, 7, 9 and 17. Bureau of Narcotics, Department of the Treasury: See Food and Drugs, 21 CFR Chapter II. Coast Guard, Department of the Treasury: See 33 CFR Chapter I, 41 CFR Chapter II, and Customs service in the Canal Zone: See Panama Canal, 35 CFR Part 9. Defense Department procurement: See National Defense, 32 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter A. 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: See Public Property and Works, 44 CFR Part 401. Foreign trade statistics: See Commerce and Foreign Trade, 15 CFR Part 30. Foreign-Trade Zones Board: See Commerce and Foreign Trade, 15 CFR Chapter IV. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice: See Aliens and Nationality, Importation of wildlife or eggs; and importation of feathers of wild birds: See Wildlife and Fisheries, 50 CFR Parts 13-14. Post Office Department (International Mail): See Postal Service, 39 CFR Chapter I. Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: See Public Health, NOTE: With respect to "Authority of Customs Officers," T.D. 56526, 30 F.R. 14317, Nov. 16, No action taken by any person pursuant to authority delegated to him by the Secretary of the Treasury (whether directly or by subdelegation) shall be invalid by reason of the fact that any statute or regulation, including any provision of the Customs regulations (19 CFR Ch. I), provides or indicates that such action shall be taken by some other person. Any action performed by a person pursuant to authority delegated to him by the Secretary of the Treasury (whether directly or by subdelegation) shall constitute compliance with any requirement of any statute or regulation which provides or indicates that it shall be the Articles conditionally free, subject to a reduced rate, etc. Packing and stamping; marking; trade-marks and trade names; copyrights. Part 24 25 26 30 31 32 54 56 Customs financial and accounting procedure. Customs bonds. Disclosure of information. Foreign-trade zones. Customhouse brokers. Trade Fairs. Certain importations temporarily free of duty. Extensions of time pursuant to Proclamation of the President und 318, Tariff Act of 1930. NOTE: Other regulations issued by the Department of the Treasury appear in Chapter I; Title 21, Chapter II; Title 26, Chapter I; Title 27; Title 33, Chapter I Chapter I. AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 1 under R.S. 161, 251, sec. 624, 46 Stat. 759, sec. 101, 76 Stat. 72; 5 U.S.C. 22, 19 U.S.C. 66, 1624, Gen. Hdnote. 11, Tariff Schedules of the United States, except as otherwise noted. SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 1 appear at 28 F.R. 14546, Dec. 31, 1963, unless otherwise noted. § 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,1 by order of the Secretary of the Treasury, or by act of Congress, at which a customs officer is assigned with author "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. 8. C. 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. ity 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 each district. The first-named port in each district (in capital letters) is the headquarters port, and the asterisk preceding the name of a port indicates that marine documents may be issued at such port. The districts and ports were created by the President's message of March 3, 1913, by which he communicated to Congress his reorganization of the Customs Service pursuant to the act of August 24, 1912 (Secs. 1, 2, 3, 44 Stat. 1381, as amended, 1382; 5 U. S. C. 281-281b), except that certain changes in such organization have been made by subsequent orders of the President or the Secretary of the Treasury. In the following list the orders issued since March 3, 1913, that affect existing districts or ports are cited in parentheses following the name of the district or port affected. This does not include the customs collestion 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) In addition to the customs collection districts listed which are within the customs territory of the United States, there is the customs collection district of the Virgin Islands (No. 51), the headquarters port of which is Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, and the subports of which are Cruz Bay, Coral Bay, Christiannsted, and Frederiksted. 4 Marine documents may be issued at Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, headquarters port of the customs collection district of the Virgin Islands (No. 51); at Washington, N.C., a customs station in the customs collection district of North Carolina (No. 15); at Biloxi, Miss., a customs station in the customs collection district of Mobile (No. 19); and at Houma, La., à customs station in the customs collection district of New Orleans (No. 20). Marine documents may also be issued at the Commercial Port of Guam, under the supervision of the collector of customs at Honolulu, Hawaii. Although the status of the port of Newark, N.J., was changed by T.D. 53786 to provide that it shall be operated as an integral part of the port of New York, N.Y., in the Customs Collection District of New York (No. 10), marine documents may continue to be issued at that port. |