Title 19-Customs Duties CHAPTER I-Bureau of Customs, Department of the Treasury CHAPTER II—United States Tariff Commission Part 1 201 CROSS REFERENCES: 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. Department of State: See Foreign Relations, 22 CFR Chapter I. Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare: See Food 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, Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education and Welfare: See Public Health, Articles conditionally free, subject to a reduced rate, etc. Packing and stamping; marking; trade-marks and trade names; copyrights. Special classes of merchandise. Examination and measurement of certain products. Relief from duties on merchandise lost, stolen, destroyed, injured, aban- Transportation in bond and merchandise in transit. Part 52 3333 Regulations under Trading With the Enemy Act. 53 Importation free of duty of food, clothing, and medical, surgical, and other supplies under emergency proclamations of the President. 54 56 68 70 Certain importations free of duty during the war. Extensions of time pursuant to Proclamation of the President under section Importation of articles in connection with the International Trade Fair and Supplemental PUBLICATIONS: United States import duties (1952) and supplement, United States Tariff Commission. Digest of customs and related laws and of decisions thereunder (v. I-III), Treasury Department, 1935. Synopses of Treasury Decisions 1 to 18749, annual, 1868-1897. Treasury Decisions 18750—, semiannual, v. 1—, 1898— (these volumes also include reappraisement decisions and abstracts of other decisions). ABBREVIATIONS: The following abbreviations are used in this chapter: 'B. Degrees Baumé. B. C. L. Bureau circular letter. C. Centigrade. F.-Fahrenheit. I. R. C.=Internal Revenue Code. I. T. Immediate transportation. S. Degrees sugar. T. D. Treasury Decision. 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 31; Title 33, Chapter I; Title 46, Chapter I. AUTHORITY: §§ 1.1 to 1.9 issued under R. S. 161, 251, sec. 624, 46 Stat. 759; 5 U. S. C. 22, 19 U. S. C. 66, 1624. Statutory provisions interpreted or applied and special rule making authority are cited to text in parentheses. § 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 Treas ury,' or by act of Congress, at which a customs officer is assigned with author " 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. C. 2), (1) to rearrange, by consolidation or other wise, 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. |