Area of jurisdiction

Domestic offices may conduct investigations in Canada
subject to such coordination procedures as may be estab-
lished by the Foreign Investigations Branch, head-
quarters.

Taiwan.

Gibraltar; Iceland; Ireland; and the United Kingdom,
including Channel Islands.

Belgium; France, including Corsica; Luxembourg; Monaco;
the Netherlands; Portugal; and Spain.

Austria; Czechoslovakia; Denmark; East Germany; Fin-
land; Liechtenstein; Norway; Poland; Sweden; Switzer-
land; the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; and West
Germany, including West Berlin.

Australia; Ceylon; Hong Kong; Malay Archipelago, includ-
ing Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia: New
Zealand; and all of the Asian continent east of the border
of Iran with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and nearby islands politically
part of states thereon, except for South Korea and the
eastern portion of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Albania; Bulgaria; Cyprus; Greece, including Crete; Hun-
gary; Italy, including Sardinia and Sicily; Malagasy
Republic; Malta; Romania; Yugoslavia; all of the African
continent and nearby islands politically part of states
thereon; and all of the Asian continent west of the border
of Iran with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan, including Asia Minor, Tur-
key, the Arabian Peninsula, and nearby islands politi-
cally part of states thereon.

Japan, including Ryukyu Islands.

Central America; Mexico; and South America, Domestic
offices may conduct investigations in Mexico subject to
such coordination procedures as may be established by
the Foreign Investigations Branch, Headquarters.

(b) Different but equivalent hours shall be observed if a difference is required for the maintenance of adequate service because of local conditions, is approved by the Commissioner of Customs, and a notice of the hours of business is prominently displayed at the principal entrance and in each public room of the Customs office.

(c) At each port or station where there is no full-time Customs employee, the hours during which the Customs office will be open for the transaction of general Customs business shall be fixed by the district director of Customs concerned with the approval of the regional commissioner of Customs, and notice thereof shall be displayed prominently at the principal entrance of the office.

(d) Each Customs office shall be open for the transaction of business on all State and local holidays occurring on days other than Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays. If a State or local holiday interferes with the performance of work in a Customs office by any Customs employee or employees, the appropriate principal field officer may excuse such employee or employees from duty without charge to leave.

(e) Customs services required to be performed outside a Customs office shall be furnished between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. (or between the corresponding hours at ports where different but equivalent hours are required for the maintenance of adequate service and are approved by the Commissioner of Customs) on all days when the Customs office is open for the transaction of general Customs business. In accordance with such instructions as the regional commissioner of Customs shall have issued from time to time and upon reasonable advance notice to the principal local officer concerned, such services may be furnished between the same hours on Saturdays.

(f) Where there is a regularly recurring need for Customs services outside the above-prescribed hours, and the volume and duration of the required services are uniformly such as to require, of themselves or in immediately consecutive combination with other essential

the 25th of December, or any other calendar day designated as a holiday by Federal statute or Executive order. If a holiday falls on Saturday, the day immediately preceding such Saturday will be observed (5 U.S.C. 6103 (b) (1)). If a holiday falls on Sunday, the following day will be observed.

customs activities of the port, the full time of one or more Customs employees, the necessary number of regular tours of duty to furnish such services on all days of the year except Sundays and national holidays may be established with the approval of the Commissioner of Customs.

(g) Customs services shall be furnished private interests otherwise than as specified in this section only in accordance with the provisions of § 24.16 of this chapter.

(E.O. 11582, Jan. 1, 1971; 84 F.R. 2957; 3 CFR Ch. II) [T.D. 66-161, 81 FR. 10668, Aug. 11, 1966, as amended by T.D. 69-95, 34 FR. 6375, Apr. 11, 1969; T.D. 73-64, 88 FR. 6069, Mar. 6, 1973]

(a) The Customs seal of the United States, consisting of the seal of the Department of the Treasury surrounded by an outer circle in which appears the words "Treasury" at the top and "U.S. Customs Service" at the bottom according to the design furnished by the Department of the Treasury, shall be impressed upon all official documents requiring the impress of a seal, provided that the Customs seal currently in offcial use, including the dies, rolls, plates, and like devices now in the possession of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, shall continue to be equally effective as the official seal of the United States Customs Service, and shall continue to be so used by each Customs officer and employee having possession of the device of the seal, until that particular device needs to be replaced and is replaced.

(b) The impress of the seal is not necessary on documents passing within the Customs Service. The seal shall be impressed on marine documents, and on landing certificates, certificates of weight, gauge, or measure, and similar classes of documents for outside interests.

(c) The official seal shall not be used in the manner of a notary seal to indicate authority to administer oaths. [31 FR 10668, Aug. 11, 1966, as amended by T.D. 74-181, 39 FR 24630, July 5, 1974]

(b) The Commissioner will issue identification cards in appropriate cases to principal field officers. Each principal field officer shall be the issuing officer for the employees under his jurisdiction.

(c) Special identification cards signed by the Commissioner, shall be issued to officers of the Office of Investigations. All officers of the Office of Investigations are authorized to carry weapons in the performance of their official duties, and specific authorization is therefore omitted from their identification cards. [TD. 72-211, 38 F.R. 16486, Aug. 15, 1972] [Reserved]

§ 1.10 § 1.11

Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth, unless: (a) The context in which they are used requires a different meaning, or (b) a different definition is prescribed for a particular part or portion thereof:

Duties. "Duties" means Customs duties and any internal revenue taxes which attach upon importation.

Date of entry. See § 141.68 of this chapter.

Date of exportation. See § 152.1(c) of this chapter.

Date of importation. "Date of importation" means, in the case of merchandise imported otherwise than by vessel, the date on which the merchandise arrives within the Customs territory of the United States. In the case of merchandise imported by vessel, the date on which the vessel arrives within the limits of a port in the United States with intent then and there to unlade shall be deemed the date of importation of that merchandise as to which there is such intent to unlade.

Entry or withdrawal for consumption. "Entry or withdrawal for consumption” means entry for consumption or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption.

Importer. "Importer” means the person primarily liable for the payment of any duties on the merchandise, or an authorized agent acting on his behalf. The term includes, as appropriate:

(1) The consignee,

(2) The importer of record,

(3) The actual owner if an actual owner's declaration and superseding bond has been filed in accordance with § 141.20 of this chapter, or

(4) The transferee if the right to withdraw merchandise in a bonded warehouse has been transferred in accordance

4.80 Vessels entitled to engage in coastwise trade.

4.80a Passengers on foreign vessels taken on board and landed in the United States.

4.81 Reports of arrivals and departures in coastwise trade.

4.81a Certain barges carrying merchandise transferred from another barge. 4.82 Touching at foreign port while in coastwise trade.

4.83 Trade between United States ports on the Great Lakes and other ports of the United States.

4.84 Trade with noncontiguous territory. 4.85 Vessels with residue cargo for domestic ports.

4.86 Intercoastal residue-cargo procedure; optional ports.

4.87 Vessels proceeding foreign via domestic ports.

4.88 Vessels with residue cargo for foreign ports.

4.89 Vessels in foreign trade proceeding via domestic ports and touching at intermediate foreign ports. Simultaneous vessel transactions. 4.91 Diversion of vessel; transshipment of cargo.

4.90

4.92 Towing.

4.93 Coastwise transportation by certain

vessels of empty vans, tanks, and barges, equipment for use with vans and tanks; empty instruments of international traffic; stevedoring equipment and material; procedures. GENERAL

4.94 Yacht privileges and obligations. 4.95 Records of entry and clearance of vessels.

4.96

Fisheries.

4.97 Salvage vessels.

4.98 Navigation fees.

Sec.

4.99 Forms; substitution.

4.100 Licensing of vessels of less than 30 net tons.

AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 4 issued under R.S. 251, secs. 2, 3, 23 Stat. 118, as amended, 119, as amended, sec. 624, 46 Stat. 759, sec. 101, 76 Stat. 72; 5 U.S.C. 301, 19 U.S.C. 66, 1624, 46 U.S.C. 2, 3 General Hdnote 11, Tariff Schedules of the United States, unless otherwise noted.

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 4 appear at 28 FR 14596, Dec. 31, 1963, unless otherwise noted.

NOTE 1: By T.D. 528886, 16 F.R. 12763, Dec. 20, 1951, the Commissioner of Customs waived compliance with the provisions of the navigation laws administered by the United States Customs Service to the extent necessary to permit the operation of vessels requisitioned by the United States for emergency evaluation.

NOTE 2: By Treasury Decision 53449, 19 F.R. 1420, Mar. 13, 1954, the Commissioner of Customs waived compliance with the navigation laws relating to clearances of vessels to the extent necessary to permit:

(1) The clearance for an unnamed destination of any vessel owned by, Governmentallocated to, or chartered by the Military Sea Transportation Service of the Department of Defense, other than those used on berthterm (shipping contract or Government billof-lading) arrangements, which is certified by the Commander of the Military Sea Transportation Service or his duly authorized representative as (a) in ballast or laden only with Department of Defense cargo, or (b) having on board passengers, each of whom is either a member of the Armed Forces or a civilian noncombatant employed by, serving with, or accompanying the Armed Forces of the United States;

(2) The clearance of any vessel with Department of Defense cargo on the basis of a manifest which describes that cargo only as of Department of

(Approximate quantity) Defense cargo."

NOTE 3: By Treasury Decision 53892, 20 FR. 6792, Sept. 15, 1955, the Commissioner of Customs waived compliance with sections 289, 292, 316, and 883, title 46, United States Code, to the extent necessary to permit any dredge, tug, scow, barge, or other vessel of Canadian registry or flag, whether or not Canadian-built, to be employed in dredging, towing, the transportation of merchandise or passengers, or any combination of such activities, in spoil disposal operations or channel excavations for power purposes and in connection with the construction of the Iroquois Control Dam as a part of the St. Lawrence Power Project in territorial waters of the United States within the general areas (1) between points opposite Prescott, Ontario, and Doran Island and (2) between