Article 713 of these regulations. Duties will be estimated on the foreign market value of the goods, and the consignee or agent shall give bond in a penal sum equal to double the value of the goods, with the duties, if any, added, such bond being conditioned for the exportation of the merchandise within six months from date of entry. ART. 736. After entry has been made and bond given the proceedings indicated in articles 715 to 720, inclusive, of these regulations will be followed. CHAPTER X. MERCHANDISE IN TRANSIT TO MEXICO. T. D. 8411, 9686. ARTICLE 737. All merchandise arriving at the port of R.S., 3002, 3005. Brownsville, in Texas, or any other port specially desig nated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and destined for places in Mexico, may be entered at the custom-house and conveyed in transit, through the United States, without the payment of duties. ART. 738. The following are designated as ports from which import merchandise may be shipped in bond in transit through the United States to Mexico by routes prescribed from time to time by the Department, namely: Baltimore, Boston, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Detroit, Eagle Pass, El Paso, Galveston, Laredo, New Orleans, New York, Nogales, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, and Wilmington, Cal. 9619, 11669. ART. 739. On the arrival at any of the above ports of T.D.6973, 7893, merchandise from foreign ports, which appears, by the invoice, bill of lading, and manifest, or other satisfactory evidence, to have been shipped to such port for immediate transit and exportation to ports in Mexico outside the Free Zone, the consignee or his agent may make a sworn entry, in triplicate (Form No. 60, changed as to destination), giving bond (Cat. No. 757, modified to meet T.D. 15771. the case) in a penal sum of double the estimated duties. ART. 740. The collector will then issue a permit (Form 64) for the delivery of the merchandise to the car designated in the entry, except such as is to be corded, sealed, or branded. ART. 741. Entire cars, or compartments separated with strong closed partitions from the rest of the car, must be used, and must be fastened and sealed by a customs officer before departure from the port of importation, and so remain until their arrival at the port of exportation. ART. 742. Bulky merchandise which can not be put in locked or sealed cars may be carried on platform cars. If such merchandise is in packages, boxes, or casks and can not be identified by the description in the manifest, the collector shall require the packages, etc., to be corded and sealed by and at the expense of the owner. Cigars in small boxes must be packed in cases before being corded and sealed, and the number of holes in casks or other packages containing wines, malt liquors, or distilled spirits must be legibly branded on the casks or packages and the holes must be sealed. ART. 743. Cording, sealing, and branding, when required, may be done on board the importing vessel, or on the dock if it can be done there with safety to the revenue, but if not, it will be done in a bonded warehouse, to which the goods will be taken under permit (Form 65) and from which they will be sent to the car for transportation under a general permit (Form 64). The labor attending such proceedings must be performed and the expense paid by the owner before the delivery of the goods for shipment, and the fact of the cording, sealing, or branding must be noted on the entry. ART. 744. Transfers to the bonded warehouse and to the car must be made by designated customs draymen, at the expense of the owner of the goods. ART. 745. The collector will send two of the entries to the surveyor with an order (Form 66) to an inspector to superintend the lading of the goods. The packages will be examined by the inspectors as they are laden for transportation, to see if they agree with the description contained in the entry, and are corded, sealed, or branded as required. Such packages as do not so agree or are not properly corded, sealed, or branded will be detained by the inspector and reported to the collector, who will treat them as importations not intended for transit. Upon completion of the lading the inspector will make return (Form 67), attached to each entry, on receipt of which the collector will send duplicate copy of the entry to the naval officer (if any) and triplicate by mail to the collector at the frontier port through which the exportation is to be made. ART. 746. A duplicate manifest (Form 68) of the merchandise laden on board each car must be prepared by the shipper, signed by the transportation company, certified by the inspector, and one copy given to the conductor of the car conveying the merchandise. The other copy is to be filed in the collector's office. ART. 747. On arrival at the frontier port, the conductor shall deliver the manifest to the collector, who shall, if the goods are in a sealed car, remove the seals and compare the goods with the manifest and with the entry, if it has been received: Provided, however, That where the seals placed upon the car at the port where the goods. were laden are found intact on arrival at the frontier port, the proper customs officer may, after examination of the seals, if satisfied that they have not been tampered with and that the contents of the car have not been disturbed, allow such cars to proceed, without opening, to destination. If the goods are not in a sealed car, the packages must be compared with the manifest, and the cording, sealing, and branding must be examined. If the packages agree with the manifest, and the cords, seals, and brands are intact, the collector shall deliver the goods for exportation. If the goods do not agree with the manifest, or if there is reason to suspect fraud, the collector shall detain them, report the facts to the Secretary of the Treasury, and notify the collector at the port of shipment. The entry sent to the frontier port by mail will, when received, be compared with the manifest, and if it appears that the merchandise described therein has been inspected and delivered to be forwarded to its foreign destination, the collector shall send a certificate (Form 70) to the collector at the port of shipment. ART. 748. For the cancellation of the bond, in addition R.S.,3045. to the certificate required in the preceding article, the exporter shall produce to the collector, within the time. prescribed in the bond, a landing certificate under the hand and seal of the collector or other chief revenue officer at the foreign port. ART. 749. If a landing certificate of a foreign consignee or foreign customs officer covers goods which were shipped from two or more ports in the United States for transit and export, the collector to whom it is produced shall, on application, make and certify an extract or extracts from it to cover the goods shipped from the other port or ports, in order to the cancellation of the bonds there given. Such extracts should be in the same form as the landing certificate, showing the different signatures, seals, and statements thereon, and should be a copy of so much of said landing certificate as relates to the merchandise covered by the bond the cancellation of which is desired. Transfers at Brazos de Santiago and Point Isabel will be supervised by customs officers, who shall examine each package and check it on the manifest, certifying thereon. to the facts. On arrival at Brownsville the merchandise will be compared with the manifest and entries. ART. 750. Merchandise entered as above may be trans T. D. 9619. ported partly by water and partly by railroad to Brownsville, El Paso, Laredo, and any other ports designated by the Secretary of the Treasury. In such cases the entire route must be covered by the bond of the carrier to whom the merchandise is delivered at the port of importation. Whenever it is desired to bond such a route, application must be made to the collector, describing the route and the means of transportation proposed to be used, and shall be in accordance with the general regulations in relation to common carriers' bonds. ART. 751. When merchandise is laden at a port of importation on board a vessel for transit under these regulations, special manifests (Form 68) of each consignment shall be prepared by the shipper, certified by the inspector who supervises the lading, and one copy delivered to the master of the vessel, to accompany the merchandise to its destination. At each port of transshipment the goods must be unladen, transshipped, and reladen, and cars sealed under the supervision of a customs officer, who shall check the packages upon the manifest which accompanies the goods, and indorse the manifest as follows: The within-described merchandise found in proper condition, and transferred under my supervision to car No. of the — railroad (or vessel as the case may be, giving the name of the vessel and of the master). PORT OF Inspector. ART. 752. On transshipment from a vessel to cars a separate manifest (Form 69) for each car shall be prepared by the owner of the merchandise or his agent, which shall be certified by the inspector and delivered, together with the manifest received by the vessel, to the conductor to accompany the goods. FORM NO. 64 (OLD No. 36). Transit to Mexico-Delivery permit. PORT OF : You will deliver to the surveyor for transit and exportation by -,' imported into this district on the To the INSPECTOR AT the day of to 1 Describe merchandise. "If by vessel, insert master's name. |