Terms Used In 10 CFR Part 25 - Access Authorization

• Act: means the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Admit: means to bring merchandise into a zone with zone status. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• baggage and effects: as used in this subpart includes all articles which were in the possession of a person abroad, and are being imported in connection with his arrival, and which are intended for his bona fide personal or household use. See 19 CFR 148.81
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• CBP: means U. See 19 CFR 101.1
• Center director: means the person who manages their designated Center and is responsible for certain trade decisions and functions concerning that Center and the importers that are processed by that Center. See 19 CFR 101.1
• Country: means the political entity known as a nation. See 19 CFR 134.1
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Customs territory of the United States: includes only the States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. See 19 CFR 101.1
• 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. See 19 CFR 101.1
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Duties: means Customs duties and any internal revenue taxes which attach upon importation. See 19 CFR 101.1
• Exportation: means a severance of goods from the mass of things belonging to this country with the intention of uniting them to the mass of things belonging to some foreign country. See 19 CFR 101.1
• Foreign origin: refers to a country of origin other than the United States, as defined in paragraph (e) of this section, or its possessions and territories. See 19 CFR 134.1
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Importer: means the person primarily liable for the payment of any duties on the merchandise, or an authorized agent acting on his behalf. See 19 CFR 101.1
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Merchandise: includes goods, wares and chattels of every description, except prohibited merchandise. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Operator: is a corporation, partnership, or person that operates a zone or subzone under the terms of an agreement with the zone grantee. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Parliamentarian: The Parliamentarian is an advisor on the interpretation of legislative rules and procedures.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• port director: means the person who has jurisdiction within the geographical boundaries of their port of entry unless the regulations provide that particular trade functions or determinations are exclusively within the purview of a Center Director or other CBP personnel. See 19 CFR 101.1
• port director: means the director of that port of entry. See 19 CFR 146.1
• port of entry: 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 U. See 19 CFR 101.1
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• separate account: shall mean an account established and maintained by an insurance company pursuant to the laws of any state or territory of the United States, or of Canada or any province thereof, under which income, gains and losses, whether or not realized, from assets allocated to such account, are, in accordance with the applicable contract, credited to or charged against such account without regard to other income, gains or losses of the insurance company and the term "variable annuity contract" shall mean any accumulation or annuity contract, any portion thereof, or any unit of interest or participation therein pursuant to which the value of the contract, either prior or subsequent to annuitization, or both, varies according to the investment experience of the separate account in which the contract participates. See 17 CFR 270.0-1
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Shipment: means the merchandise described on the bill of lading or other document used to file or support entry, or in the oral declaration when applicable. See 19 CFR 101.1
• Subzone: is a special-purpose zone established as part of a zone project for a limited purpose, that cannot be accommodated within an existing zone. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Transfer: means to take merchandise with zone status from a zone for consumption, transportation, exportation, warehousing, cartage or lighterage, vessel supplies and equipment, admission to another zone, and like purposes. See 19 CFR 146.1
• United States: includes all territories and possessions of the United States, except the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Wake Island, Midway Islands, Kingman Reef, Johnston Island, and the island of Guam. See 19 CFR 134.1
• unusual circumstances: means our need to:

  (1) Search for and get the requested records from field offices or other locations;

  (2) Search for, get, and review many records identified in a single request;

  (3) Consult with another Federal agency having a substantial interest in the request; or

  (4) Consult with two or more FCA offices having a substantial interest in the request. See 12 CFR 602.5

• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• User: means a person or firm using a zone or subzone for storage, handling, or processing of merchandise. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Zone site: means the physical location of a zone or subzone. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Zone status: means the status of merchandise admitted to a zone, i. See 19 CFR 146.1