Terms Used In CFR > Title 19 > Chapter I > Part 146 > Subpart B - Inventory Control and Recordkeeping System

• Activation: means approval by the grantee and port director for operations and for the admission and handling of merchandise in zone status. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Fungible merchandise: means merchandise which for commercial purposes is identical and interchangeable in all situations. See 19 CFR 146.1
• 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
• port director: means the director of that port of entry. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• 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
• Unique identifier: means the numbers, letters, or combination of numbers and letters that identify merchandise admitted to a zone with zone status. See 19 CFR 146.1
• User: means a person or firm using a zone or subzone for storage, handling, or processing of merchandise. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Zone lot: means a collection of merchandise maintained under an inventory control method based on specific identification of merchandise admitted to a zone by lot. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Zone status: means the status of merchandise admitted to a zone, i. See 19 CFR 146.1