Terms Used In CFR > Title 19 > Chapter I > Part 146 > Subpart D - Status of Merchandise in a Zone

• Act: means the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• 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
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Merchandise: includes goods, wares and chattels of every description, except prohibited merchandise. See 19 CFR 146.1
• port director: means the director of that port of entry. See 19 CFR 146.1
• 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
• 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
• Zone status: means the status of merchandise admitted to a zone, i. See 19 CFR 146.1