Terms Used In 15 CFR Part 241 - Barrels for Fruits, Vegetables and Other Dry Commodities, and for Cranberries

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• CBP: means U. See 19 CFR 101.1
• Country: means the political entity known as a nation. See 19 CFR 134.1
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• port director: means the director of that port of entry. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• 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
• Zone status: means the status of merchandise admitted to a zone, i. See 19 CFR 146.1