Terms Used In CFR > Title 31 > Subtitle B > Chapter II > Subchapter A > Part 215 > Subpart C - Withholding Agreement

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Broker: means a customs broker. See 19 CFR 111.1
• CBP: means U. See 19 CFR 101.1
• Continuing broker education requirement: means an individual broker's obligation to complete a certain number of continuing education credits of qualifying continuing broker education, as set forth in subpart F of this part, in order to maintain sufficient knowledge of customs and related laws, regulations, and procedures, bookkeeping, accounting, and all other appropriate matters necessary to render valuable service to importers and drawback claimants. See 19 CFR 111.1
• Continuing education credit: means the unit of measurement used for meeting the continuing broker education requirement. See 19 CFR 111.1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Customs business: means those activities involving transactions with CBP concerning the entry and admissibility of merchandise, its classification and valuation, the payment of duties, taxes, or other charges assessed or collected by CBP on merchandise by reason of its importation, and the refund, rebate, or drawback of those duties, taxes, or other charges. See 19 CFR 111.1
• District: means the geographic area in which the parties excepted by the last sentence of § 112. See 19 CFR 112.1
• Executive Assistant Commissioner: means the Executive Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Trade at the Headquarters of U. See 19 CFR 111.1
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• 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
• private carrier: is a carrier of his own goods or merchandise. See 19 CFR 112.1
• Qualifying continuing broker education: means any training or educational activity that is eligible or, if required, has been approved for continuing education credit, in accordance with § 111. See 19 CFR 111.1
• Records: means documents, data and information referred to in, and required to be made or maintained under, this part and any other records, as defined in § 163. See 19 CFR 111.1
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Triennial period: means a period of three years commencing on February 1, 1985, or on February 1 in any third year thereafter. See 19 CFR 111.1
• 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