Vessel Equipment Temporarily Landed for Repair

Résumé

This document amends the Customs Regulations to provide for the temporary landing in the United States of vessel equipment in need of repair, without requiring entry of that equipment under a Temporary Importation Bond (TIB). Instead, such equipment may be landed from a vessel for repair and then reladen aboard the same vessel, subject to Customs issuance of a special permit or license for the landed equipment, under an International Carrier Bond. Uncertainty had existed as to whether the relading of repaired equipment on vessels departing the United States would satisfy the TIB requirement that such merchandise be exported. The amendment eliminates this uncertainty while still allowing Customs adequate control over vessel equipment that is landed for repair and thereafter reladen aboard the same vessel.