---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 C.F.R. § 142.17"
title: "19"
number: "142.17"
heading: "One entry summary for multiple entries."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/19/142.17"
---

# §142.17. One entry summary for multiple entries.

- (a) **Requirements.** Except as provided in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, the Center director may permit the filing of one entry summary for merchandise the subject of separate entries if:
  - (1) The merchandise has the same country of exportation, and the same country of origin,
  - (2) The merchandise arrives by land, by the same vessel or by the same air carrier,
  - (3) The merchandise is consigned to the same consignee,
  - (4) The time between the date of the first entry and the date of the last entry does not exceed 1 week,
  - (5) The entry summary document is filed within 10 working days from the date of the first entry, and
  - (6) **Each entry is identified separately by entry number on the entry summary.**
- (b) **Merchandise not eligible.** One entry summary shall not be used for multiple entries of the following:
  - (1) Quota-class merchandise,
  - (2) Prohibited merchandise,
  - (3) Merchandise subject to restrictions which require processing and documentation more frequently than on a weekly basis,
  - (4) Merchandise for which liquidation has been withheld, and
  - (5) Merchandise classifiable under the same Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States subheading number, to the eight-digit level having different rates of duty for which entries or immediate transportation entries have been filed. However, this provision is not applicable in the following circumstances:
    - (i) **Entries.** Entries may be consolidated if the time of entry is:
      - (A) Before the date of change in rate of duty, or
      - (B) **On or after the date of change in rate of duty.**
    - (ii) **Immediate transportation entries.** Immediate transportation entries may be consolidated if the date of acceptance is:
      - (A) Before the date of change in the rate of duty, or
      - (B) **On or after the date of change in rate of duty.**
- (c) **Entry documentation not in proper form.** If an entry summary covering multiple entries refers to entry documentation which is not in proper form, the entry summary and the entry documentation shall be returned for correction.

## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. 79-221, 44 FR 46821, Aug. 9, 1979, as amended by T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 51262, Dec. 21, 1988]

### Authority

Authority: 19 U.S.C. 66, 1448, 1484, 1624.

### Source

Source: T.D. 79-221, 44 FR 46821, Aug. 9, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[T.D. 79-221, 44 FR 46821, Aug. 9, 1979, as amended by T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 51262, Dec. 21, 1988]