---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 C.F.R. § 148.87"
title: "19"
number: "148.87"
heading: "Officers and employees of, and representatives to public international organizations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/19/148.87"
---

# §148.87. Officers and employees of, and representatives to public international organizations.

- (a) **Exemption for baggage and effects.** The baggage and effects of the alien officers and employees of, or representatives of foreign governments, to the organizations designated by the President as public international organizations pursuant to section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act ([22 U.S.C. 288](/usc/22/288.md)), and the baggage and effects of their families, suites, and servants, shall be admitted free of duty and without entry under subheading 9806.00.15, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States ([19 U.S.C. 1202](/usc/19/1202.md)), but only upon the receipt in each instance of instructions from the United States Customs Service issued at the request of the Department of State.
- (b) **Designated public international organizations.** The President, by virtue of the authority vested in him by section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act of December 29, 1945 ([22 U.S.C. 288](/usc/22/288.md)), has designated certain organizations as public international organizations entitled to the free entry privileges of that statute. The following is a list of the public international organizations currently entitled to such free entry privileges and the Executive orders by which they were designated:

## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. 73-27, 38 FR 2449, Jan. 26, 1973]

### Authority

Authority: 19 U.S.C. 66, 1496, 1498, 1624. The provisions of this part, except for subpart C, are also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1202 (General Note 3(i), Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States). Section 148.21 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1461, 1462. Section 148.22 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1629; Sections 148.43, 148.51, 148.63, 148.64, 148.74 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1321; Section 148.55 also issued under 17 U.S.C. 602 and 19 U.S.C. 1526; Section 148.87 also issued under 22 U.S.C. 288.

### Source

Source: T.D. 73-27, 38 FR 2449, Jan. 26, 1973, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[T.D. 73-27, 38 FR 2449, Jan. 26, 1973]