---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 C.F.R. § 162.0"
title: "19"
number: "162.0"
heading: "Scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/19/162.0"
---

# §162.0. Scope.


This part contains provisions for the inspection, examination, and search of persons, vessels, aircraft, vehicles, and merchandise involved in importation, for the seizure of property, and for the forfeiture and sale of seized property. It also contains provisions for Customs enforcement of the controlled substances laws. Additional provisions concerning records maintenance and examination applicable to U.S. importers, exporters and producers under the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement, the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, the Dominican Republic-Central America-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement, the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement, the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, the U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement, and the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement are contained in [Part 10](/cfr/19/part10.md), Subparts [H](/cfr/19/subpartH.md), [I](/cfr/19/subpartI.md), J, L, M, Q, R, S and T of this chapter, respectively.


## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. 98-56, 63 FR 32945, June 16, 1998, as amended by CBP Dec. 05-07, 70 FR 10884, Mar. 7, 2005; CBP Dec. 07-81, 72 FR 58522, Oct. 16, 2007; CBP Dec. 08-22, 73 FR 33691, June 13, 2008; CBP Dec. 11-01, 76 FR 708, Jan. 6, 2011; CBP Dec. 12-03, 77 FR 15959, Mar. 19, 2012; CBP Dec. 12-16, 77 FR 59081, Sept. 26, 2012; USCBP-2013-0040, 78 FR 63068, Oct. 23, 2013; CBP Dec. 15-03; 80 FR 7317, Feb. 10, 2015]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 19 U.S.C. 66, 1592, 1593a, 1624, 6 U.S.C. 101, 8 U.S.C. 1324(b). Section 162.3 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1581; Section 162.4 also issued under 39 U.S.C. 604, 605; Section 162.5 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1581, 49 U.S.C. 1509; Section 162.6 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1461, 1467, 1496; Section 162.7 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 482; Section 162.8 also issued under 9 U.S.C. 1629; Section 162.21 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 482, 1581, 1582, 1602; Section 162.22 also issued under 18 U.S.C. 546; 19 U.S.C. 1459, 1594, 1595a, 1701, 1703-1708; Section 162.23 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1595a(c). Section 162.32 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1603, 1610; Section 162.32 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1603, 1610; Section 162.43 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1606, 1608; Section 162.44 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1614; Section 162.45 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1607, 1608; Section 162.45a also issued under 21 U.S.C. 881; Section 162.46 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1609, 1611; Section 162.47 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1608; Section 162.48 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1606, 1607, 1608, 1612, 1613b, 1618; Section 162.49 also issued under 26 U.S.C. 5688; Section 162.50 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1611, 1705; Section 162.61 also issued under 21 U.S.C. 952, 953, 957; Section 162.62 also issued under 21 U.S.C. 952, 956; Sections 162.63, 162.64 also issued under 21 U.S.C. 881, 966; Section 162.65 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1584, 21 U.S.C. 960, 961. Sections 162.65 and 162.72 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1431(b) and 19 U.S.C. 1644. Sections 162.91 through 162.96 also issued under 18 U.S.C. 983.

### Source

Source: T.D. 72-211, 37 FR 16488, Aug. 15, 1972, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[T.D. 98-56, 63 FR 32945, June 16, 1998, as amended by CBP Dec. 05-07, 70 FR 10884, Mar. 7, 2005; CBP Dec. 07-81, 72 FR 58522, Oct. 16, 2007; CBP Dec. 08-22, 73 FR 33691, June 13, 2008; CBP Dec. 11-01, 76 FR 708, Jan. 6, 2011; CBP Dec. 12-03, 77 FR 15959, Mar. 19, 2012; CBP Dec. 12-16, 77 FR 59081, Sept. 26, 2012; USCBP-2013-0040, 78 FR 63068, Oct. 23, 2013; CBP Dec. 15-03; 80 FR 7317, Feb. 10, 2015]