---
kind: "unit"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
key: "chI/part4"
level: "part"
label: "Part 4"
heading: "Vessels in Foreign and Domestic Trades"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/19/chI-part4"
sections_count: 90
---

# Part 4 — Vessels in Foreign and Domestic Trades

Title 19 C.F.R. — Customs Duties › Chapter I — U.s. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security; Department of the Treasury

## Sections

- [§4.0. General definitions.](/cfr/19/4.0.md)
- [§4.1. Boarding of vessels.](/cfr/19/4.1.md)
- [§4.2. Reports of arrival of vessels.](/cfr/19/4.2.md)
- [§4.3. Vessels required to enter; place of entry.](/cfr/19/4.3.md)
- [§4.3a. Penalties for violation of vessel reporting and entry requirements.](/cfr/19/4.3a.md)
- [§4.4. Panama Canal; report of arrival required.](/cfr/19/4.4.md)
- [§4.5. Government vessels.](/cfr/19/4.5.md)
- [§4.6. Departure or unlading before report or entry.](/cfr/19/4.6.md)
- [§4.7. Inward foreign manifest; production on demand; contents and form; advance filing of cargo declaration.](/cfr/19/4.7.md)
- [§4.7a. Inward manifest; information required; alternative forms.](/cfr/19/4.7a.md)
- [§4.7b. Electronic passenger and crew arrival manifests.](/cfr/19/4.7b.md)
- [§4.7c. Vessel stow plan.](/cfr/19/4.7c.md)
- [§4.7d. Container status messages.](/cfr/19/4.7d.md)
- [§4.8. Preliminary entry.](/cfr/19/4.8.md)
- [§4.9. Formal entry.](/cfr/19/4.9.md)
- [§4.10. Request for overtime services.](/cfr/19/4.10.md)
- [§4.11. Sealing of stores.](/cfr/19/4.11.md)
- [§4.12. Explanation of manifest discrepancy.](/cfr/19/4.12.md)
- [§4.13. Reserved](/cfr/19/4.13.md)
- [§4.14. Equipment purchases for, and repairs to, American vessels.](/cfr/19/4.14.md)
- [§4.15. Fishing vessels touching and trading at foreign places.](/cfr/19/4.15.md)
- [§4.16. Reserved](/cfr/19/4.16.md)
- [§4.17. Vessels from discriminating countries.](/cfr/19/4.17.md)
- [§4.20. Tonnage taxes.](/cfr/19/4.20.md)
- [§4.21. Exemptions from tonnage taxes.](/cfr/19/4.21.md)
- [§4.22. Exemptions from special tonnage taxes.](/cfr/19/4.22.md)
- [§4.23. Receipt of payment.](/cfr/19/4.23.md)
- [§4.24. Application for refund of tonnage tax.](/cfr/19/4.24.md)
- [§4.30. Permits and special licenses for unlading and lading.](/cfr/19/4.30.md)
- [§4.31. Unlading or transshipment due to casualty.](/cfr/19/4.31.md)
- [§4.32. Vessels in distress; landing of cargo.](/cfr/19/4.32.md)
- [§4.33. Diversion of cargo.](/cfr/19/4.33.md)
- [§4.34. Prematurely discharged, overcarried, and undelivered cargo.](/cfr/19/4.34.md)
- [§4.35. Unlading outside port of entry.](/cfr/19/4.35.md)
- [§4.36. Delayed discharge of cargo.](/cfr/19/4.36.md)
- [§4.37. General order.](/cfr/19/4.37.md)
- [§4.38. Release of cargo.](/cfr/19/4.38.md)
- [§4.39. Stores and equipment of vessels and crews' effects; unlading or lading and retention on board.](/cfr/19/4.39.md)
- [§4.40. Equipment, etc., from wrecked or dismantled vessels.](/cfr/19/4.40.md)
- [§4.41. Cargo of wrecked vessel.](/cfr/19/4.41.md)
- [§4.50. Passenger lists.](/cfr/19/4.50.md)
- [§4.51. Reporting requirements for individuals arriving by vessel.](/cfr/19/4.51.md)
- [§4.52. Penalties applicable to individuals.](/cfr/19/4.52.md)
- [§4.60. Vessels required to clear.](/cfr/19/4.60.md)
- [§4.61. Requirements for clearance.](/cfr/19/4.61.md)
- [§4.62. Accounting for inward cargo.](/cfr/19/4.62.md)
- [§4.63. Outward cargo declaration; Electronic Export Information (EEI).](/cfr/19/4.63.md)
- [§4.64. Electronic passenger and crew member departure manifests.](/cfr/19/4.64.md)
- [§4.65. Verification of nationality and tonnage.](/cfr/19/4.65.md)
- [§4.65a. Load lines.](/cfr/19/4.65a.md)
- [§4.66. Verification of inspection.](/cfr/19/4.66.md)
- [§4.66a. Illegal discharge of oil and hazardous substances.](/cfr/19/4.66a.md)
- [§4.66b. Pollution of coastal and navigable waters.](/cfr/19/4.66b.md)
- [§4.66c. Oil pollution by oceangoing vessels.](/cfr/19/4.66c.md)
- [§4.67. Closed ports or places.](/cfr/19/4.67.md)
- [§4.68. Federal Maritime Commission certificates for certain passenger vessels.](/cfr/19/4.68.md)
- [§4.69. Shipping articles.](/cfr/19/4.69.md)
- [§4.70. Public Health Service requirements.](/cfr/19/4.70.md)
- [§4.71. Inspection of livestock.](/cfr/19/4.71.md)
- [§4.72. Inspection of meat, meat-food products, and inedible fats.](/cfr/19/4.72.md)
- [§4.73. Neutrality; exportation of arms and munitions.](/cfr/19/4.73.md)
- [§4.74. Transportation orders.](/cfr/19/4.74.md)
- [§4.75. Incomplete manifest; incomplete or missing Electronic Export Information (EEI); bond.](/cfr/19/4.75.md)
- [§4.76. Procedures and responsibilities of carriers filing outbound vessel manifest information via the AES.](/cfr/19/4.76.md)
- [§4.80. Vessels entitled to engage in coastwise trade.](/cfr/19/4.80.md)
- [§4.80a. Coastwise transportation of passengers.](/cfr/19/4.80a.md)
- [§4.80b. Coastwise transportation of merchandise.](/cfr/19/4.80b.md)
- [§4.81. Reports of arrivals and departures in coastwise trade.](/cfr/19/4.81.md)
- [§4.81a. Certain barges carrying merchandise transferred from another barge.](/cfr/19/4.81a.md)
- [§4.82. Touching at foreign port while in coastwise trade.](/cfr/19/4.82.md)
- [§4.83. Trade between United States ports on the Great Lakes and other ports of the United States.](/cfr/19/4.83.md)
- [§4.84. Trade with noncontiguous territory.](/cfr/19/4.84.md)
- [§4.85. Vessels with residue cargo for domestic ports.](/cfr/19/4.85.md)
- [§4.86. Intercoastal residue—cargo procedure; optional ports.](/cfr/19/4.86.md)
- [§4.87. Vessels proceeding foreign via domestic ports.](/cfr/19/4.87.md)
- [§4.88. Vessels with residue cargo for foreign ports.](/cfr/19/4.88.md)
- [§4.89. Vessels in foreign trade proceeding via domestic ports and touching at intermediate foreign ports.](/cfr/19/4.89.md)
- [§4.90. Simultaneous vessel transactions.](/cfr/19/4.90.md)
- [§4.91. Diversion of vessel; transshipment of cargo.](/cfr/19/4.91.md)
- [§4.92. Towing.](/cfr/19/4.92.md)
- [§4.93. Coastwise transportation by certain vessels of empty vans, tanks, and barges, equipment for use with vans and tanks; empty instruments of international traffic; stevedoring equipment and material; procedures.](/cfr/19/4.93.md)
- [§4.94. Yacht privileges and obligations.](/cfr/19/4.94.md)
- [§4.94a. Large yachts imported for sale.](/cfr/19/4.94a.md)
- [§4.95. Records of entry and clearance of vessels.](/cfr/19/4.95.md)
- [§4.96. Fisheries.](/cfr/19/4.96.md)
- [§4.97. Salvage vessels.](/cfr/19/4.97.md)
- [§4.98. Navigation fees.](/cfr/19/4.98.md)
- [§4.99. Forms; substitution.](/cfr/19/4.99.md)
- [§4.100. Licensing of vessels of less than 30 net tons.](/cfr/19/4.100.md)
- [§4.101. Prohibitions against Customs officers and employees.](/cfr/19/4.101.md)