---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 635.41"
title: "50"
number: "635.41"
heading: "Products denied entry."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/635.41"
---

# §635.41. Products denied entry.

- (a) [Reserved]
- (b) All shipments of tuna or tuna-like species, or their products, in any form, harvested in the ICCAT convention area by a fishing vessel that is required to be listed, but not listed on the ICCAT record of authorized vessels will be denied entry into the United States.
- (c) All shipments of tuna or tuna-like species, or their products, in any form, harvested in the ICCAT convention area by a fishing vessel listed on the ICCAT record as engaged in illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing will be denied entry into the United States.
- (d) All shipments of tuna or tuna-like species, placed in cages for farming and/or transshipment, harvested in the ICCAT convention area and caught by a fishing vessel included on the ICCAT list as engaged in illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing will be denied entry into the United States.
- (e) For the purposes of this section, it is a rebuttable presumption that any shipment containing swordfish, bluefin tuna, bigeye tuna, or their products offered for entry into the United States has been harvested by a vessel or vessels of the exporting nation.

## Notes

### Amendments

[69 FR 70400, Dec. 6, 2004, as amended at 70 FR 28218, May 17, 2005; 77 FR 52261, Aug. 29, 2012]

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

### Source

Source: 64 FR 29135, May 28, 1999, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[69 FR 70400, Dec. 6, 2004, as amended at 70 FR 28218, May 17, 2005; 77 FR 52261, Aug. 29, 2012]