19 CFR §141.111
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- (a)When required. Except where release is made directly to the carrier in accordance with § 141.11(b), no merchandise shall be released from Customs custody until a release order has been executed by the carrier, or, in the case of merchandise in a bonded warehouse, by the warehouse proprietor.
- (b)Form of release. The release order may be executed on any of the following documents:
- (1)[Reserved]
- (2)The official entry form;
- (3)A combined carrier's certificate and release order issued in accordance with § 141.11(a)(4); or
- (4)If a certified duplicate bill of lading or air waybill is used for entry purposes in accordance with § 141.11(a)(3), the carrier's release order may be endorsed thereon in substantially the following form:
- (c)Blanket release order. Merchandise may be released to the person named in the bill of lading or air waybill in the absence of a specific release order from the carrier, if the carrier concerned has filed a blanket order authorizing release to the owner or consignee in such cases. A carrier's certificate in the form shown in § 141.11(a)(4), may be modified and executed to make it a blanket release order for the shipments covered by a blanket carrier's release order under § 141.11(a)(5).
- (d)Qualified release order. In the case of merchandise which is entered for warehousing, for transportation in bond, for exportation, or is to be admitted to a foreign trade zone, the release order may be qualified as follows:
- (1)“For transfer to the bonded warehouse designated in the warehouse entry,” if the merchandise is entered for warehousing;
- (2)“For transfer to the bonded carrier designated in the transportation entry,” if the merchandise is entered for transportation in bond;
- (3)“For transfer to the carrier designated in the export entry,” if the merchandise is entered for exportation; or
- (4)“For transfer to the foreign trade zone designated in Customs Form 214,” if the merchandise is to be admitted to a foreign trade zone.