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PART 4—VESSELS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC TRADES

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