October 2024 — Question 43
If CBP has detained articles for bearing copying or simulating marks, all the following would enable the importer to obtain release of the articles EXCEPT:
- AIf this detention is the importer’s first offense, the importer can pay a fine equal to the value the articles would have had if they were genuine.✓ CBP's answer
- BThe recordant gives written consent to the importation and such consent is furnished to appropriate Customs officials.
- CThe objectionable mark is removed or obliterated as a condition to entry in such a manner as to be illegible and incapable of being reconstituted.
- DThe articles of foreign manufacture bear a recorded trademark and the one-item personal exemption is claimed and allowed.
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§ 19 CFR 133.22(c)(3)§ 19 CFR 133.22(c)(1)§ 19 CFR 133.22(c)(4)§ 19 CFR 148.55
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