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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
the consignee shall desire to enter into the bonded warehouses a part only of
the goods mentioned in that document, he will present to the custom-house a
petition in triplicate, as per model 41, copying that part of the clearance
petition which refers only to the goods destined to be warehoused ; but in this
case no lot of goods can be broken up. The original clearance petition, after
a note has been made upon it by the custom-house, will be available for ordinary
importation purposes, but only with respect to the goods for which no warehousing
permit has been asked.
VIII. If, prior to the presentation of the ordinary clearance petition, the
consignee should decide to warehouse a part of the goods which have come
consigned to him and which are embodied in a single consular invoice, he will
present to the custom-house a set of ordinary clearance petitions for the goods
which he desires to have cleared immediately and a set of warehousing petitions,
in which mention will be made only of the goods that are to be warehoused.
In this case the breaking up of lots declared in the consular invoice
will be allowed, but not into quantities of less than one package.
Art. 417. Upon the arrival of the goods at the capital, they will be received
by the custom-house of importation of Mexico City in the form set forth in
Chapter XIII of these ordinances.
If the custom-house of entry has already examined the goods and assessed
the duties, the custom-house of importation will deliver them to the general
bonded warehouses, the rules of article 415 being observed.
In case the custom-house of entry should forward with the goods nothing
but the consular invoice, the custom-house of importation of Mexico City will
notify the owner or consignee at the capital, so that he may present his warehousing
petition according to model No. 45, and all the rules laid down in these
ordinances will be observed with regard to the presentation of clearance
petitions, examination of the goods, assessment of duties at the maritime
custom-houses, and other requisite formalities, until the packages shall be
warehoused.
Art. 418. The warehousing permit having been granted, the formalities
having been complied with, and the goods having been placed at the disposal
of the carriers, said carriers will at once proceed to convey them to their
destination, after having been admonished that in the event of their failing
to do so on the next available day, the goods will be subject to storage dues
in accordance with article 153, until a beginning is made in hauling them away,
and said operation may not be interrupted during the available days and hours
that it may be found necessary to devote thereto.
Art. 419. The year's time allowed by these ordinances for the warehousing
of goods will begin to run from the day on which a beginning is made in entering
them into the warehouses. At the expiration of that period the customhouse
will act as provided by article 397.
Art. 420. The custom-houses to whose jurisdiction are subject the Federal
bonded warehouses will be liable for the value of each package as declared in
the consular invoice, if, during the legal period allowed for the warehousing of
the goods, the latter be lost; but they shall in no manner be made liable for
the shrinkage or depreciation which goods may undergo, owing either to their
nature or the nature of their packing or to the action of time, nor for internal
breakages nor for damage wrought by insects or other noxious animals, nor
for the absence from packages of effects of which the existence has not been
proved before the same were warehoused, nor, in general, for damages or losses
due to unforeseen causes or force majeure.
Art. 421. Goods entered into the Federal bonded warehouses will be subject
to storage dues at the following rates :
During the first two months of the warehousing of the goods, 1 cent per day
for every 100 kilograms or fraction thereof.
During the third and fourth months, for the same quantity of kilograms or
fraction thereof, 2 cents per diem.
During the fifth and sixth months, on the same basis of weight, 3 cents per
diem.
From the seventh to the twelfth month, when the period allowed for the
warehousing of the goods ends, on the same basis of weight, 4 cents per diem.
This due will not apply isolatedly to each of the lots declared, but to the
aggregate weight of the packages comprised in a single operation.
Art. 422. Custom-houses will keep a special registry, according to model
No. 46, in which they will enter all the operations which they may authorize or
