Customs Search

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1. Under CMTA Section220, what is required to search a dwelling house through that authority?
2. What respect does CMTA Section223 require during a qualifying search and detention of a foreign-arriving traveler?
3. Does every officer automatically possess unrestricted customs police authority merely by wearing a uniform?
4. A storage warehouse has a security employee sleeping inside but is not principally used as a dwelling. Does that fact a…
5. An arriving traveler is searched under Section223. The officer says the provision requires no reasonable cause and perm…
6. Customs personnel present only an administrative mission order to search a building stipulated to be principally a priv…
7. An official conducts a customs search beyond any established statutory area or granted authority, then insists the word…
8. Distinguish CMTA treatment of non-dwelling storage premises and dwelling houses.
9. Explain the limits expressly stated for Section223 searches of foreign-arriving travelers.
10. Why must a customs-search question identify the officer’s authority and the relevant premises?
11. Does CMTA Section221 expressly authorize qualified customs police personnel to inspect a container found aboard a vesse…
12. Under CMTA Section221, may the search power include removal of a false bottom hiding dutiable or forfeitable goods?