Authority conferred to customs officers to inspect goods, means of transport and persons including their baggage within a customs territory and when entering and exiting customsâ zones. Harmonized System. A system set out in a systemized form coding, designations and description of goods including their payable customs duties.
Car Seats Gate-Checked or Checked as Luggage. Car seats are designed to withstand most motor vehicle crash forces. In general, the MACPS does not consider a gate-checked car seat or a car seat that is checked as luggage to be one that has experienced forces equivalent to a motor vehicle crash.
A 1973 study suggested that three-point (lap and shoulder) seat belts were more effective and less risky than air bags anyway. But as air-bag technology improved, automakers began to install them in more and more vehicles, and by the time the 1991 law was passed, they were a fairly common feature in many cars.