14 CFR § 297.1 - Purpose.

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title: "14 CFR § 297.1 - Purpose."
title_number: 14
title_name: "Aeronautics and Space"
section_number: "297.1"
section_name: "Purpose."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "ECONOMIC REGULATIONS"
part_number: "297"
part_name: "FOREIGN AIR FREIGHT FORWARDERS AND FOREIGN COOPERATIVE SHIPPERS ASSOCIATIONS"
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last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "49 U.S.C. Chapters 401, 417."
regulatory_source: "ER-1159, 44 FR 69635, Dec. 4, 1979, unless otherwise noted."
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# 297.1 Purpose.

This part establishes registration procedures and operating rules for foreign air carriers that engage indirectly in interstate or foreign air transportation of property. It relieves these carriers from certain provisions of Subtitle VII of Title 49 of the United States Code (Transportation), and establishes simplified reports for them.

[ER-1294, 47 FR 19684, May 7, 1982, as amended at 60 FR 43527, Aug. 22, 1995]