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all certificates and attestations that may be required from the Bureau.

DEPAKIMENT OF

COMMERCE

30.20

Carriers

General statement of requirement for the filing of manifests and Shipper's Export Declarations by carriers.

30.21 Requirements for the filing of manifests.

30.22 Requirements for the filing of Shipper's Export Declarations by departing carriers. 30.23 Requirements for the filing of Shipper's Export Declarations by pipeline carriers.

30.24 Clearance or departure of carriers under bond on incomplete manifest or Shipper's Export Declarations.

Subpart C-Special Provisions Applicable Under Particular Circumstances 30.30 Values for certain special types of transactions.

30.31 Identification of certain non-statistical and other unusual transactions. 30.32 Exports of complete machines or other complete units in partial shipment lots.

30.33 Vessels, planes, cargo vans, and other carriers and containers sold foreign. 30.34 Return of exported cargo to the United States prior to reaching its final destination.

30.35 Shipments between United States points in-transit through Canada diverted to Canada.

30.36 Cargo "Ramp Transferred" in the United States from an international flight to another international flight of the same airline; cargo laden aboard a domestic flight at designated ports of origin for transfer to an international flight at the port of exit.

30.94 30.95

Instructions to Collectors.

Penalties for violations.

AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 30 issued under R.S. 161; 5 U.S.C. 22; Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Department of Commerce Order No. 85, June 21, 1962, 27 F.R. 6397. Interpret or apply 76 Stat. 951, 13 U.S.C. 301-307, 46 Stat. 590, 722, 19 U.S.C. 1484(e).

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 30 appear at 28 F.R. 2556, Mar. 16, 1963, unless otherwise noted.

Subpart A-General Requirements—

Exporters

§ 30.1 General statement of requirement for Shipper's Export Declarations.

(a) Shipper's Export Declarations shall be filed by exporters or their agents in accordance with the definitions, specifications, and requirements of these regulations for all commodities, gold and silver, except as specifically exempted herein, shipped as follows:

(1) To foreign countries or areas (including the Canal Zone and Trust Territories under United States administration and including Foreign Trade Zones in foreign countries or areas) from any of the following:

(i) The United States, including the fifty States and the District of Columbia. (ii) Puerto Rico.

(iii) Foreign Trade Zones in the United States or Puerto Rico.

(iv) The Virgin Islands of the United States.

(2) Between nonforeign areas as specified below:

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(i) To Puerto Rico from the United States.

(ii) To the United States from Puerto Rico.

(iii) To United States Possessions from the United States or Puerto Rico. In these regulations, the term United States Possessions includes the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam Island, American Samoa, Wake Island, Midway Island, and Canton and Enderbury Islands.

Declarations

(b) Shipper's Export shall be filed for merchandise moving as described above regardless of the method of transportation, except that for shipments by mail export declarations are required only for shipments valued $100 or more from one business concern to another business concern and for all shipments by mail requiring a validated export license (except technical data). Instructions for the filing of Shipper's Export Declarations for vessels, aircraft, railway cars, etc., when sold foreign appear in § 30.33 of this chapter. Exemptions from these requirements and exceptions to some of the provisions of these regulations for particular types of

1 Shipper's Export Declarations are not required for shipments from a United States Possession destined to the United States, Puerto Rico, or another United States Possession.

(a) Under the provisions of the export control regulations of the Office of Export Control in the Bureau of International Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce (15 CFR Parts 368-399) Shipper's Export Declarations are also required for shipments of merchandise from United States Possessions to foreign countries or areas.

(b) For all shipments to foreign countries or areas, the Shipper's Export Declaration is an export control document. In preparing and filing export declarations for shipments to foreign countries and areas, therefore, the shipper must comply with all pertinent export control regulations as well as the requirements of the statistical regulations of this part. For convenience, a few provisions of the export control regulations and of the Customs regulations closely related to statistical requirements have been incorporated in these regulations. Information concerning export control regulations and information concerning agencies other than the Department of Commerce exercising export control authority for particular types of commodities may be obtained from the Office of Export Control, Bureau of International Commerce, Washington 25, D.C., or from Department of Commerce Field Offices.

§ 30.3 Shipper's Export Declaration forms.

(a) Official forms, or privately printed forms conforming in every respect to the official forms, shall be used in complying with requirements for Shipper's Export Declarations, as follows:

(1) Except for shipments for which the Shipper's Export Declaration for InTransit Goods (Commerce Form 7513) is required as specified below, the Shipper's Export Declaration shall be prepared on Commerce Form 7525-V or on Commerce Form 7525-V-Alternate. The arrange

2 See also the Comprehensive Export Schedule of the Office of Export Control, which may be purchased from the Government Printing Office or Department of Commerce Field Offices.

ment of Form 7525-V-Alternate conforms to and is designed for simultaneous preparation with various other shipping documents commonly used, such as the dock receipt, short form bill of lading, etc. Form 7525-V-Alternate is acceptable in lieu of Form 7525-V, without limitation.

(2) For merchandise shipped intransit through the United States, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States from one foreign country or area to another, including such merchandise destined from one foreign place to another and transshipped in ports of the United States, Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands of the United States, and for foreign merchandise exported from General Order Warehouses or from Foreign Trade Zones, the Shipper's Export Declaration for In-Transit Goods (Commerce Form 7513) shall be filed. Form 7513 shall also be filed for merchandise subject to government inspection, examination, or permit, arriving from a foreign country, which is rejected and exported. (Although Form 7513 provides that it is to be used for foreign merchandise, it should be used, also, for United States merchandise which, after having been exported, has been returned to or through the United States and is again being exported under any of the conditions described in this paragraph. Except for rejected merchandise, Form 7513 is not to be used for the reexportation of goods for which entry has been made on Customs Forms 7501 or 7502.)

(b) The Shipper's Export Declaration and the Continuation Sheet' to the (both Shipper's Export Declaration forms designated Commerce Form 7525-V), and the Shipper's Export Declaration for In-Transit Goods (Commerce Form 7513) may be purchased for a nominal price from Collectors of Customs, Department of Commerce Field Offices and the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C. Sample official Alternate Forms (Commerce Form 7525V-Alternate) may be obtained from the Foreign Trade Division, Bureau of the Census, Washington 25, D.C., or from the New York Office, Foreign Trade Branch, Economic Operations Division, Bureau of the Census, 434 Customhouse, New York, 4, New York. However, supplies of Form

See § 30.10 for instructions as to use of the Continuation Sheet.

7525-V-Alternate are not available from Government sales offices. Privately printed forms 7525-V and its Continuation Sheet, 7525-V-Alternate, and 7513 are acceptable in lieu of forms obtained from Government sales offices, provided the privately printed forms conform strictly to the respective official form in size, wording, color, quality (weight of paper stock) and arrangement, including the instructions printed on the reverse side and also the Budget Bureau Approval Number printed in the upper righthand corner of the face of the form. The quality (weight) of paper stock used in printing the Shipper's Export Declaration forms is not less than 16 nor more than 20 pounds commercial substance. Occasional shippers may obtain copies of Shipper's Export Declarations free of charge from local Collectors of Customs, Post Offices, and Department of Commerce Field Offices. § 30.4 Preparation and signature of Shipper's Export Declarations.

(a) The Shipper's Export Declaration shall be prepared and signed by the shipper, owner, or consignor, or his properly authorized agent. If the Shipper's Export Declaration is prepared by an agent of the shipper, owner, or consignor, his authority to sign such declaration shall be in the form of a properly executed power of attorney, signed by the shipper, owner, or consignor on file in the Customs office where the export declaration is to be presented, or in the less formal written authorization printed on the export declaration.

In every event the data required in the Shipper's Export Declaration shall be complete and correct and shall be based on personal knowledge of the facts stated, or on invoices or information furnished by the principal. Exporters who authorize the preparation of their export declarations by an agent shall provide the agent with information for this purpose which will, in every respect, meet the specifications in § 30.7. Particular attention is called to the fact that invoices and other commercial documents furnished to the agent for other purposes may not necessarily contain all of the particular types of information needed for the preparation of the export declaration, and special arrangements should be made so that the information needed for the export declaration is noted upon or accompanies the commercial documents

furnished to the agent, if he is to prepare the Shipper's Export Declaration.

(b) Shipper's Export Declarations shall be typewritten or prepared in ink or other permanent medium (except indelible pencil). The use of ditto, hectograph, or other duplicating process, as well as the overprinting of selected items of information is acceptable.

(c) All copies of the Shipper's Export Declaration shall contain all of the information called for in the signature space as to name of firm, address, name of signer, capacity of signer, etc. The original Shipper's Export Declaration shall be signed in ink, but signature of other copies is not required. The use of facsimile signature stamps is acceptable as signature in ink. A duly signed legible carbon or other copy of the export declaration is acceptable as an "original" of the Shipper's Declaration.

Export

§ 30.5 Number of copies of Shipper's Export Declarations required.

(a) The Shipper's Export Declaration shall be presented to Collectors of Customs or Postmasters, as specified in §§ 30.12 through 30.15, in the following number of copies:

(1) In triplicate for shipments, except by mail, destined to all foreign countries, except Canada, and for shipments through Canada destined to a third country.

(2) In duplicate for shipments, except by mail, where Canada is the final destination as known to the exporter at the time of exportation, and for shipments to non-foreign areas.

(3) One copy only, for mail shipments to all destinations.

(b) In addition to the standard requirements set forth in paragraph (a) of this section, additional copies of Shipper's Export Declarations may be required for export control purposes by the regulations of the Office of Export Control or other Government agencies, or in particular circumstances by the Collector of Customs or by the Postmaster. (See § 30.91 for limitations on the issuance of authenticated copies of Shipper's Export Declarations.)

§ 30.6 Requirements as to separate Shipper's Export Declarations. Except as specifically provided in Subpart C, a separate Shipper's Export Declaration (in the required number of copies-see § 30.5) is required for each

shipment (consisting of one or more kinds of merchandise) from one consignor to one consignee on a single carrier. In addition, more than one declaration is required for an individual shipment as follows:

(a) For consignments by rail, truck, or other vehicle, requiring more than one rail car, truck, or other vehicle, a separate export declaration is required for the merchandise carried in each such rail car, truck, or other vehicle.

(b) Commodities requiring a validated export license shall not be reported on the same export declaration with commodities moving under general license.

§ 30.7 Information required on Shipper's Export Declarations.

The following information shall be furnished in the appropriate spaces provided on the Shipper's Export Declaration, and shall conform to the requirements set forth in this section.

(See

§ 30.92 for information as to the statistical classification Schedules B, C, D, P, and S referred to in this section. Also, see § 30.8 for information required on Form 7513 in addition to these requirements.)

(a) Port of export. The name of the United States Customs port of exportation shall be entered in terms of Schedule D, Code Classification of United States Customs Districts and Ports. (See § 30.12 for definition of port of exportation.) (The boxes for District and Port codes in the upper portion of the form are to be completed by Customs except where the Collector of Customs requests that they be completed by the person preparing the declaration.) For shipments by mail, the name of the Post Office where the package is mailed shall be inserted in the space for United States port of export.

On

(b) Method of transportation. Commerce Form 7525-V (but not required on other Shipper's Export Declaration forms) the method of transportation by which the goods are exported (or shipped to a non-foreign area where the declaration covers such a shipment) i.e., vessel (including ferry), air, or other, shall be indicated by check mark in the appropriate space. For shipments by means of transportation other than vessel or air, the specific method of transportation (rail, truck, pipeline, etc.) used should be entered.