PART 30-FOREIGN TRADE STATISTICS

Subpart A-General Requirements-Exporters

Sec.

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

30.2 Related export control requirements. 30.3 Shipper's Export Declaration forms. 30.4 Preparation and signature of Shipper's Export Declarations.

30.5 Number of copies of Shipper's Export

Declaration required.

30.6 Requirements as to separate Shipper's Export Declarations.

30.7 Information required on Shipper's Export Declarations.

30.8 Additional information required on Shipper's Export Declaration for InTransit Goods (Form 7513).

30.9 Requirements for separation and alignment of items on Shipper's Export Declarations.

30.10 Continuation sheets for Shipper's Export Declaration.

30.11 Authority to require production of documents.

30.12 Time and place Shipper's Export Declarations required to be presented. 30.13-30.14 [Reserved]

30.15 Procedure for presentation of declarations covering shipments from an interior point.

30.16 Corrections to Shipper's Export Declarations.

30.82

[Reserved]

Imports of merchandise into Guam. Identification of U.S. merchandise returned for repair and reexport.

30.83 Statistical copy of mail and informal

entries.

Subpart G-General Administrative Provisions

30.90 Confidential information, import entries and withdrawals.

30.91 Confidential information, Shipper's Export Declarations.

30.92 Statistical classification schedules.

30.93 30.94

Emergency exceptions.

Instructions to Customs.

30.95

Penalties for violations. 30.99 OMB control numbers assigned pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act.

AUTHORITY: Secs. 30.1 to 30.95 issued under R.S. 161; (5 U.S.C. 301); Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Department of Commerce Order 85, June 21, 1962, 27 FR 6397. Interpret or apply 76 Stat. 951, 77A Stat. (13 U.S.C. 301307; 19 U.S.C. 1202, 1484(e)).

SOURCE: 41 FR 9134, Mar. 3, 1976, unless otherwise noted.

NOTE: The term "Customs Director" or "District Director of Customs" as used in this Part 30 means the Regional Commissioner of Customs if the transaction is at the port of New York City; the district director of customs if at the headquarters port of a customs district other than New York City; and the customs officer in charge of the port if at a nonheadquarters port.

Subpart A-General RequirementsExporters

§ 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 Trust Territories under U.S. administration, with the exception of the Northern Mariana Islands, and to Foreign Trade Zones located in foreign countries or areas from any of the following:

(i) The United States, including the 50 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 then: 1

'Shipper's Export Declarations are not required for shipments from the United States or Puerto Rico to the United States Possessions, except to the Virgin Islands of the United States, or from a U.S. Possession

(i) To Puerto Rico from the United States.

(ii) To the United States from Puerto Rico.

(iii) To the Virgin Islands of the United States from the United States or Puerto Rico.

(b) Shipper's Export Declarations shall be filed for merchandise moving as described above regardless of the method of transportation. Instructions for the filing of Shipper's Export Declarations for vessels, aircraft, railway cars, etc., when sold foreign appear in § 30.33. Exemptions from these requirements and exceptions to some of the provisions of these regulations for particular types of transactions will be found in Subparts C and D of this part.

[41 FR 9134, Mar. 3, 1976, as amended at 41 FR 29374, July 16, 1976; 41 FR 42645, Sept. 28, 1976; 50 FR 13017, Apr. 2, 1985]

§ 30.2 Related export control requirements.

(a) Under the provisions of the Export Administration Regulations of the Office of Export Administration in the International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce (15 CFR Parts 368-399), 2 Shipper's Export Declarations are also required for shipments of Merchandise from U.S. Possessions to foreign countries or areas. In these regulations, the term U.S. Possessions includes the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam Island, American Samoa, Wake Island, Midway Island, and Canton and Enderbury Islands.

(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 statis

destined to the United States, Puerto Rico, or another U.S. Possession.

2See also the Export Administration Regulations of the Office of Export Administration, which may be purchased from the Government Printing Office or Department of Commerce District Offices.

tical regulations of this part. For convenience, a few provisions of the Export Administration 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 Administration, International Trade Administration, Washington, D.C. 20230, or from Department of Commerce District Offices.

(13 U.S.C. 302; 5 U.S.C. 301; Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1950, Department of Commerce Order No. 35-2A, August 4, 1975, 40 FR 42765)

[41 FR 9134, Mar. 3, 1976, as amended at 47 FR 7213, Feb. 18, 1982]

§ 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 In transit Goods (Commerce Form 7513) is required as specified below, the Shipper's Export Declaration shall be prepared on Commerce Form 7525V or on Commerce Form 7525-V-Alternate (Intermodal). The arrangement of Form 7525-V-Alternate (Intermodal) 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-VAlternate (Intermodal) is acceptable in lieu of Form 7525-V without limitation.

(2) For merchandise shipped in transit 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, the Shipper's

Export Declaration for Intransit 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 U.S. 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.)

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(b) The Shipper's Export Declaration and the Continuation Sheet 3 to the Shipper's Export Declaration (both 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 Customs Directors, Department of Commerce District Offices, and the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, or they may be privately printed. Supplies of the Alternate Intermodal Shipper's Export Declaration and the Continuation Sheet to the Alternate Intermodal Shipper's Export Declaration are not available from Government sales offices but must be privately printed. Sample official Alternate Intermodal Forms and their Continuation Sheets may be obtained from the Foreign Trade Division, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C. 20233. Privately printed Shipper's Export Declaration forms must conform strictly to the respective official form in size, wording, color, quality (weight of paper stock), and arrangement, including the Office of Management and Budget approval number printed in the upper-right hand corner of the face of form. The quality (weight) of paper stock used in printing the Shipper's Export Declaration form is not less than 16 nor more

3See § 30.10 for instructions as to use of the continuations Sheet.