§ 30.37 Exceptions from the requirement for reporting complete commodity detail on the Shipper's Export Declaration.

(a) Where it can be determined that particular types of U.S. Government shipments, or shipments for Government projects, are of such nature that they should not be included in the export statistics, and further, where no detriment to the export control program would be involved, special arrangements can sometimes be made to waive compliance with specific portions of the requirements of § 30.7 with respect to the reporting of detailed information on the Shipper's Export Declarations. Such exceptions will be made only upon application by the exporter and specific authorization to the Customs Director and the exporter for the particular project or shipment, approved by both the Bureau of the Census and the Office of Export Control, and will be conditioned upon a prescribed identification which must appear upon the declarations. The particular types of shipments for which such exceptions may be possible are as follows:

(1) Shipments to National Aeronautics and Space Administration tracking systems.

(2) Shipments to a contractor under a Department of Defense or other armed service contract for the construction of facilities for the use of the U.S. armed services.

(3) Temporary exports by or to U.S. Government agencies.

(4) Shipments of supplies and material to contractors in the Panama Canal Zone for the construction and/or maintenance of the Panama Canal Zone and its facilities.

(b) Special exemptions to specific portions of the requirements of § 30.7 with respect to the reporting of detailed information on the Shipper's Export Declaration may also be granted by the Bureau of the Census with the concurrence of the Office of Export Control for certain Department of Defense shipments, or shipments made on behalf of the Department of Defense, to foreign governments under the cash reimbursable provisions of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program (military sales), if and when arrangements have been made for the Bureau of the Census to obtain the desired statistical information other than through the reporting of complete com

§ 30.39 Monthly declarations for specified types of air shipments.

(a) A Customs Director, if he finds that no administrative difficulties are involved, may authorize the filing of one Shipper's Export Declaration per month, in lieu of a declaration for each shipment as required by § 30.6, for the following types of frequently recurring shipments by air from a single consignor from one U.S. airport to one country of destination and one port of unlading via a single airline:

(1) Newspapers and magazines.

(2) Newsreel films, mats, proofs, etc. (3) Airline timetables being shipped by the airline.

(4) Shipments of registered carrier stores by a United States or Canadian airline to each of its installations or agents abroad which are exported under General License RCS of the Export Regulations set forth in § 371.13 (d) of this title.

(b) Such authorization will be subject to the requirement that a declaration covering all such shipments made during the month named on the declaration will be filed by the consignor with the Customs Director no later than the third working day of the month following the month covered, and also, except for shipments under paragraph (a) (4) of this section, subject to the requirement that a Continuation Sheet or other attachment filed with the declaration will list the names of the individual consignees and the number of items shipped to each. Authorization for the filing of monthly declarations for the types of shipments listed above may be denied by the Customs Director, and authorizations which he has given may be terminated by him. § 30.40 Single declaration for multiple consignees.

As a further exception to the requirements of § 30.6, Shippers are authorized, subject to the approval of the Customs Director, to file one Shipper's Export Declaration (in duplicate) for all shipments, other than those made to U.S. Government agencies, offices, establishments, or representatives of any of these, which are laden on one vessel or aircraft and destined to go to one port in Puerto Rico, any U.S. Possession, or the Canal Zone. For such shipments no consignee

information need be furnished whether such shipments are made to one or several consignees.

Subpart D-Exemptions From the Requirements for the Filing of Shipper's Export Declarations

§ 30.50

Procedure for shipments exempt from the requirements for Shipper's Export Declarations.

Except as provided below, where an exemption from the requirement for the filing of a Shipper's Export Declaration is provided in this subpart, a notation describing the basis for the exemption shall be made on the bill of lading, air waybill, or other loading document for carrier use, with a reference to the number of the section in this part where the particular exemption is provided so that the carrier at the time of lading, and the Customs Director at the time of exportation, may verify that no declaration is required. If none of the above named documents is used, the person transporting the merchandise must be prepared to identify to the Customs Director at the port of exportation, at the time of exportation but prior to departure, any merchandise which is exempt from the requirement for the filing of a Shipper's Export Declaration and explain to the Customs Director the basis for the exemption. Where shipments are exempt from the requirement for Shipper's Export Declarations on the basis of value and destination, the appearance of the value and destination on the bill of lading, air waybill, or other loading document for carrier use, shall be acceptable as evidence of the exemption, and no reference need be made to the particular section of the regulations in this part where the exemption is provided.

§ 30.51 Government shipments not generally exempt.

Except as provided below in this subpart, Shipper's Export Declarations are required for exports by or to U.S. Government agencies, whether or not shipped on a Government bill of lading. No general exemption is provided for Government shipments, as such.

§ 30.52 Special exemptions for shipments to the U.S. armed services. Shipper's Export Declarations are not required for the following types of shipments to the U.S. armed services:

(a) All commodities, whether shipped commercially or through Government channels, consigned to the United States armed services for their exclusive use, including shipments to armed services exchange systems. (This exemption does not apply to shipments which are for the ultimate use of the U.S. armed services but which are not consigned to the U.S. armed services. However, special exceptions to the requirements of the regulations in this part which may in some circumstances apply to shipments for the ultimate use of the U.S. armed services but not so consigned are provided in § 30.37.)

(b) Department of Defense Military Assistance Program Grant-Aid shipments being transported as Department of Defense cargo under the provisions of Bureau of Customs Circular Letters VES5-MA, March 8, 1954 (MC 133), VES-5MA, June 17, 1954 (MC 133 S.1), VES5-MA, May 24, 1956 (MC 133 S.2) and RES-20-MC, January 25, 1960 (CC 76). Under arrangements with the Department of Defense, information on these shipments for inclusion in U.S. export statistics will be furnished directly to the Bureau of the Census by the Department of Defense. This exception from the filing of Shipper's Export Declarations does not apply to Military Assistance Program Grant-Aid shipments to which a foreign government has taken title before exportation or to any Grant-Aid Military-Aid Program shipment moving in any manner other than as Department of Defense cargo. (See § 30.37 for possible exceptions to the full reporting requirements of § 30.7 for certain military sales shipments not exempt from the requirement for the Shipper's Export Declaration.)

§ 30.53 Special exemptions for certain shipments to U.S. Government agencies and employees.

Shipper's Export Declarations are not required for the following types of shipments to U.S. Government agencies or employees:

(a) Office furniture, office equipment, and office supplies shipped to and for the exclusive use of U.S. Government offices.

(b) Household goods and personal property shipped to and for the exclusive and personal use of U.S. Government employees.

(c) Food, medicines, and related items and other commissary supplies shipped to U.S. Government offices or employees

for the exclusive use of such employees, or to U.S. Government employee cooperative or other associations for subsequent sale or other distribution to such employees.

(d) Books, maps, charts, pamphlets, and similar articles shipped by U.S. Government offices to U.S. or foreign libraries or government establishments.

(e) All commodities shipped to and for the exclusive use of the Panama Canal Zone Government or the Panama Canal Company.

§ 30.54 Special exemptions for mail shipments.

Shipper's Export Declarations are not required for the following kinds of shipments by mail:

(a) Shipments (except shipments requiring a validated export license) where one or more of the following conditions are present:

(1) Either the consignor or the consignee is not a business concern.

(2) The shipment is valued less than $100.

(3) The goods are not mailed for commercial consideration.

(b) Technical data regardless of value, licensing requirements, and the other criteria set forth in paragraph (a) of this section.

§ 30.55 Miscellaneous exemptions.

Shipper's Export Declarations are not required for the following kinds of shipments:

(a) Diplomatic pouches and their contents.

(b) Human remains and accompanying appropriate receptacles and flowers.

(c) Shipments from one point in the United States to another thereof by routes passing through Mexico or Canada.

(d) Shipments from one point in Canada or Mexico to another point thereof by routes through the United States.

(e) Air shipments of merchandise, for which no licensing or other export control requirements are applicable, transported in bond through the United States for exportation from another U.S. airport or for exportation by air directly from the port of arrival, in accordance with the transit air cargo procedure as outlined in 19 CFR 6.17 through 6.24 (Customs Regulations).

(f) Shipments to foreign libraries or government establishments, as provided in § 30.53 (d).

(g) Shipments of single gift parcels as encompassed by Office of Export Control General License GIFT.

(h) Shipments (except shipments requiring a validated export license or moving under Office of Export Control General License GLV) to all countries (except Cuba) in North and South America (as listed in Schedule C), to the U.S. Possessions, and between the United States and Puerto Rico, where the value of the commodities classified under a single Schedule B number and shipped on the same exporting carrier from one exporter to one importer is less than $100: Provided, That in order to adequately maintain factors for estimating the statistics on under $100 shipments, the Bureau of the Census may from time to time require the complete enumeration of such shipments for selected periods.

§ 30.56 Conditional exemptions.

Shipper's Export Declarations are not required for the following classes of commodities when they are not shipped as cargo under a bill of lading or an air waybill and do not require a validated export license, but the exporter should be prepared to make oral declaration to the Customs Director, if required:

(a) Baggage and personal effects, accompanied or unaccompanied, of persons leaving the United States, including members of crews on vessels and aircraft, such as:

(1) Usual and reasonable kinds and quantities of wearing apparel, articles of personal adornment, toilet articles, medicinal supplies, food, souvenirs, games, and similar personal effects and their containers.

(2) Usual and reasonable kinds and quantities of furniture, household effects, household furnishings, and their containers.

(3) Usual and reasonable kinds and quantities of vehicles, such as passenger cars, station wagons, trucks, trailers, motorcycles, bicycles, tricycles, perambulators, and their containers: Provided, That the above-indicated baggage and personal effects (i) shall include only such articles as are owned by such person or members of his immediate family; (ii) shall be in his possession at the time of or prior to his departure from the United States for the foreign country; (iii) are necessary and appropriate for the use of such person or his immediate family; (iv) are intended for his use or the use

of his immediate family; and (v) are not intended for sale.

(b) Tools of trade of persons leaving the United States covering usual and reasonable kinds and quantities of implements, instruments and tools of trade, occupation, or employment and their containers: Provided, That the aboveindicated tools of trade (1) shall include only such articles as are owned by such person; (2) shall be in his possession at the time of or prior to his departure from the United States for a foreign country; (3) are necessary and appropriate and intended for the personal use of such person; and (4) are not intended for sale.

(c) Carriers' stores (including merchandise carried in shops aboard carriers for sale to passengers), supplies, and equipment for departing vessels, planes, or other carriers, including usual and reasonable kinds and quantities of bunker fuel, deck engine, and steward department stores, provisions and supplies, medicinal and surgical supplies, food stores, slop chest articles, and saloon stores or supplies for use or consumption on board and not intended for unlading in a foreign country, and including usual and reasonable kinds and quantities of equipment and spare parts for permanent use on the carrier when necessary for proper operation of such carrier and not intended for unlading in a foreign country. Hay, straw, feed, and other appurtenances necessary to the care and feeding of livestock while enroute to a foreign destination are considered part of carriers' stores of carrying vessels, trains, planes, etc.

(d) Dunnage of usual and reasonable kinds and quantities necessary and appropriate to stow or secure cargo on the outgoing or any immediate return voyage of an exporting carrier, when exported solely for use as dunnage and not intended for unlading in a foreign country. § 30.57 Information on export declara

tions for shipments of types of goods covered by § 30.56 not conditionally exempt.

(a) In those cases where Shipper's Export Declarations are required for articles enumerated in § 30.56 (a) through (d) only by virtue of their being shipped under a bill of lading or an air waybill (no validated license is required) the export declaration should clearly indicate in column 10, in lieu of the complete commodity description, that the shipment consists of baggage, personal ef

fects, household effects, ship's stores, crew's effects, or as appropriate. In such cases, Schedule B commodity numbers should not be shown on the declarations.

(b) In those cases where the articles enumerated in § 30.56 (a) through (d) require a validated export license (whether or not shipped under a bill of lading or an air waybill), the Shipper's Export Declaration must identify the shipment as baggage, personal effects, etc., and must contain all the information normally required for any exportation made under a validated export license, i.e., complete commodity description, license number, Schedule B number, quantity, value, etc.

Subpart E-General Requirements-
Importers

§ 30.70 Statistical information required on import entries.

Information for statistics on merchandise entering the United States from foreign countries, from the Virgin Islands of the United States, and from U.S. Foreign Trade Zones is required to be reported by importers on the following Customs entry and withdrawal forms respectively required by U.S. Customs regulations for individual transactions: Customs Forms 7500, 7501, 7502, 7505, 7506, 7519, 7521, and 7535, and Customs Form 7512 when used to document withdrawal for exportation, transportation and exportation, withdrawal for transportation and exportation, and immediate export. The following items of information for statistics shall be reported on the respective forms: 10

(a) District and Port Code. (All forms.) The Customs district code number and the port code number (as shown in Schedule D, "Code Classification of U.S. Customs Districts and Ports") for the Customs port of entry or filing shall be supplied. (Where Customs does not require that the District and Port codes be inserted by importers, the codes will be filled in by Customs so that all entries and withdrawals received by the Bureau of the Census will bear these codes.)

(b) Importing vessel or carrier. (1) (Customs Forms 7501, 7502, 7512, and 7521.) Information is required as to the

10 The information required for statistical purposes is in most cases also required by Customs regulations for other purposes. (See § 30.80 for special reporting instructions for merchandise entering U.S. Customs Territory from U.S. Foreign Trade Zones.)

carrier or means of transportation by which the merchandise was transported from a foreign country to the first port of unloading in the United States. If the merchandise has been further transported in bond between ports in the United States after having been unladen from the carrier on which it arrived in the United States, the name of the domestic carrier shall not be substituted, and the information furnished shall reflect the name of the carrier or means of transportation by which the merchandise arrived in the first United States port of unlading.

(2) For merchandise arriving in the United States by vessel, the name of the importing vessel is required. The importing vessel is the vessel which transported the merchandise from the foreign port of lading to the first United States port of unlading.

(3) For merchandise arriving in the United States by air, the name and nationality of the importing airline is required. The importing airline is the airline which carried the merchandise from the foreign port of lading to the first United States port of unlading, and not a domestic airline carrying the merchandise after the initial unlading in the United States.

(4) For merchandise arriving in the United States by means of transportation other than vessel or air, the means of transportation from the foreign country is required, in such terms as "parcel post," "registered mail," "railroad," "truck," "pipeline," etc.

(c) Foreign port of lading. (1) (Customs Forms 7501, 7502, 7512, and 7521.) For merchandise arriving in the United States by vessel or air, the name and country of the foreign port at which the merchandise was actually loaded on the vessel or aircraft which carried the merchandise to the United States is required.

(2) For merchandise transshipped abroad in the course of shipment to the United States, whether or not covered by a through bill of lading, the information furnished shall reflect only the foreign port at which the merchandise was loaded on the vessel or aircraft which transported it to the first U.S. port of unlading. Neither the foreign port of original lading nor any port of lading other than the last foreign port of lading shall be substituted. When a single Customs form covers merchandise loaded at more than one foreign port, the foreign port of lading shall be indicated

separately above each item (or group of items) for the merchandise loaded at each foreign port.

(d) U.S. port of unlading. (1) (Customs Forms 7501, 7502, 7512, and 7521.) For merchandise arriving in the United States by vessel or air, the U.S. port (as listed in Schedule D) at which the merchandise was unloaded from the importing vessel or aircraft is required, whether or not such port is a Customs port of entry. (For example, if entry is filed at the Port of Los Angeles for merchandise unloaded from the importing vessel at Long Beach, Calif., the entry should show Long Beach as the port of unlading.)

(2) When merchandise is transported in bond from the U.S. port where unladen from the importing vessel or carrier to another U.S. port or ports to be entered for consumption or warehouse, the port of unlading required to be shown on the consumption or warehouse entry is the port or point where the merchandise was unladen from the importing vessel or carrier before transportation in bond.

(e) Date of importation. (All forms.) For merchandise arriving in the United States by vessel, the month, day, and year on which the importing vessel transporting the merchandise from the foreign country arrived within the limits of the U.S. port at which the merchandise was or is to be unladen is required. The date of importation to be reported for merchandise arriving in the United States other than by vessel is the date on which the merchandise arrives within the limits of the United States. (All

(f) Country of origin. (1) forms.) Country of origin shall be reported in the "marks and numbers and country of origin" column on entry and withdrawal forms (in the "marks and numbers" column on Forms 7512 and 7500), the "country of origin" space on the Special Customs Invoice form, and in a conspicuous place on commercial invoices supplied to Customs where the Special Customs Invoice form is not required. On multipage entries, country of origin should be shown on each page.

(2) Country of origin shall be reported in terms of the names designated in Schedule C, "Classification of Country Designations Used in Compiling the U.S. Foreign Trade Statistics," unless a more specific geographic area is required to be shown for other purposes. The country of origin is defined as the country in which the product was mined, grown, or