§ 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, Government establishments or

similar institutions.

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

[31 F.R. 11367, Aug. 27, 1966, as amended at 32 F.R. 20806, Dec. 27, 1967]

§ 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 at $250 or under.

(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.

[31 F.R. 11367, Aug. 27, 1966, as amended at 34 F.R. 14593, Sept. 19, 1969]

§ 30.55 Miscellaneous exemptions.

Shipper's Export Declarations are not

required for the following kinds of ship

ments:

(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) Shipments, other than by vessel, of merchandise for which no validated export licenses are required, transported in bond through the United States, and exported from another U.S. port, or transshipped and exported directly from the port of arrival.

(f) Shipments to foreign libraries, Government establishments, or similar institutions, 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) between the United States and Puerto Rico, to American Samoa and the Virgin Islands of the United States, and to all countries except countries included in country groups S, W, Y, and Z, as defined in the Export Control Regulations of the Office of Export Control (Parts 368-399 of this title) 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 $250 or under: Provided, however, That this exemption shall be conditioned upon the filing of such reports as the Bureau of the Census shall periodically require to compile statistics on $250 and under shipments.

(1) Shipments of interplant correspondence, executed invoices and other documents, and other shipments of company business records from a U.S. firm to its subsidiary or affiliate.

(j) Shipments of pets as baggage, accompanied or unaccompanied, of persons leaving the United States, including members of crews on vessels and aircraft. (k) Shipments for use in connection with NASA tracking systems under Office of Export Control Project License

DL-5355-S.

[31 F.R. 11367, Aug. 27, 1966, as amended at 32 F.R. 20806, Dec. 27, 1967; 34 F.R. 812, Jan. 18, 1969; 35 F.R. 4948, Mar. 21, 1970; 35 F.R. 14389, Sept. 12, 1970; 36 F.R. 8138, Apr. 30, 1971]

§ 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

"See footnote 7 to § 30.39.

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; (ii) 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 in

cluding 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 declarations 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 effects, 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 а 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 RequirementsImporters

spectively 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."

(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 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

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.

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. (f) Country of origin. (1) (All 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 manufactured. Further labor, work or material added to an article in another foreign country or the Virgin Islands of the United States must effect a substantial transformation in order to render such other country the "country of origin." Such substantial transformations include smelting of ores, refining of crude products, and the like. The country of origin is not changed when the merchandise is subjected in another country merely to minor manipulations, such as sorting, grading, and the like. When the merchandise is invoiced in or exported from a country other than that in which it originated, the actual country of origin shall be specified rather than the country of invoice or exportation. The country of origin for imports of scrap and waste is the country in which the merchandise was reduced to scrap or waste. In the case of such commodities as industrial diamonds or antiques, if the origin of the merchandise is not known or cannot be ascertained with reasonable effort, the country from which the merchandise has been shipped shall be shown and shall be indicated as the "Country of Shipment."

(3) Except as provided below, the country of origin shown on import entries and withdrawals should be based on information furnished by the foreign supplier on import invoices. The importer should inform his foreign supplier of the requirements and definitions of this section and instruct the foreign supplier to furnish information on the invoice as to country of origin in accordance with the above definition. If an invoice from the foreign supplier is not available at the time of entry, the importer shall enter the correct country of origin according to his best knowledge. In any case where the importer has reliable knowledge that the country of origin shown on the invoice is incorrect, he shall enter on the form the correct country of origin according to his best knowledge, indicating that it is a correction.

(4) When a single Customs form covers merchandise from more than one country of origin, the country of origin shall be indicated separately against each item (or group of items).

(g) Description of merchandise. (All forms.) Except on Customs Form 7512 when used as a Transportation and Exportation (T and E) or Immediate Exportation (IE) entry, the description of merchandise shall be in terms of the Tariff Act in accordance with the Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated for Statistical Reporting (TSUSA) and in sufficient detail to permit the identification of the TSUSA statistical reporting number to which each commodity properly belongs. The name of the commodity and any and all characteristics of the commodity which distinguish it from commodities of the same name covered by other TSUSA statistical reporting numbers shall be clearly and fully stated. For merchandise classified in TSUSA classifications for which the instruction "specify by name" is shown in TSUSA the specific name of the commodity or a further identifying description in addition to the description in the more general terms of the commodity classification definition is required. When Customs Form 7512 is used as a Transportation and Exportation or Immediate Exportation entry importers need only report in terms of the first five digits of TSUSA (i.e., in terms of TSUS).

(h) Gross weight in pounds. (Customs Forms 7501, 7502, 7512, and 7521, for merchandise transported to the

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United States by vessel or air only.) Gross shipping weight in pounds shall be reported in column (2a) immediately below the description of merchandise (in "Gross Weight in Pounds" column on Form 7512 on the same horizontal line with value). Separate gross weight information is required for the merchandise covered by each reporting number, but if gross weight is not available for each reporting number included in one or more packages, approximate shipping weight for each item shall be estimated and reported. The total of these estimated weights should equal the actual gross shipping weight of the entire package or packages. However, for containerized cargo carried in lift vans, cargo vans, or similar substantial outer containers, the weight of such containers should not be included in the gross shipping weight of the merchandise covered by each reporting number.

(i) Net quantity. (All forms except 7535.) When a unit of quantity is specified in TSUSA for the reporting number under which the item is reported, net quantity shall be reported in the specified unit, and (except where the unit is "No." (number)) the unit in which reported shall also be shown on the entry following the net quantity figure. In cases where two units of quantity are shown for the commodity in TSUSA, net quantity shall be reported on the import entry in each of the specified units with the unit indicated in each case. The quantity in terms of the unit marked with a superior "v" in TSUSA should be shown on the entry on the same horizontal line with the value. The quantity in terms of any other units specified in TSUSA should be shown below the first quantity and should be enclosed in parentheses. If no unit of quantity is specified in TSUSA for the reporting number under which the item is reported, net quantity is not required to be reported on the import entry, and an "X" shall be entered in the "net quantity" column. Where the unit of quantity specified in TSUSA is "tons," long tons of 2,240 pounds shall be reported unless short tons of 2,000 pounds are specified in TSUSA. Quantities shall be shown in whole units unless fractions of units are required for Customs purposes.

(j) Value. (All forms.) The dollar value shall be reported on the forms in accordance with the definitions set forth in the Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated (TSUSA) and section