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CENSUS Legislative Authority Title 13 U.S.C. CHAPTER 9--COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION OF FOREIGN COMMERCE AND TRADE STATISTICS Sec. 301.Collection and publication. 302.Rules, regulations, and orders. 303.Secretary of Treasury, functions. 304.Filing export information, delayed filings, penalties for failure to file. 305.Violations, penalties. 306.Delegation of functions. 307.Relationship to general census law. 301.Collection and publication (a) The Secretary is authorized to collect  information from all persons exporting from, or importing into, the United States and the noncontiguous areas over which the United States exercises sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control, and from all persons engaged in trade between the United States and such noncontiguous areas and between those areas, or from the owners, or operators of carriers engaged in such foreign commerce or trade, and shall compile and publish such information pertaining to exports, imports, trade, and transportation relating thereto, as he deems necessary or appropriate to enable him to foster, promote, develop, andfurther the commerce, domestic and foreign, of the United States and for other lawful purposes. (b) The Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate, on quarterly and cumulative bases, statistics on United States imports for consumption and United States exports by country and by product. Statistics on United States imports shall be submitted in accordance with the Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated and general statistical headnote 1 thereof, in detail as follows: (1) net quantity; (2) United States customs value; (3) purchase price or its equivalent; (4) equivalent of arm's length value; (5) aggregate cost from port of exportation to United States port of entry; (6) a United States port of entry valuecomprised of (5) plus (4), if applicable, or, if not applicable, (5) plus (3); and (7) for transactions where (3) and (4) are equal, the total value of such transactions. The data for paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (5), and (6) shall be reported separately for nonrelated and related party transactions, and shall also be reported as a total of all transactions.  301. Collection and publication--Cont. (c) In submitting any information under subsection (b) with respect to exports, the Secretary shall state separately from the total value of all exports-- (1) (A) the value of agricultural commodities exported under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended; and (B) the total amount of all export subsidies paid to exporters by the United States under such Act for the exportation of such commodities; and  (2) the value of goods exported under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. (d) To assist theSecretary to carry out the provisions of subsections (b) and (c)-- (1) the Secretary of Agriculture shall furnish information to the Secretary concerning the value of agricultural commodities exported under provisions of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistant Act of 1954, as amended, and the total amounts of all exports subsidies paid to exporters by the United States under such Act for the exportation of such commodities; and  (2) the Secretary of State shall furnish information to the Secretary concerning the value of goods exported under the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended. (e) There shall be reported, on monthly and cumulative bases, for each item in the Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated, the United States port of entry value (as determined under subsection (b) (6)). There shall be reported, on monthly and cumulative bases, the balance of international trade for the United States reflecting (1) the aggregate value of all United States imports as reported in accordancewith the first sentence of this subsection, and (2) the aggregate value of all United States exports. The values and balance of trade required to be reported by this subsection shall be released no later than 48 hours before the release of any other government statistics concerning values of United States imports or United States balance of trade, or statistics from which such values or balance may be derived. (f) On or before January 1, 1981, and as often thereafter as may be necessary to reflect significant changes in rates, there shall be reported for each item of the Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated, the ad valorem or ad valorem equivalent rate of duty which would have been required to be imposed on dutiable imports under that item, if the United States customs values of such imports were based on the United States port of entry value (as reported in accordance with the first sentence of subsection (e)) in order to collect the same amount of duties on imports under that item as are currently collected. (g) Shippers' Export Declarations (or any successor document), wherever located, shall be exempt from publicdisclosure unless the Secretary determines that such exemption would be contrary to the national interest. 302. Rules, regulations, and orders The Secretary may make such rules, regulations, and orders as he deems necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Any rules, regulations, or orders issued pursuant to this authority may be established in such form or manner, may contain such classifications or differentiations, and may provide for such adjustments and reasonable exceptions as in the judgment of the Secretary are necessary or proper to effectuate the purpose of this chapter, or to prevent circumvention or evasion of any rule, regulation, or order issued hereunder. The Secretary may also provide by rule or regulation, for such confidentiality, publication, or disclosure, of information collected hereunder as he may deem necessary or appropriate in the public interest. Rules, regulations, and orders, or amendments thereto shall have the concurrence of the Secretary of the Treasury prior to promulgation. 303. Secretary of Treasury functions To assist the Secretary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, the Secretary of the Treasury shall collect information in the form andmanner prescribed by the regulations issued pursuant to this chapter from persons engaged in foreign commerce or trade, other than by mail, and from the owners or operators of carriers. 304. Filing export information, delayed filings, penalties for failure to file a) The information or reports in connection with the exportation or transportation of cargo required to be filed by carriers with the Secretary of the Treasury under any rule, regulation, or order issued pursuant to this chapter may be filed after the departure of such carrier from the port or place of exportation or transportation, whether such departing carrier is destined directly to a foreign port or place or to a noncontiguous area, or proceeds by way of other ports or places of the United States, provided that a bond in an approved form in the penal sum of $1,000 is filed with the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of Commerce may, by a rule, regulation, or order issued in conformity herewith, prescribe a maximum period after such departure during which the required information or reports may be filed. In the event any such information or report is not filed within such prescribed period, a penalty not to exceed $100 for each day's delinquency beyond the prescribed period, but not more than $1,000, shallbe exacted. Civil suit may be instituted in the name of the United States against the principal and surety for the recovery of anypenalties that may accrue and be exacted in accordance with the terms of the bond. (b) The Secretary may remit or mitigate any penalty incurred for violations of this section and regulations issued pursuant thereto if, in his opinion, they were incurred without willful negligence or fraud, or other circumstances justify a remission or mitigation. 305. Violations, penalties Any person, including the owners or operators of carriers, violating the provisions of this chapter, or any rule, regulation, or order issued thereunder, except as provided in section 304 above, shall be liable to a penalty not to exceed $1,000 in addition to any other penalty imposed by law. The amount of any such penalty shall be payable into the Treasury of the United States and shall be recoverable in a civil suit in the name of the United States. 306. Delegation of functions Subject to the concurrence of the head of the department or agency concerned, the Secretary  306. Delegation of functions.--Cont. may make such provisions as he shall deem appropriate, authorizing the performance by any officer, agency, or employee of the United States Government departments or offices, or the governments of any areas over which the UnitedStates exercises sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control, of any function of the Secretary, contained in this chapter. 307. Relationship to general census law The following sections only, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 21, 22, 23, 24, 211, 212, 213, and 214, of chapters 1 through 7 of this title are applicable to this chapter.