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Subpart C--Special Provisions Applicable Under Particular Circumstances 30.30 Values for certain types of transactions. The following special arrangements govern the values to be reported for shipments of the following unusual types: (a) Subsidized exports of agricultural products. Where provision is made for the payment of an export subsidy to the exporter for the exportation of agricultural commodities under a program of the Department of Agriculture, the value required to be shown on the export declaration is the f.a.s. value as defined in 30.7 (q), based on the selling price paid by the foreign importer, excluding the amount of the subsidy. (b) GSA exports of excess personal property. For exports of General Services Administration excess personal property, the value to be shown on the Shipper's Export Declaration will be the total of the estimated "fair value," if any, at which the property was transferred to GSA by the holding agency, plus charges, when applicable, to the port of export, such as packing, rehabilitation, inland freight or drayage. The estimated "fair value" may be zero, or it may be a percentage of the original or estimated acquisition costs. (Export declarations for such shipments will bear the notation "Excess Personal Property, GSA Regulations 1111, 303.03.") 30.31 Identification of certain nonstatistical and other unusual transactions. In order to enable the Bureau of the Census to make a judgment as to the statistical or other status of certain export transactions, Shipper's Export Declarations covering the following types of transactions should carry a statement beneath the commodity description clearly identifying the  transactions such as: (a) Merchandise exported for repair only, and other temporary exports to be returned to the United States which are not sold and do not enter the trade of the country to which shipped, e.g., merchandise for exhibition (not for exhibition and possible sale), horses or other animals for breeding or grazing, etc. (b) The return of merchandise previously imported for repair only and other returns to the foreign shipper of temporarily imported merchandise (declared as such on importation) on which no alteration or processing has been performed; e.g., foreign merchandise being returned to the country of origin after importation into the United States for exhibition only. (c) Shipments of material in connection with construction, maintenance, and related workbeing done on projects for the U.S. Armed Forces. Equipment and other material shipped for temporary use on such projects and intended for return to the United States should be identified separately from construction material or other goods which will become a part of or which will be consumed in the construction or maintenance work. 30.32 [Reserved] 30.33 Vessels, planes, cargo vans, and other carriers and containers sold foreign. (a) Vessels, locomotives, rail cars, ferries, trucks, other vehicles, trailers, pallets, cargo vans, lift vans, or similar shipping containers are not considered "shipped" in terms of these regulations  30.33 Vessels, planes, cargo vans, and other carriers and containers sold foreign.--Cont. in this part when they are moving, either loaded or empty, without transfer of ownership or title, in their capacity as carriers of merchandise or as instruments of such carriers, and Shipper's Export Declarations are not required therefor when so moving. (b) However, Shipper's Export Declarations shall be filed for such items, when moving as merchandise pursuant to sale or other transfer from ownership in the United States to ownership abroad. When a new vessel built in the United States for foreign account clears under a certificate of record (Commerce Form 1316) a Shipper's Export Declarationmust be furnished by the agents or prepared by Customs for statistical purposes. If a vessel, car, vehicle, or container, whether in service or newly built or manufactured, is sold or transferred to foreign ownership while in the Customs area of the United States or at a port in such area, Shipper's Export Declarations shall be filed in accordance with the general requirements of the regulations in this part, at the port through or from which the vessel, car, vehicle, or container first leaves the United States after sale or transfer. If the vessel, car, vehicle, or shipping container is outside the Customs area of the United States at the time of sale or transfer to foreign ownership, Shipper's Export Declarations shall be filed at the last port of clearance or departure from the United States prior to sale or transfer. The country of destination to be shown on the Shipper's Export Declaration for vessels sold foreign is the country of new ownership. The country for which the vessel clears, or the country of registry of the vessel, should not be reported as the country of destination on the Shipper's Export Declaration unless such country is the country of new ownership. 30.34 Return of exported cargo to the United States prior to reaching its final destination. (a) When a vessel carrying cargo which cleared from a port in the U.S. Customs area returns to the U.S. Customs area before it reaches itsdestination and discharges any or all of its cargo in the United States, the Customs Director at the port of unlading shall notify the Foreign Trade Division, Bureau of the Census, of this fact. The letter of notification shall contain the following information: Name of the carrier, dates of clearance, manifest numbers assigned at the various Customs ports at which cargo was laden and the final disposition of all cargo. If the vessel returns to the port at which the cargo was originally laden, the letter of notification shall also include the bill of lading numbers shown on each export declaration filed at the time of clearance. (b) For shipments by air where the Shipper's Export Declarations are filed at the port of lading, if it becomes necessary because of an emergency to unload part or all of the cargo at another port in the U.S. Customs area (other than the port in Puerto Rico or U.S. Possession which is its final destination), the Shipper's Export Declarations filed at the port of lading need not be cancelled if the merchandise is reladen on another plane at the second port within a reasonable time and proceeds to its country of destination. If there is unreasonable delay in reloading, the originally filed declarations should be cancelled and new declarations should be filed at the second port of lading. If for any reason the merchandise remains permanently in the United States, the Customs Director atthe first port of lading must be notified to cancel the Shipper's Export Declarations which have been filed. This provision is not intended as an exception from the requirements of 30.12 as to the place at which Shipper's Export Declarations are required to be filed; it is intended only for cases where an emergency requires an unintended unloading after the requirements of 30.12 have been met. 30.35 Shipments between U.S. points in transit through Canada diverted to Canada. When commodities being shipped in transit through Canada to other United States ports without the filing of a Shipper's Export Declaration (as provided in 30.55) are diverted after leaving the United States, for import into Canada, Shipper's Export Declarations in accordance with the requirements of these regulations shall be filed with the Customs Director at the port of exportation by the exporter or his agent promptly upon such diversion. 30.36 [Reserved] 30.37 Exceptions from the requirement for reporting complete commodity detail on the Shipper's Export Declaration. (a) Where it can be determined that particulartypes 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 Declaration. 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 Admini stration, 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 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. (2) Temporary exports, by or to U.S. Government agencies. (3) 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 therequirements 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 Administration 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 commodity detail on the Shipper's Export Declaration. 30.38 [Reserved] 30.39 Authorization for reporting statistical information other than by means of individual Shipper's Export Declarations filed for each shipment. (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  30.39 Authorization for reporting statistical information other than by means of individual Shipper's Export Declarations filed for each shipment.--Cont. following types of frequently recurring shipments by air from a single consignor from one U.S. airport to one country ofdestination 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 Administration Regulations set forth in 371.12(d) of Chapter III of this title.  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 fifth working day of the month following the month covered, and also, except for shipments under subparagraph (4) of this paragraph, 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. (b) In addition to the procedures authorized in paragraph (a) of this section, the Bureau of the Census, with the concurrence of the Office of Export Administration, may, on an individual case basis, authorize exemption from therequirement of 30.6 that an export declaration be filed for each shipment, the exemption to be conditioned upon the filing, after the close of each month, of a single export declaration or other statistical report, in an approved format including punch cards, computer tapes, etc., covering shipments made during the month to all destinations except countries prohibited by the Export Administration Regulations of the Office of Export Administration (Parts 368399 of this title),7 as follows: (1) Application for permission to file export information on a monthly basis may be made directly to the Foreign Trade Division, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C. 20233, with a copy sent to the Office of Export Administration, International Trade Administration, Washington, D.C. 20230. (2) Authorization will be issued only when in the judge ment of the Bureau of the Census complete and accurate information will be available on a monthly basis from the records of the applicant, and where the exemption from the filing of a Shipper's Export Declaration for individual shipments represents a reduction of reporting procedure in the individual case. (In general, these special reporting procedures will be limited to shippers who, on a continuing basis, make at least twenty (20) shipments per month out of an individual port by each of any one or more methods of transportation, and who areable to furnish summary data each month in all the detail required for statistical processing in terms of the various classifications and crossclassifications now required for statistical purposes, such as commodity data by port, by method of transportation and/or by name of carrier.) Where export control is a consideration, such authorizations will be granted when in the judgement of the Office of Export Administration  7Country groups are established and maintained by the Office of Export Administration. See Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. Parts 368399) for lists of countries included in each country group. 30.39 Authorization for reporting statistical information other than by means of individual Shipper's Export Declarations filed for each shipment.--Cont. the applicant also has demonstrated that it has  establish adequate internal operating procedures  and has taken other satisfactory safeguards to assure compliance with Export Administration Regulations without government review of individual declarations. (3) (i) Procedures for clearing individual shipments through Customs without the presentation of a declaration, and the exact type of monthly or other report to be delivered, will be discussed and specifications developed inconnection with each application (ii) Such authorizations will be subject to the requirement that declarations or other approved summarizations containing the necessary statistical information for all such ship ments made during a given month will be submitted no later than the fifth working day of the month following the month of export. Moreover, records must be maintained in such a manner that the Bureau of the Census, the Office of Export Administration, or the U.S. Customs Service may, if desired, verify that a given shipment was, in fact, included in a particular monthly report . (c) Authorization for the filing of monthly declarations or other summarizations under paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section may be terminated at any time. (d) Part 386 of the Department of Commerce Export Administration Regulations contains complete information on the requirements of the Office of Export Administration in connection with the granting of authorizations for the filing of monthly summaries of export shipments. 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 theCustoms 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, the Virgin Islands of the United States, or the Canal Zone. For such shipments no consignee information needs to be furnished whether such shipments are made to one or several consignees. 30.41 "Split shipments" by air. When a shipment by air covered by a single Shipper's Export Declaration is divided by the exporting transportation company at the port where the declaration is filed, and part of the shipment is exported on one aircraft and part on another aircraft of the same transportation company, the following procedure shall apply: (a) The carrier will deliver the manifest copy of the declaration to the District Director of Customs with the manifest covering the flight on which the first part of the split shipment is exported, and will make no changes on the declaration. However, the manifest will show in the "number of packages" column the actual portion of the declared total quantity being carried and will carry a notation to indicate "Split Shipment." (b) On each subsequent manifest covering a flight onwhich any part of a split shipment is exported, a prominent notation "SPLIT SHIPMENT" will be made adjacent to the item on the manifest for ready identification. For the last shipment the notation will read "SPLIT  SHIPMENT, FINAL." Each subsequent manifest covering a part of a  split shipment shall also show in the "number of packages" column only the merchandise carried on that particular flight and a reference to the total amount originally declared for export, e.g., 5 of 11, or 5/11; and immediately following the line showing the portion of the split shipment carried on that flight, a notation will be made showing the air waybill number shown on the original Shipper's Export Declaration and the portions of the originally declared total carried on each previous flight together with the number and date of each such previous flight, e.g., original Shipper's Export Declaration AWB 123; 2 of 11 flight 36A, June 6; 4 of 11, flight 40X, June 10. (c) Export declarations will not be required for these subsequent shipments. 30.42 [Reserved]