[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR30.20]

[Page 316-317]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
         CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 30--FOREIGN TRADE STATISTICS--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart B--General Requirements--Exporting Carriers
 
Sec. 30.20  General statement of requirement for the filing of manifests and Shipper's Export Declarations by carriers.


    (a) Carriers transporting merchandise from the United States, Puerto 
Rico, or U.S. Possessions to foreign countries; from the United States 
or Puerto Rico to the Virgin Islands of the United States; or between 
Puerto Rico and the United States; shall not be granted clearance, where 
clearance is required, and shall not depart, where clearance is not 
required, until manifests (for vessels, aircraft, and rail carriers) and 
Shipper's Export Declarations have been filed with the Customs Director 
as specified in paragraphs (b) through (d) of this section, except as 
provided in Sec. 30.24. Where for reasons beyond the control of the 
exporting carrier, a given declaration (or declarations) has not been 
received prior to exportation or departure, and the merchandise has been 
laden, such carrier shall not as a result of this circumstance be 
required to off-load the merchandise, or to delay its clearance (where 
clearance is required) or departure (if clearance is not required). 
However, the provisions of Sec. 30.24 remain applicable.
    (b) For carriers transporting merchandise from the United States to 
Puerto Rico, the complete manifest, as required, and all required 
Shipper's Export Declarations shall be filed within one business day 
after arrival, as defined in 19 CFR 4.2(b), with the Customs Director in 
Puerto Rico, except as provided in Sec. 30.24.
    (c) Except as otherwise specifically provided, declarations should 
not be filed at the place where the shipment originates if it is to be 
transshipped within the United States area before being dispatched to a 
foreign country or to its final destination in a nonforeign area. This 
applies to shipments originating in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands of 
the United States being forwarded to the United States for transshipment 
to another destination,

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and to shipments originating in the United States and being forwarded to 
Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands of the United States for 
transshipment, as well as to merchandise being transshipped in Customs 
Districts within the States of the United States. In such cases, the 
declarations should be filed only with the Customs Director at the 
actual port of exportation.
    (d) For purposes of these regulations, the port of exportation is 
defined as the Customs port at which or nearest to which the land 
surface carrier transporting the merchandise crosses the border of the 
United States into foreign territory, or, in the case of exportation by 
vessel or air, the Customs port where the merchandise is loaded on the 
vessel or aircraft which is to carry the merchandise to a foreign 
country or to a nonforeign area of ultimate destination.

[41 FR 9134, Mar. 3, 1976, as amended at 41 FR 42645, Sept. 28, 1976; 58 
FR 41424, Aug. 4, 1993]