[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: 15CFR30.22]

[Page 318-319]
 
                  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. 30.22  Requirements for the filing of Shipper's Export Declarations by departing carriers.

    (a) To meet the requirements of Sec. 30.20 for the filing of 
Shipper's Export Declarations, every departing carrier transporting 
merchandise as specified in Sec. 30.20, including vessels, aircraft, 
rail carriers, trucks and other vehicles, ferries, and every other 
carrier shall deliver to the Customs Director at the port of exportation 
(for shipments from the United States to Puerto Rico, at the port of 
arrival in Puerto Rico), with the manifest of the carrier, if a manifest 
is required by the regulations in this part, Shipper's Export 
Declarations prepared and signed by the exporters, or their agents, 
covering all the cargo for which such Shipper's Export Declarations are 
required by the regulations in this part.
    (b) The exporting carrier shall be responsible for the accuracy of 
the following items of information (where required) on the declaration: 
Name of carrier (including flag if vessel carrier), U.S. Customs port of 
exportation, method of transportation from the United States, foreign 
port of unloading, the bill of lading or air waybill number, and whether 
or not containerized. For shipments to Canada exempt

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from Shipper's Export Declaration filing requirements (See Sec. 30.58), 
the exporting carrier shall enter the U.S. Customs port of exportation 
and method of transportation from the United States on the bill of 
lading, air waybill, or other documents that they prepare.
    (c) Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this section, when a 
transportation company finds, prior to the filing of declarations and 
manifest as provided in paragraph (a) of this section, that due to 
circumstances beyond the control of the transportation company or to 
inadvertence, a portion of the merchandise covered by an individual 
Shipper's Export Declaration has not been exported on the intended 
carrier, the transportation company shall correct the descriptions and 
the quantity, value and shipping weight (if any) amounts shown on the 
declaration to reflect the amount actually exported on the carrier named 
in the Shipper's Export Declaration. If a short shipment of this type is 
discovered by the carrier after the Shipper's Export Declaration in 
question has been delivered to the District Director of Customs, the 
transportation company will immediately notify the District Director of 
Customs so that a correction can be made by the Director on all copies 
of the declaration if it is still in his possession. If the statistical 
copy of the declaration has been transmitted by the Director to the 
Bureau of the Census at the time of such notification, the Director will 
require the exporter (or his agent) to file a ``Correction Copy'' of the 
originally filed Shipper's Export Declaration as described in Sec. 30.16 
of these regulations. If the balance of the short-shipped merchandise is 
subsequently exported, a new Shipper's Export Declaration, complete in 
all detail, will be required. If the short-shipped merchandise is 
exported on a carrier of the transportation company named in the 
original declaration, and if such exportation is made within a 
reasonable period, the District Director of Customs may accept a 
declaration executed by such transportation company; otherwise the new 
declaration shall be executed by the exporter or his agent. In any 
event, the new declaration shall contain the following statement:

    These commodities or technical data were included, but not shipped, 
on a Shipper's Export Declaration filed at ---------- (Port) on --------
-- (Date).

    (d) When a shipment by air covered by a single Shipper's Export 
Declaration is divided by the transportation company and exported in 
more than one aircraft of the transportation company, the ``split 
shipment'' procedure provided in Sec. 30.41 shall be followed by the 
transportation company in delivering manifests and Shipper's Export 
Declarations to the District Director of Customs.
    (e) Exporting carriers are authorized to amend incorrect shipping 
weights reported on Shipper's Export Declarations, and to prorate total 
shipping weights among the individual commodities, where such carriers 
are able to do so based upon information in their possession.

(13 U.S.C. 302; 5 U.S.C. 301; Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1950; 
Department of Commerce Organization Order No. 35-2A, Aug. 4, 1975, 40 FR 
42765)

[41 FR 9134, Mar. 3, 1976, as amended at 43 FR 56030, Nov. 30, 1978; 44 
FR 1971, Jan. 8, 1979; 55 FR 49615, Nov. 30, 1990; 58 FR 41424, Aug. 4, 
1993]