[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: 15CFR30.52]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
         CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 30--FOREIGN TRADE STATISTICS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart D--Exemptions from the Requirements for the Filing of Shipper's 
                           Export Declarations
 
Sec. 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 U.S. 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 these 
regulations 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 Sec. 30.37.)
    (b) Department of Defense Military Assistance Program Grant-Aid 
shipments being transported as Department of Defense cargo under the 
provisions of Customs Circular Letters VES-5-MA, March 8, 1954, (MC 
133), VES-5-MA, June 17, 1954 (MC 133 S.1), VES-5-MA, May 24, 1956 (MC 
133 S.2) and RES-20-MC, January 25, 1960 (CC 76). Under

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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 Sec. 30.37 for possible exceptions to 
the full reporting requirements of Sec. 30.7 for certain military sales 
shipments not exempt from the requirement for the Shipper's Export 
Declaration.)