[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: 15CFR30.55]

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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. 30.55  Miscellaneous exemptions.

    Shipper's Export Declarations are not required for the following 
kinds of shipments:
    (a) Diplomatic pouches and their contents.
    (b) Human remains and accompanying appropriate receptacles and 
flowers.
    (c) Shipments from one point in the United States to another thereof 
by routes passing through Mexico.
    (d) Shipments from one point in Mexico to another point thereof by 
routes through the United States.
    (e) Shipments, other than by vessel, or merchandise for which no 
validated export licenses are required, transported in bond through the 
United States, and exported from another U.S. port, or transshipped and 
exported directly from the port of arrival.
    (f) Shipments to foreign libraries, government establishments, or 
similar institutions, as provided in Sec. 30.53(d).
    (g) Shipments of single gift parcels as authorized by the Bureau of 
Export Administration under License Exception GFT, see 15 CFR 740.12 of 
the EAR.
    (h) Except as noted in paragraph (h)(2) of this section exports of 
commodities where the value of the commodities, shipped from one 
exporter to one consignee on a single exporting carrier, classified 
under an individual Schedule B number, is $2,500 or less.
    (1) This exemption applies to individual Schedule B commodity 
numbers regardless of the total shipment value. In instances where a 
shipment contains a mixture of individual Schedule B commodity numbers 
valued $2,500 or less and individual Schedule B commodity numbers valued 
over $2,500, only those commodity numbers valued $2,500 or more need be 
reported on a Shipper's Export Declaration or AES record.
    (2) This exemption does not apply to exports:
    (i) Destined for Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Serbia 
(excluding Kosovo), Sudan and Syria.
    (ii) Requiring a Department of Commerce license (15 CFR Parts 730 
through 774 of the EAR).
    (iii) Requiring a Department of State, Office of Defense Trade 
Controls export license under the International Traffic In Arms 
Regulations (ITAR) (22 CFR Parts 120 through 130).
    (iv) Subject to the ITAR but exempt from license requirements.

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    (v) Requiring a Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement 
Administration export permit (21 CFR Part 1312). This exemption shall be 
conditioned upon the filing of such reports as the Bureau of the Census 
shall periodically require to compile statistics on $2,500 and under 
shipments.
    (i) Shipments of interplant correspondence, executed invoices and 
other documents, and other shipments of company business records from a 
U.S. firm to its subsidiary or affiliate.
    (j) Shipments of pets as baggage, accompanied or unaccompanied, of 
persons leaving the United States, including members of crews on vessels 
and aircraft.
    (k) Shipments for use in connection with NASA tracking systems under 
Office of Export Administration Project License DL-5355-S.
    (l) Shipments of aircraft parts and equipment, and food, saloon, 
slop chest, and related stores, provisions, and supplies for use on 
aircraft, by a U.S. airline to its own installations, aircraft, and 
agents abroad, under Department of Commerce, Office of Export 
Administration General License RCS.
    (m) Shipments for use in connection with NOAA operations under the 
Office of Export Administration General License G-NOAA.
    (n) Exports of technology and software as defined in 15 CFR Part 772 
of the EAR that do not require an export license, except that an SED or 
AES record is required for mass market software. For purposes of the 
FTSR, mass market software is defined as software that is generally 
available to the public by being sold at retail selling points, or 
directly from the software developer or supplier, by means of over the 
counter transactions, mail order transactions, telephone transactions, 
or electronic mail order transactions, and designed for installation by 
the user without further substantial technical support by the developer 
or supplier.
    (o) Intangible exports of software and technology, such as 
downloaded software and technical data, including technology and 
software that requires an export license and mass market software 
exported electronically.

[41 FR 9134, Mar. 3, 1976, as amended at 47 FR 7214, Feb. 18, 1982; 55 
FR 21187, May 23, 1990; 55 FR 49615, Nov. 30, 1990; 63 FR 45697, Aug. 
27, 1998; 65 FR 42564, July 10, 2000]