[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: 15CFR30.56]

[Page 326-327]
 
                  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. 30.56  Conditional exemptions.

    Shipper's Export Declarations are not required for the following 
classes of commodities when they are not shipped as cargo under a bill 
of lading or an air waybill and do not require a validated export 
license, but the exporter should be prepared to make oral declaration to 
the Customs Director, if required:
    (a) Baggage and personal effects, accompanied or unaccompanied, of 
persons leaving the United States, including members of crews on vessels 
and aircraft, such as:
    (1) Usual and reasonable kinds and quantities of wearing apparel, 
articles of personal adornment, toilet articles, medicinal supplies, 
food, souvenirs, games, and similar personal effects and their 
containers.
    (2) Usual and reasonable kinds and quantities of furniture, 
household effects, household furnishings, and their containers.
    (3) Usual and reasonable kinds and quantities of vehicles, such as 
passenger cars, station wagons, trucks, trailers, motorcycles, bicycles, 
tricycles, perambulators, and their containers.

Provided, That the above-indicated baggage and personal effects (i) 
shall include only such articles as are owned by such person or members 
of his immediate family; (ii) shall be in his possession at the time of 
or prior to his departure from the United States for the foreign 
country; (iii) are necessary and appropriate for the use of such person 
or his immediate family; (iv) are intended for his use or the use of his 
immediate family; and (v) are not intended for sale.
    (b) Tools of trade are usual and reasonable kinds and quantities of 
commodities and software, and their containers, that are intended for 
use by individual exporters or by employees or representatives of the 
exporting company in furthering the enterprises and undertakings of the 
exporter abroad. Commodities and software eligible for

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this exemption are those that do not normally require an export license 
or that are exported without a license as specified in 15 CFR 740.9 of 
the EAR (15 CFR chapter VII, subchapter C) and are subject to the 
following provisions:
    (1) Are owned by the individual exporter or exporting company;
    (2) Accompany the individual exporter, employee or representative of 
the exporting company;
    (3) Are necessary and appropriate and intended for the personal and/
or business use of the individual exporter, employee or representative 
of the company or business;
    (4) Are not for sale; and
    (5) Are returned to the United States no later than one year from 
the date of export.
    (c) Carriers' stores (including merchandise carried in ships aboard 
carriers for sale to passengers), supplies, and equipment for departing 
vessels, planes, or other carriers, including usual and reasonable kinds 
and quantities of bunker fuel, deck engine and steward department 
stores, provisions and supplies, medicinal and surgical supplies, food 
stores, slop chest articles, and saloon stores or supplies for use or 
consumption on board and not intended for unlading in a foreign country, 
and including usual and reasonable kinds and quantities of equipment and 
spare parts for permanent use on the carrier when necessary for proper 
operation of such carrier and not intended for unlading in a foreign 
country. Hay, straw, feed, and other appurtenances necessary to the care 
and feeding of livestock while enroute to a foreign destination are 
considered part of carriers' stores of carrying vessels, trains, planes, 
etc.
    (d) Dunnage of usual and reasonable kinds and quantities necessary 
and appropriate to stow or secure cargo on the outgoing or any immediate 
return voyage of an exporting carrier, when exported solely for use as 
dunnage and not intended for unlading in a foreign country.

[41 FR 9134, Mar. 3, 1976, as amended at 62 FR 49437, Sept. 22, 1997]