U. S. Treasury Department.

Customs Cat. No. 7525.

T. D. 35969.

C. D., Nov. 20-15.

ORIGINAL (For United States customs use only.)

SHIPPER'S EXPORT DECLARATION.

OF MERCHANDISE SHIPPED TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES OR NONCONTIGUOUS TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES.

Clearance will not be granted until shipper's declaration has been filed with the collector of customs. U. S. Government export statistics are compiled from this declaration and it must be correct.

For shipment on the...

From---

(Name of carrier. If vessel, give name, motive power, and flag, if known.)

To port of____

(Foreign port or place).

(Final destination of goods.)

(U. S. customs port of exportation.) Country of..

I, the undersigned, solemnly and truly declare that the above statement is a complete, just, and true account of all merchandise shipped by the party named on board the vessel, car, or vehicle, and to the place or country named above, and that the description and quantity of each article is truly stated, and that the values thereof are the actual costs or values at the time and place of shipment for exportation.

This oath to be taken before notary, collector of customs, or officer authorized to administer oaths. This declaration must be signed, but oath need not be taken on exportations to Canada or Mexico by car, vehicle, or ferry, or on shipments by vessel to any country if

DUPLICATE-For use of carrier.

EXTRACT OF SHIPPER'S EXPORT DECLARATION.

To be delivered to exporting vessel or vehicle and to be attached to the manifest or waybill when presented for clearance.

Date exported

Waybill or manifest No----- Date C. H. No.‒‒‒‒‒

To exporting vessel or vehicle: This is to certify that shipper's declaration is on file with the collector of customs, district No.---, and above-described goods may be cleared for exportation.

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Deputy Collector of Customs.

This export declaration and extract must be executed by the shipper, owner, or consignor of the merchandise, or by his agent. If executed by an agent, his authority must be in writing, signed by the shipper. Such authority may be indorsed on the declaration or may be separately filed with the collector of customs.

The shippers' export declaration for all shipments by vessel valued at more than $100 must be made under oath taken before a notary public or other person authorized to administer oaths, or before any collector of customs or deputy collector. No cath is required to declarations covering shipments to Canada or Mexico by car, vehicle, or ferry.

Customs officers will number declarations and extracts serially immediately upon their presentation, a new series of numbers to begin on July 1 of each year, or oftener, serial numbers not to exceed 100,000.

Shippers' declarations will be retained in the customhouse and treated as confidential and no information contained therein disclosed without the written authority of the shipper or his agent.

3. Shipments from an interior point.-When goods are shipped from an interior point to a foreign country or to noncontiguous territory of the United States the shipper should prepare and deliver to the carrier the export declaration and extract in the prescribed form for delivery to the collector of customs at the port of exportation. If the shipment is made on a through bill of lading, the declaration and extract should be executed at the time of or prior to the issuance of the through bill of lading and delivered to the carrier to accompany the shipping papers to the seaport. If on a local bill of lading, the declaration and extract may be attached thereto or mailed separately to the consignee at the seaboard. If the shipper prefers, he may place the declaration, but not the extract, in a sealed envelope addressed to the collector of customs, with his name indorsed thereon and the fact of sealing noted on the declaration, and deliver the sealed envelope, together with the extract, to the carrier.

4. Procedure at the seaboard.-Upon arrival of the goods at the seaboard, the carrier will deliver the declaration (sealed or unsealed) and the extract to the collector of customs, who will retain the declaration, certify the extract, and deliver the latter to the party designated to attend to the exportation, to be delivered to the exporting vessel as evidence that the shipper's declaration has been filed.

If the shipment originates or the declaration is executed at the seaboard port, the shipper will mail or otherwise deliver the declaration and extract to the collector of customs, who will retain the declaration, certify the extract, and return the latter to the shipper for delivery to the exporting vessel; or, if the shipper so desires, the

webastor will forward the extract direct to the exporting vessel. In www of mercy the declaration and extract may be delivered to the exporting vessel, to be attached to the manifest filed for clearance.

Vessel clearance at the seaboard.-Vessels bound to foreign countries or to or from noncontiguous territory of the United States should not accept shipments unless extracts in the form herein before provided, certified by the collector of customs, or declarations and extructs therefor have been received.

The customhouse number on the certified extract must be noted on the vessel's manifest opposite each consignment and such extracts attached to and delivered with such manifests to the collector for clearance.

Clearance will not be granted to any vessel until a complete manifest accompanied by certified extracts, or declarations and uncertified extracts, for all cargo on board has been filed with the collector as required by sections 4197 to 4200, Revised Statutes, except under the following conditions:

0. Immediate clearance.-If the vessel's manifest be incomplete and be so indorsed by the master, immediate clearance may be granted upon application on Customs Form No. 7301 and execution of a bond to produce the completo manifest in proper form on the next business day after the departure of the vessel, with all shippers' export declarations or certified extracts theretofore received, and to cause all shippers' declarations not theretofore received to be filed with the wollector of customs within 15 days after the date of clearance; provided, that if any merchandise is exported on the vessel for which

pers' declarations have not been filed, the master must present w.mon's complete manifest a pro ferma declaration on O cans Form Na 7808, enumerating in detail all such shipments.

Carens advers must not compile statistical returns from pro NATA ANTs unless it is shown that the shippers' declarations

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of the waybill, bill of lading, or other shipping paper, or of the manifest prepared for the foreign customs. The required shipper's declarations, sealed or unsealed, or extracts must be attached to such manifest.

The collector will retain the shipper's declarations, certify the extracts and return them to the carrier as clearance for the shipment.

If the shipper's declarations and extracts thereof for any goods have not been received, immediate exportation may be permitted upon the filing of a pro forma declaration therefor on Customs Form No. 7303 and execution of a bond to produce such declarations within 15 days after the date of exportation.

8. Exportation by ferry or vehicle.-The shipper or his agent must deliver a shipper's declaration and extract to the customs officer covering all goods exported by ferry, wagon, or other vehicle. The customs officer will retain the declaration and deliver the certified extract to the shipper, master, or driver as a permit for the exportation of the goods. The master of the ferry or driver of the vehicle will deliver to the customs officer at the close of each day all extracts received during that day, accompanied by a declaration that such extracts cover all goods exported on such ferry or vehicle during that time. If the declaration has not been filed shipment may be permitted upon the filing of a pro forma declaration and bond on Customs Form No. 7303.

9. Shipment of bonded and in transit merchandise.-Shipper's export declarations and extracts will not be required for merchandise withdrawn from bonded warehouse for exportation or for transportation and exportation, or for merchandise shipped under any form of customs bond for exportation from or in transit through the United States.

Customs officers at the port of exit will prepare the statistical reports in all such cases from customs papers covering the shipment.

When the port of exit is located at the seaboard, the inspector assigned to supervise the lading of such bonded goods will issue to the export vessel a permit to lade on Customs Form No. 7305. Such permit will state the marks, numbers, and description of the goods, the place from which received, and the withdrawal or entry number, and must be attached to the vessel's manifest when presented to the collector for clearance.

Customs officers will continue to send the report on Form No. 7 to the Bureau of Statistics in New York covering all articles withdrawn from bonded warehouse for exportation, for use in preparing the statement of goods remaining in warehouse.

10. Exportations from Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico via the United States.-Shippers' export declarations and extracts for merchandise shipped from Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico to the United