Art.

1307. Trade between the United States

and its noncontiguous terri-
tory.

Art.

1309. Personal effects.

REPORTS TO BUREAU OF CUSTOMS

1308. Government supplies shipped 1310. Monthly report of marine transabroad. actions.

R. 8. 335.

Act Aug. 23, 1912 37 Stat. 407.

Act Jan. 5, 1923 42 Stat. 1109.

R. S. 336.

T. D. 38040.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Art. 1261. Compilation and publication.-(a) Statistics of imports and exports are compiled and published by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce from data supplied by collectors of customs as hereinafter provided. Correspondence relative to statistical reports should be addressed to the above bureau at Washington, D. C.

(b) Inquiries relating to statistical requirements of import entries and export declarations, and the procedure of coding and forwarding these documents, should be addressed to the Section of Customs Statistics, Department of Commerce, at New York.

Art. 1262. Accounts, what to show.-(a) The accounts of the commerce of the United States with foreign countries (or its noncontiguous territory) shall comprehend and include, in tabular form, the quantity, by weight or measure, as well as the value of the various articles of foreign commerce.

(b) Articles sent out of the country temporarily, such as automobiles for touring purposes, commercial samples, circuses, race horses, and other articles intended to be returned to the United States, which are not sold and do not enter the trade of the country to which sent, should not be included in the statistics as exports when shipped abroad, nor as imports when returned to the United States.

Art. 1263. Statistical reports furnished to collectors.(a) The Section of Customs Statistics will supply each collector monthly with statistical reports of the imports into and exports from his district, by commodities and countries, in the form of machine-made tabulations, the district, port, vessel, country, classification, etc., being in code numbers.

(b) The statistical report of imports will appear upon white sheets and exports upon yellow sheets. These sheets should be bound by collectors and used as statistical blotters.

Art. 1264. Statistics furnished by collectors.-Trade papers, trade organizations, and commercial concerns may be furnished with such statistical information regarding the foreign trade by customs districts as may be available from the records kept for the purpose of making reports to the Department of Commerce, or as shown in the monthly statistical reports supplied to collectors by the Section of Customs Statistics at New York. In no case shall information be furnished in such manner as to disclose individual transactions or names of importers or exporters.

Art. 1265. Confidential information.-The contents of invoices, entries, manifests, and export declarations must be treated as confidential and not disclosed to others than the parties in interest by employees of the Customs Service or the Section of Customs Statistics. (See art. 1449.)

STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION SCHEDULES

R. S. 337.
Tariff act 1930,

Art. 1266. Statistical information required in entries.(a) The kinds, quantities, and values of all imported arti-T.D. 44109 cles shall be ascertained from the entries. Collectors of customs shall require entries of imported merchandise to contain the information required in Schedule A, statistical classification of imports, as prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, and the chairman of the United States Tariff Commission. Tons, where required, should be long tons of 2,240 pounds as construed in sec. 2951, R. S. unless short tons are specified.

(b) The values of imported merchandise will be returned in the statistical reports in accordance with the dutiable values as defined in section 402 of the tariff act. The value of the containers or coverings and other charges or expenses incident to placing the merchandise in condition packed ready for shipment to the United States, should be included in the statistical value of merchandise, whether the merchandise is dutiable or free of duty.

(c) For statistical purposes nondutiable charges should be deducted in entries from total invoice values for imported merchandise free of duty, as well as for merchandise subject to duty at specific or ad valorem rates.

Act, Mar. 3, 1893,

Act Apr. 29, 1902,

Art. 1267. Shippers' export declarations.-The kinds, R. 8. 4200. quantities, and values of articles exported to foreign 27 Stat. 689. countries or shipped to noncontiguous territory of the 82 Stat, 172, United States shall be compiled from the export declara

T. D. 38410.

R. 8.837.

tion furnished by the shipper to the collector of customs at the port of exportation, prepared on the official form (customs Form 7525) in accordance with the instructions of T. D. 38410.

Art. 1268. Separation of domestic and foreign merchandise. (a) The export declaration must show foreign goods separately from goods of domestic production. Only those goods will be reported as foreign which have undergone no change in form or condition or enhancement in value by the application of labor in the United States. Articles made from foreign materials or changed from the conditions in which imported by repacking, grinding, refining, or smelting will be classed as of domestic production or manufacture.

(b) Articles exported which are the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States and articles of foreign origin which have been changed in form and enhanced in value by labor or manufacture in the United States are to be classified in accordance with Schedule B, statistical classification of domestic commodities exported from the United States, issued by the Department of Com

merce.

(c) Articles exported which had been previously imported, and which are the growth, produce, or manufacture of foreign countries, and are exported in the same condition in which imported, will be classified in accordance with the Department of Commerce statistical classification of foreign merchandise exported from the United States.

Art. 1269. Value of exports.-(a) Articles exported to foreign countries or shipped to noncontiguous territory shall be valued at their actual cost or the values which they may truly bear at the time of exportation or shipment in the ports of the United States from which they are exported or shipped, including the value of cartons, cases, crates, boxes, sacks, and coverings of any kind.

(b) The value stated should be the actual cost or selling price, if the goods are sold, including actual or estimated inland freight charges from the interior place of shipment to the seaport or border point of exportation. If shipped on consignment without a sale having been made, the market value at the time of exportation in the ports of the United States from which exported should be stated.

(c) Freight and other charges from the port of departure in the United States to the place of destination in the

foreign country or noncontiguous territory to which shipped must not be included in the export value.

Art. 1270. Classification of countries.-(a) In the statistical reports of imports, exports, and vessels entered and cleared the foreign countries will be classified in accordance with Schedule C of the Department of Com

merce.

(b) The country in which imported merchandise is invoiced will be considered as the country from which the same was imported into the United States, except that when the entry or invoice shows that it was shipped from some other country through the country where invoiced, the import will be shown from the actual country of shipment. Products of Bolivia, shipped through and invoiced at Chilean and Peruvian ports, will be shown as imported from Bolivia if that country is named on entries.

(c) Entries shall indicate the country and place of invoice and the country and port from which shipped to the United States, also the nationality and motive power of the vessel in which landed in the United States, or in Canada or Mexico if shipped through those countries.

Art. 1271. Country of destination of exports.—(a) If the country of ultimate destination of the commodities exported is different from that for which the vessel or car clears or departs, collectors will require exporters and shippers or their agents to state in the shippers' declarations as the country of ultimate destination the country to which the commodities are sold or destined for a market.

(b) Special care should be taken to state the final destination of goods shipped through Canada to Europe and of goods to be transshipped in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, and France to other countries, and of goods shipped through Chile or Peru destined to Bolivia.

Art. 1272. Fractions in quantities and values.-In the expression of values in export declarations and statistical copies of entries, fractions of a dollar less than 50 cents will be ignored, and fractions of 50 cents or upward will be counted as one dollar. A like rule will apply to fractions of weight, measure, and tonnage.

Art. 1273. Dates of importation and exportation.-For statistical purposes the date of entry will be regarded as the date of importation and the date of clearance will be regarded as the date of exportation.