NOTICES
PUBLISHED IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER DURING 1997
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
FOREIGN TRADE STATISTICS REGULATIONS
(15 CFR Part 30)
NOTE: CHANGES TO THE FOREIGN TRADE STATISTICS REGULATIONS LISTED BELOW ARE NUMBERED CONSECUTIVELY, BEGINNING IN JANUARY OF THE NEW YEAR.
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1. Conditional Exemptions for Filing Shipper’s Export Declarations (SED) for Tools of Trade (62 FR 49436 on September 22, 1997)
Commentary: The Commerce Department’s Bureau of the Census has amended the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations to include an exemption for exporters who currently must file a Shippers Export Declaration for temporary exports of tools of trade. This exemption applies whenever the tools of trade are company-owned commodities or software, accompanying the employees or representatives of the exporting company and are intended to remain outside the United States for less than one year. (The current regulations only allow an exemption for filing an SED when the tools of trade are owned by individuals, and this exemption still applies.) This final rule should be especially important for exporters of company-owned laptop computers with cryptographic hardware and software, who use such commodities and software to communicate securely with their home offices in the United States.