13 U.S.C. § 301 : US Code - Section 301: Collection and publication

Search 13 U.S.C. § 301 : US Code - Section 301: Collection and publication

(a) The Secretary is authorized to collect information from all
persons exporting from, or importing into, the United States and
the noncontiguous areas over which the United States exercises
sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control, and from all persons engaged
in trade between the United States and such noncontiguous areas and
between those areas, or from the owners, or operators of carriers
engaged in such foreign commerce or trade, and shall compile and
publish such information pertaining to exports, imports, trade, and
transportation relating thereto, as he deems necessary or
appropriate to enable him to foster, promote, develop, and further
the commerce, domestic and foreign, of the United States and for
other lawful purposes.
(b) The Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Ways and Means
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the
Senate, on quarterly and cumulative bases, statistics on United
States imports for consumption and United States exports by country
and by product. Statistics on United States imports shall be
submitted in accordance with the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes and
general statistical note 1 thereof, in detail as follows:
(1) net quantity;
(2) United States customs value;
(3) purchase price or its equivalent;
(4) equivalent of arm's length value;
(5) aggregate cost from port of exportation to United States
port of entry;
(6) a United States port of entry value comprised of (5) plus
(4), if applicable, or, if not applicable, (5) plus (3); and
(7) for transactions where (3) and (4) are equal, the total
value of such transactions.
The data for paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (5), and (6) shall be
reported separately for nonrelated and related party transactions,
and shall also be reported as a total of all transactions.
(c) In submitting any information under subsection (b) with
respect to exports, the Secretary shall state separately from the
total value of all exports -
(1)(A) the value of agricultural commodities exported under the
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as
amended; and
(B) the total amount of all export subsidies paid to exporters
by the United States under such Act for the exportation of such
commodities; and
(2) the value of goods exported under the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961.
(d) To assist the Secretary to carry out the provisions of
subsections (b) and (c) -
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture shall furnish information to
the Secretary concerning the value of agricultural commodities
exported under provisions of the Agricultural Trade Development
and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended, and the total amounts of
all export subsidies paid to exporters by the United States under
such Act for the exportation of such commodities; and
(2) the Secretary of State shall furnish information to the
Secretary concerning the value of goods exported under the
provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended.
(e) There shall be reported, on monthly and cumulative bases, for
each heading or subheading in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes, the
United States port of entry value (as determined under subsection
(b)(6)). There shall be reported, on monthly and cumulative bases,
the balance of international trade for the United States reflecting
(1) the aggregate value of all United States imports as reported in
accordance with the first sentence of this subsection, and (2) the
aggregate value of all United States exports. The information
required to be reported under this subsection shall be reported in
a form that is adjusted for economic inflation or deflation (on a
constant dollar basis consistent with the reporting of the National
Income and Product Accounts), and in a form that is not so
adjusted.
(f) On or before January 1, 1981, and as often thereafter as may
be necessary to reflect significant changes in rates, there shall
be reported for each heading or subheading in the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States Annotated for Statistical Reporting
Purposes, the ad valorem or ad valorem equivalent rate of duty
which would have been required to be imposed on dutiable imports
under that heading or subheading, if the United States customs
values of such imports were based on the United States port of
entry value (as reported in accordance with the first sentence of
subsection (e)) in order to collect the same amount of duties on
imports under that heading or subheading as are currently
collected.
(g) Shippers' Export Declarations (or any successor document),
wherever located, shall be exempt from public disclosure unless the
Secretary determines that such exemption would be contrary to the
national interest.
(h) The Secretary is authorized to require by regulation the
filing of Shippers' Export Declarations under this chapter through
an automated and electronic system for the filing of export
information established by the Department of the Treasury.