Agency Form Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Agency Form Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

DOC has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for

clearance the following proposal for collection of information under

the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).

Agency: Bureau of the Census.

Title: Shipper's Export Declaration.

Form Number(s): 7525V.

Agency Approval Number: 0607-0018.

Type of Request: Revision to a currently approved collection.

Burden: 571,272 hours.

Number of Respondents: 130,000.

Avg Hours Per Response: 11 minutes.

Needs and Uses: Shipper's Export Declarations (SED's) are required

from exporters for all shipments valued over $2500 from the United

States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to all foreign

countries except Canada; between the United States and Puerto Rico; and

from the United States or Puerto Rico to the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Information on the cargo, its origin and destination, and method and

date of export are requested. Customs officials gather the SED forms

from export carriers and transmit them to the Census Bureau. The

vertical SED, Form 7525-V, is the standard form used to collect these

data. SED's are the basic source of the official U.S. export statistics

compiled by the Census Bureau. These statistics provide data for the

merchandise trade balance, a major economic indicator and component of

the gross domestic product.

Affected Public: Individuals or households, farms, businesses or

other for profit institutions, Federal agencies or employees, non-

profit insitutions, small businesses or organizations.

Frequency: On occasion.

Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.

OMB Desk Officer: Maria Gonzalez, (202) 395-7313.

Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained

by calling or writing Gerald Tache, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, (202)

482-3271, Department of Commerce, room 5312, 14th and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information

collection should be sent to Maria Gonzalez, OMB Desk Officer, room

10201, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: September 20, 1994.

Gerald Tache,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and

Organization.

[FR Doc. 94-23771 Filed 9-23-94; 8:45 am]

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