Title
HMF Declaration - Document Version

Purpose
This report selects data for creating the HMF declaration -- aquarterly declaration to the U.S. authorities that reports the value ofgoods loaded and unloaded in U.S. harbors.
The Harbor Maintenance Fee (HMF) is used to maintain and extend portsand harbors in the U.S. and is paid to the Department of Treasury bycompanies who import and export merchandise at a rate of 0.125% of thevalue of the transported goods.
The system calculates the harbor maintenance fee for exports only.

Features
The basis of the HMF declaration is the data the system collects whencreating a regular Shipper's Export Declaration (SED). The systemevaluates all dispatches leaving the U.S. from a U.S. port by ship andthen totals the value of the goods.
Since data differs slightly in declarations, you can define the datarecord for

• Exporters


• Forwarding agents

You can limit the output to

• Only exports which require customs declaration


• Take exports into account that do not require declaration (valued at
US$ 2500 or less)
You can also select processing options to

• Aggregate items that have the same commodity code in a billing document


• Sort the data by sales organization

Output
The system selects data for the year an quarter you specify andcalculates the harbor maintenance fee for the selected transactions.
The output is in the form of a table and includes a significant amountof data to include


• Port of transportation


• Licensing information


• Date of transfer


• Serial numbers


• Destination


• U.S. port


• Weight


• Vessel name, and


• Various additional data

From the output screen, you can print the document or download it to alocal file in the following formats:

• Unconverted


• XLS format


• HTML format


• RTF format