IPC-1752A establishes a standard reporting format for material declaration data exchange between supply chain participants and supports reporting of bulk materials, components, printed circuit boards (PCBs), sub-assemblies, and products.

Version 1.1 of this standard was supported by two Portable Document Format (PDF) forms (1752-1 and 1752-2) and the Users Guide (1752-3). However, starting with version 2.0, this standard will not be supported directly with a PDF form. Third party software developers are invited to supply the implementation tool, and one organization has already made a free download implementation tool available. In version 2.0, the data exchange format is specified as Extensible Markup Language (XML).