Hi Jennifer,

According to the Administration Guide:

Copying or Importing Fields, Templates, Tags, and Other Metadata Objects

You can create a copy of any metadata object -- templates, fields, tags, or document relationships -- in the same repository or in a different repository, either by copying and pasting the object or by exporting the object and importing it at a later time. The copy of the metadata object will retain the same settings as the original user or group with the following exceptions:

• Only the metadata definition will be exported. The list of entries to which it was applied will not be included.  For example, a field will retain all of its properties, but will not retain a list of documents to which it was applied, or the values stored in it for those documents.
• Security will not be included. For example, an exported template's template security will not be retained.

I hope this helps!

~Rob