Japan ocean cargo: who files the AFR master and who files the house, 24 hours before departure

Tuesday afternoon the Japanese buyer’s nominated forwarder drops one line: “AFR due 24h before departure. Send house details today or we miss CY.” The box is a Ningbo FCL of locks. The contract seller is a Hong Kong company. The plant is in Yongkang. Sales retitles last week’s United States ISF ten-element sheet, staples the booking confirmation and a WeChat screenshot that says “manifest filed,” and replies that the security filing is done and the vessel sails Friday.

Wednesday the forwarder writes back. Japan is not asking for those ten US fields, and it is not asking for the origin export manifest. The shipping company needs the master slice. If this booking has a house bill, the NVOCC still needs the house slice. The goods description is “locks / gifts.” The consignee is a purchaser’s private email. The master number and the house number do not point at the same cargo. The forwarder then asks for the Alibaba.com master login “so we can enter the system and fix AFR.”

Thursday the ship’s agent cuts the booking: particulars incomplete, this sailing will not load. Sales wants to retitle the same PDF as air, and to type “AFR completed” into the Trade Assurance remark. The carrier is still asking the same three questions: does this booking need only the shipping company’s master filing, or also an NVOCC house filing; which departure is the clock facing; and whether this short-distance route may use the relaxed deadline. How the bill later controls release at destination is a different page — see original, telex or sea waybill. Put “who files Japan’s advance cargo information” on the scorecard when you pick a forwarder — see how to choose a freight forwarder. A Japanese electrical buyer who also wants PSE is another box — see PSE. Do not staple that mark into the AFR pack.

Do not reply that you “have a clearance channel” and that AFR is “in the freight.” Stop three things the same day: do not hand over the master login, do not retitle a United States ISF acknowledgement, and do not mark a Trade Assurance sail date the carrier has not confirmed for loading. The order a sales desk can use is the one below: name who files the master and who files the house, name the departure clock, hand over this week’s fields, match the two bill numbers, answer the login request, then stop sales and the floor when Japan Customs sends a risk code.

Name it first: the master sits with the shipping company, the house with the NVOCC

Japan Customs writes the Advance Filing Rules as a duty to electronically submit detailed information on maritime container cargoes to be loaded on a vessel intending to enter a port in Japan, before that vessel leaves the port of loading. The obliged parties split by bill level. Under Customs Law Article 15-7, the operator of the foreign trading vessel who holds Ocean / Master B/L cargo information — the shipping company — files the master. Under Article 15-8 and the Order for Enforcement, the consignor who uses that shipping company’s carriage, holds House B/L information, and has a freight contract with the shipping company — the NVOCC, a non-vessel-operating common carrier — files the house. The implementation page is the Japan Customs AFR site. The rules have been in force since March 2014.

Before sales answers the first mail, do not talk about “whose AFR is cheaper.” Ask the person who booked the space for three written lines: whether this booking has a house bill; which shipping company will file the master; and which NVOCC will file the house. If those three lines do not come back, do not write “we will file AFR” in chat, and do not send the plant off to register a NACCS Reporter ID.

A Hong Kong PI, a mainland stuffing floor and a Shenzhen booking can sit on the same week and still leave no one automatically named as the AFR filer. The contract seller owes delivery and documents. That is not the same as being the shipping company, and it is not the same as being the NVOCC. Store membership wired to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED buys a showcase. Japan Customs does not see the store, and the store does not register anyone as a NACCS user.

FOB with a buyer-nominated forwarder does not mean the advance filing already has an owner. The nominated forwarder books space and moves the bill — see how to choose a freight forwarder. Whether that office is the shipping company, the NVOCC, or only the messenger still needs their written confirmation. CIF, where the seller books, still needs the same question to the ocean carrier: does this booking have a house. The Incoterm says who buys freight. It does not say who signs the AFR box.

Japan Customs writes three carve-outs in plain words. Empty containers do not need this filing. Cargo loaded on platform containers classified as “P0” in the ISO6346 detailed code does not need this filing. Maritime container cargoes which are not discharged or unloaded in Japan do not need this filing. Lamps, locks and boxed furniture stuffed into a dry box are none of those three. Do not grant yourselves an empty-box exemption because a salesperson said “it is only hardware.” Cargo that tranships at Busan and then goes on to Tokyo still needs the Japan-bound leg named: which vessel intending to enter a Japanese port, and which load-port departure that vessel will make. Cargo that will transit Japan without discharge is a different sentence. Ask the carrier whether this booking will be discharged in Japan. Do not self-exempt in the group chat because someone typed “T/S Japan.”

A shipping company that files only the master, and an NVOCC that files only the house, still have to know that the other slice exists. Japan Customs tells shipping companies that when house bills sit under a master, the master filing must mark that fact, which often means asking the NVOCC whether houses exist. The NVOCC’s house filing must carry the same vessel code, voyage, carrier code, load-port code and master number as the master already filed. That exchange is the carrier’s and the NVOCC’s work. The Hong Kong seller’s work this week is to stop writing “we will hang AFR” until those two names are on paper.

Do not fold the origin export declaration, the destination import entry, and this advance cargo filing into one “Japan papers complete” sentence. The export entry says how the cargo left the load country. The import entry says who will clear the goods in Japan and who pays duty. AFR sits before both of those windows: detailed container-cargo information must already be in NACCS before the vessel leaves the load port, so Japan Customs can run risk analysis. The three files may share a product name and a weight. One acknowledgement retitled will not fill the other two boxes.

The clock faces departure from the load port, not loading

Japan Customs writes the deadline against the date and time of departure, which both the persons obliged to file and Customs can confirm. In principle, under the Order for Enforcement, the filing is due 24 hours before a foreign trading vessel leaves the port of loading, intending to enter a Japanese port with the cargo loaded there. The United States ISF writes eight of ten elements no later than 24 hours before the cargo is laden aboard the vessel at the foreign port — see ISF. Forwarders collapse both rules into “24 hours.” The clocks are not the same. AFR’s zero is the hour the vessel leaves that load port. It is not the hour the plant stuffs the box, and it is not the hour the crane puts the box on the ship.

Operationally, do not aim at “24 hours before sailing” as the day you first send fields. Carrier cut-off and terminal cut-off usually sit earlier than departure, and often earlier than loading. Docs should back up from the earlier cut-off: master and house fields must be ready to hand to the obliged party before that cut-off, not on the night the vessel name is confirmed. When the plant stuffs on Thursday, the goods description and the consignee’s legal name should already sit with the forwarder.

Short-distance routes have a written relaxation. The Rules on Enforcement allow filing by the departure of the vessel from the load port when the cargo is loaded in an “Area other than Japan” listed in the current appended table and will be discharged at an “Area in Japan” that is the first port of arrival listed in that same table. Older Customs summaries name neighbouring countries and territories — for example Korea and China — destined for certain Japanese ports. That is an illustration, not a standing list you can lock into every Ningbo–Yokohama contract. Whether Yantian, Ningbo or Shanghai to Tokyo, Yokohama or Osaka is a relaxed route this week follows the current Japan Customs table and the carrier’s writing for this vessel and voyage. Do not copy last booking’s Busan transhipment practice. Do not assume “all China–Japan sailings file at departure.” When you ask, send load port, first Japanese port, vessel and voyage, and keep the written cut-off that comes back.

Split the clock into four boxes on the booking memo: planned factory stuffing date, forwarder cut-off, estimated loading date, estimated load-port departure. AFR counts back 24 hours from departure, and in practice you move the fields earlier to beat cut-off. If the carrier writes that this booking uses the short-distance relaxation, you still follow that carrier’s internal document cut. Do not rewrite the deadline as “the night the vessel sails” in WeChat. You can collect people and goods descriptions before the vessel is named. Transmit when the booking number exists. You do not wait for the original bill to print.

Cargo that tranships and then sails for Japan faces the departure of the vessel that intends to enter the Japanese port, from that transhipment load port. European cargo that changes to a mother vessel in Singapore for Tokyo counts back from Singapore departure, not from the European load port. Sales should not say “Europe already filed a manifest.” Ask the carrier: which departure does this booking’s AFR face. A change of vessel after filing is the shipping company’s NACCS correction, not a reason for the seller to invent a second clock.

Friday’s “two hours before CY and the house is empty” is usually Tuesday’s clock error, not a new regulation. When the plant stuffs on Thursday, the people and the goods description should already sit with the obliged party. If you are still chasing a legal consignee address on stuffing day, this booking is already racing the cut-off. The instruction to the plant can be: stuffing may keep its slot; without a named filer and matching fields, do not promise that “the box out the gate means AFR is done.”

Do not lock “AFR always 24 hours before departure” into every Japan ocean contract either. The principle is 24 hours before load-port departure. The short-distance table may move that to by departure. The carrier’s CY cut will sit earlier still. Write the carrier’s written cut-off for this booking. Keep a spoken hour-count, and last month’s Korea sailing, out of the PI.

Fields for the obliged party this week — not the US ten

Japan Customs writes the data elements in a master column and a house column. Shipping-company screens differ. The seller should not invent a site-wide “official fifteen fields,” and should not treat a showcase marketing name, a Trade Assurance screenshot or a membership receipt as a completed filing. Tick this carrier’s or this NVOCC’s list for this booking. Do not invent a story for a box that is not on the list. If a box is on the list and you hold the fact, send it in the wording that already matches the invoice.

What a Hong Kong seller usually holds, and what the obliged party most often still lacks, falls into four groups. People: the shipper’s legal name and address as on the commercial invoice and the booking, not the store display name or a WeChat nick; the consignee’s legal name and address, not only a purchaser’s private email; a notify party on its own line if that person is not the consignee. Goods: a generic name from the specification sheet, not “premium gift lock”; package count, kind of packing, and gross weight that match the packing list; the real carton count, not a number that drifted from the shop-floor daily report. Documents: the booking number, the house number, the master number when it exists; a house must still point back to the same master. Vessel: name, voyage, load port and discharge port from this booking confirmation. Do not copy last week’s other Japan box.

Goods description is the break Japan Customs has pointed at more than once. The official page warns that house descriptions that are inappropriate, or that arrive after the deadline, delay loading, discharge or delivery. Do not write FAK, general cargo, gifts or parts. Locks need material and use. Lamps need whether they ship with a power supply. Furniture needs material. Use the same words as the bill of lading description. Do not write the bill in detail and the AFR in shorthand. Japan Customs publishes examples of unacceptable items; a marketing line that looks tidy on the showcase is often the line NACCS will reject.

The channel is NACCS — the Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System, operated by NACCS Center. Shipping companies register master cargo information (AMR). NVOCCs register house cargo information (AHR). A seller without a Reporter ID hands the fields to the obliged party and asks for the process result. A WeChat photo with no completion or error notice is an undelivered filing. When electronic filing through NACCS is difficult because of a disaster or a system failure, Japan Customs allows a written form. That is the obliged party calling the designated Customs contact point. It is not sales filling a homemade spreadsheet and calling it official.

Do not staple the ISF ten, an ICS2 Entry Summary Declaration, the origin export entry and a VGM weigh ticket into one “security pack.” Those filings may share a product name and a weight. One acknowledgement with a new title will not fill the Japan box. ISF answers whether, on cargo bound for the United States, the importer side has lodged ten elements with CBP, on a clock that faces loading. ICS2 answers whether, on cargo bound for or through the EU, safety and security data have been lodged at the office of first entry. VGM answers whether this packed container’s verified gross mass reached the carrier before that carrier’s cutoff. AFR answers whether Japan has master and house cargo information in NACCS before this load-port departure. Split the folders by destination. A United States method copied onto this Yokohama box is the same class of error as a Japan method copied onto Los Angeles.

Send the fields to docs and to the obliged party first. Do not put them into a buyer email that says “AFR completed.” If the carrier writes back that the consignee address is still missing, or that the house does not point at the master, tell sales the same day: do not send any line that says “filed / vessel can sail.” Only when the list matches do you write, for the internal file, that the seller has handed over this booking’s AFR particulars on the carrier’s list and that the shipping company or the named NVOCC will file. Keep screenshots in the internal folder. Do not send a rejected message number to the buyer as proof.

What the shop floor can do is lock the packed count and the description before the cut-off. If the packing list is still moving and cartons are still being added, the particulars in the NVOCC’s hands will not match the cargo on the ship. How fast the seller supplies a matching field decides whether the obliged party can file before this booking’s cut-off. It does not decide whether sales may write “we are being helpful” in the chat.

When master and house numbers disagree, where the cargo stops

On a booking that has a house, the two filings must sit on the same cargo. Japan Customs requires the shipping company and the NVOCC to exchange vessel, voyage, master number, and whether houses exist. When those strings disagree, NACCS issues discrepancy information. The official handling note says the two filers cooperate so that risk analysis is not disturbed; receiving a discrepancy notice is not, by itself, a reason to telephone Customs in advance. The Hong Kong seller’s job this week is still the match on paper. Put the booking acknowledgement, the house draft and the invoice header on one checklist: is the house shipper the invoice seller; is the consignee the Japanese party’s legal name; do weight and package count match the packing list; does the house point back to the same master number.

Inventing a master number in a house draft before the master exists is the Thursday break that repeats. The master number appears after booking and often after loading — see how to choose a bill of lading — while the AFR deadline faces departure. Until the master is out, match on the booking number the carrier has already given in writing. Do not reuse last shipment’s bill number. Telex release, original bills and sea waybills govern how cargo is released at destination. They do not tell you whether two AFR slices have linked.

When the numbers do not match, where the cargo stops is on the carrier’s acknowledgement, not on a spoken lead time from sales. The stop may be at load-port stowage. It may also be after sailing, as a suspended discharge in Japan. Japan Customs also writes that if cargo information is not filed by the deadline, penalties may apply and the cargo cannot be unloaded without discharge permission. What the seller can do is supply a matching field at once and ask the carrier to confirm that the discrepancy has cleared. What the seller cannot do is open a second booking and rename the cargo, change one digit on a rejected number and resubmit, or promise that “it will clear before Yokohama.”

One booking split across several boxes is filed by container and by bill level. Do not merge four boxes into one goods description so the sheet looks tidy. One LCL lot still owes house fields for this cargo. The master consolidator does not automatically overwrite your seller and your place of manufacture. If the forwarder says “we file LCL as one,” you still need the named NVOCC and this booking’s house number. Do not take “we file as one” as the whole file. Equipment choice sits on FCL versus LCL. That page picks the box. It does not file AFR.

If the multiple houses under one master are not all registered, the NVOCC’s completion identifier is the NVOCC’s problem, not a reason for sales to invent a missing house. If vessel information will change at transhipment and the new vessel is not yet known, the NVOCC may mark that the house should follow the master’s later vessel update. That is a NACCS field on the house filing. It is not a licence for the seller to keep sending last week’s voyage as if it were this week’s.

Match the numbers before the cargo is loaded. Do not wait until the vessel has sailed and then reconcile in the group chat. If one line on the checklist fails, fix the papers before the obliged party files. Do not let sales reply “numbers sent, please release” first. A house that names a different shipper from the invoice, or a consignee that is only an email, will come back as a description or party problem even if the bill numbers happen to match.

When the forwarder wants the master login or says “file NACCS yourself”

Wednesday’s request for the master login is usually convenience, not a Japan Customs rule. AFR is filed in NACCS. It is not filed in the Alibaba.com admin. The master login can change the showcase, open sub-accounts and read inquiries. Giving the forwarder that login will not complete the master or the house. It only adds a person who can enter the store. Membership wired to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED still buys a showcase. A forwarder with the login still is not the shipping company, and still is not the NVOCC.

If the forwarder says “apply for a Reporter ID and hang AFR yourselves,” stop. The obliged party is the shipping company or the NVOCC. A Hong Kong seller with no freight contract and no house bill who transmits a message will put the wrong person on the filing. NACCS connectivity is either a gateway from the filer’s own system or a service provider; a Reporter ID is issued through NACCS Center’s issuance system for filers who use a provider. That path is for the party Japan Customs named. What most factories must do this week is complete the fields so a shipping company or a named NVOCC who already has access can file. It is not to send sales off to register a messaging system.

Sales answers the forwarder in full sentences, not “no login.” A block you can paste: “Japan Customs requires detailed cargo information on maritime containers to be loaded on a vessel intending to enter a Japanese port to be submitted through NACCS before departure from the port of loading. The shipping company files the Ocean / Master B/L. The NVOCC files the House B/L. Please confirm in writing whether this booking has a house, who the obliged party is, and whether this booking’s departure cut-off uses the short-distance relaxation on the current Japan Customs table. As contract seller we can supply this booking’s shipper, consignee, goods description, package count and weight, and a booking number that can match the master or the house. We will not send the Alibaba.com master login. Store membership buys a showcase and is not a filing with Japan Customs.”

Do not write: “here is the master login, we will change the password later”; “the United States ISF already filed, so AFR is done”; “we will pay the official fine, file a rough description first”; “all short-distance routes file on sailing day.” The last two lines write the goods description and the clock wrong in the same sentence. If the forwarder says there is no booking without the login, split booking from AFR: the booking can proceed; the filing waits for a named obliged party and matching fields.

If an authorisation must be signed so the forwarder can collect fields or speak to the NVOCC, the paper names this booking or container number, a purpose limited to this AFR, and an expiry. A sheet with no booking, no expiry and a line that says “all customs matters” comes back unsigned. Corpable does not collect those papers and does not hold master logins. An advisor only helps you see which field is still empty.

When the buyer’s own office in Japan asks for fields, send the field list, not the master login. Their right to see the cargo sits on the commercial relationship and the bill, not on the seller’s store admin. Do not attach the membership receipt to the ship’s-agent pack. Japan Customs is not registering the showcase.

Short-distance routes, transhipment, empty boxes: do not copy last week’s cutoff

China–Japan sailings are where the cutoff is most often copied wrong. The forwarder says “this is short-distance, file on sailing day.” Japan Customs’ relaxed deadline applies only when the load port is an “Area other than Japan” on the current appended table and the first port in Japan is also on that table. If either port is off the table, the clock is still 24 hours before departure. Yantian–Tokyo, Ningbo–Osaka and a Busan transhipment to Yokohama can be three clocks. Ask the carrier in one mail that names the load port, the first Japanese port, the vessel and the voyage, and get writing that says 24 hours before departure or filing by departure. A chat that says “all China–Japan is short” does not go on the production calendar.

If the box tranships toward Japan, the cutoff faces the vessel that will enter Japan when it leaves that transhipment load port. A European load-port manifest does not fill AFR. A Singapore relay faces Singapore departure; a Busan relay faces Busan departure. Do not say “the first leg already filed.” A barge can sail without the ocean vessel’s AFR having been accepted. Ask for the ocean vessel and voyage cutoff.

Empty containers, ISO6346 detail-code P0 platform boxes, and maritime container cargo that will not be discharged in Japan sit outside the rule. If this booking is only an empty reposition, follow the carrier’s writing. Do not paste a laden goods description onto an empty filing. If this booking is laden and the forwarder treats it as empty, send it back the same day. Transit through Japan that will be unloaded and restuffed is “discharged in Japan” until the carrier writes otherwise.

Several boxes on one booking still take a description and a bill level that can match each box. Do not add four boxes into one FAK line. On groupage you still supply this house’s fields. If the forwarder says “we file the whole box,” you still want the NVOCC’s legal name and this house number. How to choose the box sits on FCL or LCL. That page does not name the AFR filer.

A rolled sailing, a miss, or a feeder that missed the Japan mother vessel cannot rename last voyage’s AFR onto the new one. New departure cutoff, new master and house numbers, new list. Void the old PDF. A Trade Assurance sailing date follows the platform’s current rule and the backend prompt. Do not use “AFR filed” to mark a box that is not yet on a Japan voyage.

Delete these contract sentences: “seller handles all Japan AFR and clearance,” “the Hong Kong company is registered with Japan Customs,” “the AFR fine is in the unit price,” “store verification equals AFR.” Write instead: the shipping company files the master and the NVOCC files the house; the seller supplies shipper, consignee, goods description and matching bill numbers; the cutoff follows load-port departure and the carrier’s writing; short-distance relaxation follows the current Japan Customs table; Customs handling follows the current notice; the unit price does not lock a yen penalty. Do not print “AFR certified” on the showcase.

Japan Customs sent DNL, HLD or DNU: what sales and the floor stop

Japan Customs provides an advance notice to the filer, in principle within 24 hours after receiving the cargo information, when risk analysis says measures should be taken — for example suspending discharge in Japan. If Customs later obtains new security intelligence, a notice can still go out after those 24 hours. When the cause is resolved, Customs cancels the notice. The codes a sales desk will hear this week are DNL, HLD and DNU. Use the NACCS notice the carrier relays. Do not translate a WeChat paraphrase into a delivery promise.

DNL is sent when cargo information filed in time for a 24-hour-before-loading analysis is identified as high-risk and cannot be brought into Japan. HLD names the addition or correction Customs still needs. DNU is sent in two written cases: Japan Customs finds a security threat after the vessel has left the load port, and discharge at the Japanese port is suspended; or an HLD was never cancelled, the vessel left anyway, and discharge stays suspended unless the requested information is filed or corrected before the vessel enters a Japanese port. The official page also records SPD when filing is overdue and discharge then needs a cargo-discharge permission. Sales does not need to recite that procedure to the buyer. Sales does need to stop promising an unload while any of those notices is open.

What sales stops that day is the external promise, not the internal collection of fields. Stop: Friday arrival at Yokohama, discharge granted, AFR completed, official security fee included in the unit price. Do not stop: asking the floor for packed count and the locked description, asking the buyer for the consignee’s legal address, asking the carrier for this booking’s departure cut-off and the NACCS code actually received. The mail to the buyer uses complete sentences. It names the code the carrier relayed and the field still missing. It does not say “system issue, delivery unaffected.” Do not mark a Trade Assurance shipment as shipped while the carrier has not confirmed that this sailing will load.

What the floor stops that day is any move that locks the cargo onto the wrong description. Until the code is written down, do not send unlocked pallets to the terminal; do not print AFR, NACCS or cleared on the carton, the pallet or the invoice; do not create a second “sample” booking of the same lot in the hope of slipping past the filing. Japan Customs writes maritime container cargo to be loaded on a vessel intending to enter a Japanese port. It does not write an exemption you grant yourselves by calling the lot a sample or a gift set. Cartons already marked with the wrong consignee or the wrong count stop until docs and the carrier have matched again, then you decide whether to restencil or to amend the filing.

Finance that day deletes “official AFR fee” and “Japan Customs official charge” from the unit price. There is no site-wide official price. A document fee the carrier or the forwarder charges on this booking goes in the freight breakdown — see how a forwarder quote is split — and is not written as a Customs charge. Customs law prescribes a penalty; current statute and Customs notice govern. Do not lock a yen figure from a chat screenshot into the PI. Do not ask finance to accrue an “official AFR fine.” Do not buy an “urgent release number” from a broker to catch the vessel. Japan Customs does not sell discharge as an official service you can purchase on WeChat.

Rebooking air to “save” an ocean container that was cut starts with the new carrier’s air filing, not with a retitled AFR PDF. Master and house numbers from the ocean leg must not be mixed into the air file. The mode-change mail from sales must say: the ocean booking number is void for this cut, the air booking will be re-collected on the new list, and the old PDF is not an attachment. A Japanese electrical buyer who still wants PSE on the same week keeps that work on the PSE page. A risk code on AFR does not become a diamond or circle mark, and a PSE file does not close a DNL.

1. The day of the notice, sales and docs hand over: the carrier’s written obliged party, whether a house exists, the load-port departure cut-off, the booking number and any bill numbers already issued.
2. The same day the floor hands over: the locked goods description, package count, and gross and net weight. Unlocked pallets do not go to the terminal.
3. Until the carrier relays that DNL, HLD or DNU has been cancelled, sales does not mark Trade Assurance shipped and does not write a Japanese arrival date.
4. A change of vessel takes the new voyage’s departure cut-off before the floor plan changes. Old master and house numbers are not reused.
5. Cartons and invoices do not show AFR certified. A membership receipt does not go into the ship’s-agent pack.

If the cargo is already on the water and the carrier still says a field is missing, sales can send a written list of the legal names, description, count, weight and booking number already supplied, and of the box the carrier still lacks; ask whether the stop is a discrepancy, an HLD that has become DNU, or an overdue filing that will need discharge permission; and mark VGM and United States papers as attachments on their own paths. Sales cannot invent a Reporter ID, promise discharge before arrival, or ask the forwarder to apply an “AFR” sticker at a transhipment port. If a penalty follows, it follows the current statute and Customs notice. Do not invent a yen figure or an official processing clock in the letter to the buyer.

On the contract and the PI, delete these lines: “seller is responsible for all Japan AFR and clearance”; “the Hong Kong company is registered with Japan Customs”; “AFR penalties are included in the unit price”; “store verification equals AFR.” Write instead: the shipping company files the master and the NVOCC files the house on this booking; the seller supplies shipper, consignee, description and matching numbers; Customs’ handling follows the current notice; the unit price does not lock an official penalty. How the bill later releases cargo still sits on the bill note. Do not fold that sentence into the AFR line.

Corpable can sit with you on whether this booking is master-only or also house, which departure the clock faces, and which field is still empty. We do not file into NACCS, become the shipping company or the NVOCC, or guarantee discharge at a Japanese port. Membership still wires to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED.

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