Arrival Notice AWB
Arrival Notice AWB: Air waybill / AWB (air arrival notice (notice of arrival) in international shipping of air freight only. Arrival notice (also called notice of arrival) (air-way-bill / AWB ) respect of international shipping of airfreight is an international shipping document issued by an air freight carrier or air freight's agent to consignee/recipient of internationally shipped goods (and to the notify party, if any) to inform about the arrival of international airfreight shipment. Arrival notice (notice of arrival) provides shipment details and charges and documents required to enable the consignee to make customs clearance and arrange pickup and delivery of his/her international shipment.
Besides of essential information duplicated from international airfreight bill of lading such us the international airfreight bill of lading number, sailing details (name of vessel, voyage, etd, eta), number and description of shipping units etc., arrival notice (notice of arrival) should also provide complete information related to the international shipping cargo recovery at the destination:
- Air freight carrier's or the Air freight carrier's release charges
- Cargo location address and contact phone number
- LOT number associated with the freight location or other reference(s) related to the freight identification
- Instruction on the international shipment recovery etc.
BELOW: Page 1. Example of air-way-bill / AWB for airline Page 2, 3 and 4 split shipment.
- If air shipment directly with airline, they will be issuing air-way-bill / AWB (99%).
- But, if export freight forwarder has issued Bill of Lading , your import freight forwarder will be issuing airline air-way-bill / AWB and arrival notice. .
- Split ship is charge double, also clearing time will take triple or quadruple of the time normal shipment.
- (example/look below #1, 2 and 3: out of 125 boxes, only 93 got on airline 10 29 2015, other 32 was 2 days later 10 31 2015)
Importers are responsible for all fees, us laws and international laws.
Bill-of-lading (BL) (aka: straight bill of lading (nonnegotiable) with Telex Release / surrender / Express Release or original- Bill of Lading (OBL). Wikipedia. Org. Bill-of-lading (BL) is issued before leaving foreign port by shipper/ NVOCC /off/oti (glossary) (what is Bill of Lading (BL) (examples of bl) (click here) (incoterms) arrival notice (an) is issued 5 days before shipment is us port, by bl agent in us=aka freight forwarder ( NVOCC /off/oti) (glossary) (arrival notice?)( LCL )(full)(air) issuer of an was pre-chosen (incoterms) by issuer of bl, issuer of an is to oversee movement of your cargo to CFS warehouse ( LCL ) / seaport (container) / airport.
Freight released is issued by your freight forwarder (issuer of arrival notice = agent of Bill of Lading (BL) / obl, after you have sat ISF y your freight forwarder needs customs released is issued by your customs broker / U.S. Customs / agencies, after your shipment is cleared and you have paid your entry filing fee, (click here) and look 1-11.
- on most of Bill of Lading , notify party is known as: customs broker, customs agent, ISF and entry filer with domestic trucker.
- on most of Bill of Lading , issuer of arrival notice is known as: (also, after these text, below there are 12 different Bill of Lading as examples) shipper agent, for delivery of goods please contact, forwarding agent, domestic routing/export instructions, for release of shipment please contact, delivery agent, for delivery please apply to, document presentation, cargo releasing agent, for arrival info and release of cargo contact.
Fyi, other bill: clean bill of lading, claused bill of lading (aka "dirty bill of lading" or "foul bill of lading. "). Uniform bill of lading, bill of lading, bill of sale, ocean bill of lading, inland bill of lading, through bill of lading, stale bill of lading, negotiable bills of lading, functions of bill of lading, carrier on bill of lading, lash bill of lading, switch bill of lading, proforma bill of lading (normally given before leaving), onboard bill of lading (normally given after cargo has left) what, how, when and why bill of lading is use.
Let your supplier(s) do Telex Release / surrender / Express Release (this will saves time, monies and headache), but if you do received a original- Bill of Lading (OBL) from your shipper/factory/supplier, "sign / date the OBL (any place on OBL)" and keep two copy for yourself and fed-ex/ups other to "issuer of arrival notice = agent of BL" usually, if you received OBL, if you made only partial payment and etc. against your shipment to your shipper/factory/supplier, before the shipping. (OBL = title to your cargo).
Please list us as notify party on Bill of Lading (BL) and we will do 99% of the work for you or all we need is your factory/supplier info (email and name), also, you could give our below info to your factory/supplier as customs clearing agent and notify party on bl.
- U.S. Customs Clearing
- 2018 pacific coast Hwy, suite #201. Lomita, ca 90717
- (213) 270-1930
If exam is issued by U.S. Customs /agencies, such as intensive examination notice (stop sign), IBET-exam, A-TCET -exam, USDA -exam or any other exam and if your Bill of Lading (BL) / arrival notice (an) is required original- Bill of Lading (OBL), your ""freight forwarder (issuer of arrival notice = agent of Bill of Lading (BL) "" must received your ""sign/date OBL (any place on OBL)"" from you, before your shipment/container could be moved to exam site, until then, you maybe paying storage fees/demurrage fees and other fees. With or with-out exam, your ""freight forwarder (issuer of arrival notice = agent of Bill of Lading (BL) "" must receive ""sign/date the OBL (any place on OBL)"" to freight-release your shipment to you, OBL is consignee/importer responsibility only. (OBL = title).
All shipment are bound to incoterms (pre-arranged to us port/ CFS , before leaving foreign port). To understand why/who importer must pay, before/ after/ during shipping, you must review incoterms/icc/uncitral and contact issuer of bl / arrival notice. Customs broker is messenger between U.S. Customs and you, only.
- All importer are bound to incoterms (pre-arranged, 72 hours/3 days before leaving foreign port. Fyi: to calculate weight distribution of vessel, carrier manifest and etc.
- Such as: loadingimport specialist onto vessel (foreign forwarder/ issuer of Bill of Lading ), unloading from vessel (us forwarder/ issuer arrival notice of LCL / full) and warehouse / port)
- By you accepting an Bill of Lading from your vendors (supplier/factory/shipper/shipping-company), you are bound to incoterms (international commercial terms)
- To understand why/what/who importer must pay, before/after/during shipping, importer/buyer must know incoterms (international commercial terms).
- Incoterms published by international chamber of commerce (icc) and recognized by united nations commission on international trade law as global common terms.
- If you don't know your own incoterms, contact issuer of Bill of Lading (aka: Bill of Sale ) manufacturers contract agreement (your supplier/factory/shipper/shipping-co)
- If you don't know your own incoterms, contact issuer of Bill of Lading (aka: Bill of Sale ) manufacturers contract agreement (your supplier/factory/shipper/shipping-co)
- Why can't supplier / factory / shipper / shipping-company arrange us domestic trucking, ISF filing and customs entry.
- Most of foreign supplier / shipper (issuer of Bill of Lading ) vary limited contact with domestic trucker and customs broker
- Your supplier in business of MFG and your shipping-company in business of shipping, they are not in business of knowing U.S. Customs rule and regulations, we are.
Note:
- To arrange sea shipping, arranger must be your supplier or licenses by FMC.Gov ( NVOCC / OFF/ OTI) = issuer of Bill of Lading / LCL arrival notice / full arrival notice.
- To arrange air shipping, arranger must be your supplier or licenses by international air transport association ( IATA ) = issuer of Bill of Lading / air-way-bill ( AWB )
- To arrange domestic trucking, arranger must be licenses by FMCSA.Gov (mc# / dot#) / must have "filer-code" from U.S. Customs = issuer of pick-up- Bill of Lading .
- To file ISF and customs entry (customs agent / customs broker), filer must have "filer-code" from U.S. Customs = issuer of customs release documents.
- To track your shipment and type in your MBL number.
- Example / compare arrival notice (air shipment) (sea LCL shipment) (sea full container shipment) = fees (unloading from vessel and moving to warehouse).
First 2 HTC / HTS /harmonized tariff code classification are free, but after 2nd classification of items, each classification is $10 each per line. For example: if you are importing 4 different category items (on your Invoice / Packing List / Bill of Lading / ISF -form: 100 apples, 75 oranges, 50 toys and 25 desks), you will be charge extra $20 for ISF filing + other $20 for customs clearing entry filing. The fees are add it to your Invoice .
To avoided HTC / HTS /harmonized tariff code classification fees, please ask your factory/supplier to have it on the Invoice , Packing List and Bill of Lading (BL) , if your factory/supplier don't know the HTC / HTS /harmonized tariff code, you could look-up your own (duty/tax) HTC / HTS /harmonized tariff code (click here) or call and email U.S. Customs import specialist.
Also, first 2 factories/suppliers Invoice submission are free for customs clearing entry filing, under same Bill of Lading (b/l). For example: if you are importing from 3 different factories/suppliers with 3 different Invoice / Packing List . First 2 factories/suppliers Invoice / Packing List submission entry filing are free, but after 2nd Invoice / Packing List factory/supplier, you will be charge $20 per supplier/factory Invoice submission to U.S. Customs as additional Invoice s and will be add on to your customs clearing Invoice /fees.
Must described: what materials of each category are made out of at Invoice , Packing List and Bill of Lading . For example: if you are importing 10 of men's sweat shirt ( 80% cotton 20% polyester / HTC # ) / 5 tablecloth ( 100% polyester / HTC # ) / 20 desk (stainless steel / HTC # ) aluminum (aluminum ingot / HTC # ) and etc.
NOTE: If you are buying from two different factory/supplier, you could consolidated the shipment under one bl, but you can not consolidated under one Invoice / Packing List . It must be submitted as 2 different Invoice /factory/supplier to U.S. Customs . Each Bill of Lading (b/l) is considered as one shipment and it must be cleared as each bl by U.S. Customs /us.
