Notice Fees / Air Way Bill / Arrival Notice

  1. Air Way Bill / AWB is issued 1-3 days before shipment is us port:
  1. Export freight forwarder (EFF) = issuer bill of lading (BL) = pre-arranged before leaving foreign port, to warehouse / port / issuer of (AN) ( AWB ) and etc,.
  2. Import freight forwarder (IFF) = issuer of Airway Bill / AWB (5-7 days before cargo is in us): overseer of cargo to CFS warehouse / port.

Freight released is issued by your import freight forwarder / IFF (issuer of arrival notice = agent of Bill of Lading (BL) / OBL, after you have satisfy your IFF 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, and look 1-11. Bill-of-lading (BL) (aka: straight bill of lading (nonnegotiable) with Telex Release / surrender / Express Release or Original Bill of Lading (OBL). Bill-of-lading (BL) is issued before leaving foreign port by shipper/ NVOCC /OFF/OTI.

Below are the examples:
Page 1. Air-Way-Bill / AWB  from Airline
Page 2-8 Split shipment  (this Air-Way-Bill / AWB  was ORIGINAL with 125 box)
Page 3-8  Split shipment  (Air-Way-Bill with 93 box)
Page 4-8  Split shipment (Arrival Notice with 93 box)
Page 5-8  Split shipment (Cargo Manifest with 93 box)
Page 6-8  Split shipment  (Air-Way-Bill with 32 box)  (Also, it has different IT#, as to first split shipment)
Page 7-8  Split shipment (Arrival Notice with 32 box)  (Also, it has different IT#, as to first split shipment)
Page 8-8  Split shipment (Cargo Manifest with 32 box)  (Also, it has different IT#, as to first split shipment)

  1. If air shipment directly with airline, they will be issuing Airway Bill / AWB (99%)
  2. But, If Export Freight Forwarder has issued Bill of Lading,  your Import Freight Forwarder will be issuing Airline Air Way Bill / AWB  &  Arrival Notice.
  3. Split ship is charge double, also clearing time will take triple or quadruple of the time normal shipment.
  4. (Example/look below #1, 2 & 3:   Out of 125 boxes, only 93 got on Airline 10 29 2015,   other 32 was 2 days later 10 31 2015)

 

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.

Here are some reference of air shipment with arrival notice / air-way-bill / AWB / Invoice that could be compare with your arrival notice. (look below) (also, to compare your freight released , ( LCL sea arrival notice, full container sea arrival notice and air way bill/AWB your air warehouse: normally, after 2 free days, your warehouse will charge importer daily storage / demurrage. Your sea/ocean CFS warehouse: normally, after 5 free days, your warehouse will charger importer daily storage / demurrage. Also, before after free days, your warehouse may charge importer in/out fee, forklift, hand pallet, pallets, daily storage / demurrage. And etc. (example of warehouse fee). To understand why/who importer must pay, before/after/during shipping, you must review incoterms and contact issuer of Bill of Lading . (arrival notice glossary)

 

If you think, it's not cost-effective to pay all the fees (duty/tax, forwarder, trucker, warehouse, ISF filing, customs entry filing, exam and etc. ) you could abandon your shipment. There are three choices, shipment that was refused by U.S. customs/agencies. Sample of abandon letter.

  1. Re-exporting back to vendor / exporting to other-country:
  1. To export, your must contact your freight forwarder, company that has done your transportation to us port. .
  2. Your current freight forwarder will be helping you with 7512 (ie / immediate exportation) form.
  3. Local US customs officer must sign and if any, agencies officer must sign a 7512 (ie / immediate exportation) form.
  4. Local = city, county, state that you are in.
  5. Who is liable: case file: federal court U.S. attorney's, importer is responsible for all laws/liable/fees/retroactive.
  1. Abandon your shipment. Please notify your supplier/us forwarder/carrier and warehouse and us by email only.
  1. For abandoning, you may be penalize / fines / demurrage / per-diem / destroy / trash / add-dpl and etc.
  2. Examples of other shipment that was abandon, refused by U.S. customs/agencies and was not cost effective.
  3. Who is liable: case file: federal court U.S. attorney's, importer is responsible for all laws/liable/fees/retroactive.
  1. Destroy / trash email customs officer, warehouse and us by email only.
  1. If shipment is import with-out permit / permission hazard, patent, trademark and etc.
  2. You may be penalize / fines / demurrage / per-diem / destroy / trash / add-dpl and etc.
  3. Who is liable: case file: federal court U.S. attorney's, importer is responsible for all laws/liable/fees/retroactive.

All importer are bound to incoterms (pre-arranged before leaving foreign port). To understand why/who importer must pay, before/after/during shipping, importer must review incoterms and contact issuer of bill of lading / arrival notice LCL / FULL. Incoterms published by international chamber of commerce and recognized by united nations commission on international trade law as global common terms.

  1. U.S. freight forwarder issues arrival notice/( LCL /full), six or seven days before importer shipment is in us.
  2. Arrival notice/( LCL /full) is us freight forwarder (unload from vessel and moving it to warehouse) is reflection of Bill of Lading (instruction/permit to load onto vessel)
  3. Arrival notice/( LCL /full) is U.S. freight forwarder terms-of- Bill of Lading , agreement, including the date of transfer, timing of payment, title to your shipment and other provisions.
  4. All shipment are pre-arrange by issuer (importer/supplier/factory/mover-shipper) of Bill of Lading (aka / ie: bill-of-sale / shipping terms (loader terms), before the shipping.
  5. Most of pre-arrangement are CIF terms = are done with-out paying all vendor, such as arrival notice ( LCL /full), warehouse/port, ISF filing, customs clearing, exam and etc.
  6. After you have pay your arrival notice / Invoice (sea LCL /full/ AWB ) to your us freight forwarder, they will be email a freight released (turnover / freight-release /. Carrier-released / released-order / steam-ship-release) to you, your warehouse, port, trucker, customs broker and etc.

Why can't supplier / factory / shipper / shipping-company arrange us domestic trucking, ISF filing and customs entry.

  1. Most of foreign supplier / shipper (issuer of Bill of Lading ) vary limited contact with domestic trucker and customs broker
  2. Your supplier in business of MFG and your shipping-company in business of shipping, they are not in business of knowing US customs rule and regulations, we are.

Note:

  1. 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.
  2. 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 )
  3. To arrange domestic trucking, arranger must be licenses by FMCSA.gov (mc# / dot#) / must have "filer-code" from US customs = issuer of pick-up- Bill of Lading .
  4. To file ISF and customs entry (customs agent / customs broker), filer must have "filer-code" from US customs = issuer of customs release documents.

Note: final ruling by US customs/agencies for ISF filing (part 1-2) is 6 years and for customs entry filing (part 2-2) is 5 years.

  1. Customs broker = broker between US customs and importer only: to transmits importer info/documents, way it was received from you and your-vendors, to US customs
  2. Customs broker = is not a broker between you and your-vendors (factory / supplier / forwarder / warehouse / shipping-company / cet-exam-site, U.S. agencies and etc. )
  3. Please pay all your-vendors directly (asap), to avoid our $50 (service fees to avoid). Check here if amending/up-dating your entry filing. And check here if entry must be re-file.
  4. Importer is responsible for all fees/us laws/liability/exam/permit(s)retroactive(backdate) document (BL, arrival notice and etc. ) case file: federal court U.S. attorney's.
  5. Your responsibility = your shipment / money / profit / sells / documents / permit, your-vendors (factory/supplier/forwarder and etc. ), your arrangement/negotiation and etc.
  6. Exam notice by freight forwarder: LCL arrival notice, full container arrival notice. AD/CVD, fumigation, emergency action notifications can be $1,000's.
  7. Fumigating your shipment can be $7,205, vacuum cleaning can be $1,900 and A-TCET exam / intensive exam/stop sign / CET exam can be $1,843. 60 / $2,059. 90.
  8. If exam (VACIS, nii, x-ray (reefer), IBET, MET, CET and etc,), your freight forwarder will be notifying with arrival notice and Invoice (pay your freight forwarder) (99% time).
  9. If exam ( CET exam , A-TCET exam, intensive exam/stop sign, IPR, tailgate, emergency action notifications and etc,), importer must pay directly to exam site. (100%)
  10. If importer / id=(SSN # or tax-id/EIN/IRS# or can#) or any info is off-by-one-digit/letter, US customs will confiscate/seize your shipment and penalize/fines/etc you.
  11. And uscustoms/agencies can release with detention(hold)/hold/confiscate/penalize/fines/recall/examine/ ISF penalty/re- ISF filing/issue destroy/re-export and etc.
  12. Bill-of-lading / BL(aka: bill-of-sale) / original / OBL = arrival notice / manufacturers contract agreement / shipping terms = (title to shipment, provisions and etc)
  13. You /importer/ consignee is fully responsible for all actions of payment (be aware of scam hijack emails and other scams).
  14. Before paying us, consignee must verify payment method and amount of payment, and such as our bank account#, western-union account#, check payable to and etc,.
  15. Only valid communication is, if you/importer/consignee/your-vendors is communicating by phone# and email lists from our uscustomsclearing.com.
  16. LE / IT / TE ( ISF 5) / 7512 preparation instructions.

Air Way Bill Sample Documents

Air Way Bill / AWB:
Page 2-8 Split shipment (this Air-Way-Bill was ORIGINAL with 125 box) . a. IF Air shipment Directly with Airline, they will be issuing Air-Way-Bill / AWB (99%) . b. But, IF Export Freight Forwarder has issued Bill-of-Lading, your Import Freight Forwarder will be issuing Airline Air-Way-Bill / AWB & Arrival Notice. . c. Split ship is charge double, also clearing time will take triple or quadruple of the time normal shipment. . d. (Example/look below #1, 2 & 3: Out of 125 boxes, only 93 got on Airline 10 29 2015, other 32 was 2 days later 10 31 2015)
Page 3-8 Split shipment (Air-Way-Bill with 93 box) . a. IF Air shipment Directly with Airline, they will be issuing Air-Way-Bill / AWB (99%) . b. But, IF Export Freight Forwarder has issued Bill-of-Lading, your Import Freight Forwarder will be issuing Airline Air-Way-Bill / AWB & Arrival Notice. . c. Split ship is charge double, also clearing time will take triple or quadruple of the time normal shipment. . d. (Example/look below #1, 2 & 3: Out of 125 boxes, only 93 got on Airline 10 29 2015, other 32 was 2 days later 10 31 2015)
Page 4-8 Split shipment (Air-Way-Bill with 93 box) . a. IF Air shipment Directly with Airline, they will be issuing Air-Way-Bill / AWB (99%) . b. But, IF Export Freight Forwarder has issued Bill-of-Lading, your Import Freight Forwarder will be issuing Airline Air-Way-Bill / AWB & Arrival Notice. . c. Split ship is charge double, also clearing time will take triple or quadruple of the time normal shipment. . d. (Example/look below #1, 2 & 3: Out of 125 boxes, only 93 got on Airline 10 29 2015, other 32 was 2 days later 10 31 2015)
Page 5-8 Split shipment (Cargo Manifest with 93 box) . a. IF Air shipment Directly with Airline, they will be issuing Air-Way-Bill / AWB (99%) . b. But, IF Export Freight Forwarder has issued Bill-of-Lading, your Import Freight Forwarder will be issuing Airline Air-Way-Bill / AWB & Arrival Notice. . c. Split ship is charge double, also clearing time will take triple or quadruple of the time normal shipment. . d. (Example/look below #1, 2 & 3: Out of 125 boxes, only 93 got on Airline 10 29 2015, other 32 was 2 days later 10 31 2015)
Page 6-8 Split shipment (Air-Way-Bill with 32 box) (Also, it has different IT#, as to first split shipment) . a. IF Air shipment Directly with Airline, they will be issuing Air-Way-Bill / AWB (99%) . b. But, IF Export Freight Forwarder has issued Bill-of-Lading, your Import Freight Forwarder will be issuing Airline Air-Way-Bill / AWB & Arrival Notice. . c. Split ship is charge double, also clearing time will take triple or quadruple of the time normal shipment. . d. (Example/look below #1, 2 & 3: Out of 125 boxes, only 93 got on Airline 10 29 2015, other 32 was 2 days later 10 31 2015)
Page 7-8 Split shipment (Arrival Notice with 32 box) (Also, it has different IT#, as to first split shipment) . a. IF Air shipment Directly with Airline, they will be issuing Air-Way-Bill / AWB (99%) . b. But, IF Export Freight Forwarder has issued Bill-of-Lading, your Import Freight Forwarder will be issuing Airline Air-Way-Bill / AWB & Arrival Notice. . c. Split ship is charge double, also clearing time will take triple or quadruple of the time normal shipment. . d. (Example/look below #1, 2 & 3: Out of 125 boxes, only 93 got on Airline 10 29 2015, other 32 was 2 days later 10 31 2015)
Page 8-8 Split shipment (Cargo Manifest with 32 box) (Also, it has different IT#, as to first split shipment) . a. IF Air shipment Directly with Airline, they will be issuing Air-Way-Bill / AWB (99%) . b. But, IF Export Freight Forwarder has issued Bill-of-Lading, your Import Freight Forwarder will be issuing Airline Air-Way-Bill / AWB & Arrival Notice. . c. Split ship is charge double, also clearing time will take triple or quadruple of the time normal shipment. . d. (Example/look below #1, 2 & 3: Out of 125 boxes, only 93 got on Airline 10 29 2015, other 32 was 2 days later 10 31 2015)