Automatic Manifest Filing - definition of "carrier" (U.S.) - Customs Forum

**admin** · 09-16-2011, 06:17 AM

The regulations require that the manifest information of the transferring
incoming "carrier". But as with many other regulations, the term "carrier"
defined not by the CBP specificity. CBP has only said that the opinion
Carrier as "the unit that controls the transmission." We have the CBP in touch
In this regard, and at the time of this writing, the agency will not clarify this
Defined in every detail. It is CBP's current position that the interested
Parties have to work, the meaning of the term among themselves as
and / or on your own. At first glance this definition seems to show that CBP is
View of the head owner, charterer or operator of the ship for the AMS
Submissions. However, if the head of the owner, charterer or operator of the
Ship is the instance that is the question of lading, it is obvious that none of these
People who have the necessary information for submitting required under the new
Regulations. The CBP regulations do reference, in several cases, the term
"Operator." Such a link would seem to indicate that the company
considered under the CBP regulations is the equivalent of the "ocean common
Carrier "under the Federal Maritime Commission regulations. 12 In addition, the
CBP regulations and interpretative documents refer to the carrier as
party "with operational control of the ship."
Accordingly, our opinion is that CBP is accepting submissions from the AMS unit, which
Threads of the ocean bill of lading on the ship and operates the ship,
or, in the case of slot sharing agreements, the operator of the ship, who
under the operating agreement for the consolidation of the necessary
Information and the issuance of the cargo manifest for the ship's theme. This view is
both with CBP interpretation of the support as the company that
controls the transport and the practical necessity of the issuer of the invoice
of lading that the company with the necessary information. (Although CBP has
not issued any further interpretations on this subject since the publication

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