NVO house bills to be included in China advanced manifest rules - JOC Staff | Dec 12, 2014 7:12AM EST - JOC NVOCCs and forwarders will be required to submit house bills of lading to China customs when the country’s advanced manifest system is implemented in March. China customs “intends to include house bill submission rules in these regulations,” Maersk Line said in an advisory issued yesterday. Customs officials have recently consulted the shipping community about the house bill transmission practice used today in the industry.” It was assumed that carrier master bills of lading would be required to be submitted 24 hours prior to a China-bound ship leaving its last foreign port of call as a security screening, but it was unclear whether house bills would be included as well. Without receiving the house bills, a customs authority like in China would only have limited visibility to details about incoming containers. Without a house bill requirement all customs authorities see is a container shipped from, say Kuehne+Nagel, Panalpina, Schenker or Expeditors, or any other forwarder with no visibility to those companies customers and potential associated risks. The requirement for house bills to be included will impose an additional regulatory burden on thousands of forwarders that ship goods into China on behalf of customers, and could affect underlying cargo if forwarders are seeing as being out of compliance. Details of the process by which manifests will have to be submitted, including deadlines and whether there will be an initial non-enforcement period, will be worked out in coming months. “We will pursue further discussions with China customs to receive more details on these rules in the coming weeks,” Maersk said. A house bill of lading is issued by a forwarder or NVO, while a master bill of lading is issued by a carrier. A further explanation is here. In October China issued ten data elements, including the shipper and consignee’s name and address and the notify party, that will be required to be submitted with manifests prior to a vessel’s departure from any foreign port en route to China. The China rule is a version of the U.S. 24-hour rule, one of the first security requirements on containerized shipping to follow from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Japan implemented its own advanced manifest rule earlier this year.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 05:39:51 +0000
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