Regulations Governing The Implementation Of Automated Cargo Clearance Procedures Article 14

For cargoes eligible to be released through C1 in accordance with the preceding Article, Customs shall, after the payment of the duty and charge, make online determinations of release to the Customs broker and the firm operating a warehouse or container yard concerned. A claim for released cargoes made from a Customs broker to the operator of a warehouse or in a container yard shall be supported by a notice of release sent from Customs computer system, together with relevant certificates. All documents pertaining to each Customs declaration shall be kept within the prescribed period governing the Acts by the responsible Customs broker. Where necessary, Customs may request the responsible Customs broker to submit documents pertaining to a Customs declaration. Within three days following the date on which the above-mentioned request is received, the responsible Customs broker shall submit all the documents to CustomsWhere cargoes covered by a Customs declaration have been specified for going through C2, the responsible Customs broker shall submit a hard copy of the declaration and relevant documents for further review by the end of office hours of the day after the date of receiving the online determinations from Customs. However, the documents eligible to be submitted in soft copy by Customs announcement could be submitted by way of online declarations instead of filing paper documentation.Where cargoes covered by a Customs declaration have been specified for going through C3, the responsible Customs broker the responsible Customs broker shall submit a hard copy of the declaration and relevant documents for carrying out physical examination by the end of office hours of the day after the date of receiving the online determinations from Customs. To facilitate the examination, Customs may also notice the firm operating a warehouse or container yard at which the cargoes are placed. However, the documents eligible to be submitted in soft copy by Customs announcement could be submitted by way of online declarations instead of filing paper documentation.The provisions relating to operations of the payment of duty and charge, as well as the release and claim for cargoes as provided for in paragraph 1 shall also apply to cargoes referred to in the preceding two paragraphs. Nevertheless, where documents pertaining to cargoes specified for further review have been sent to Customs by way of online declarations, and they are then identified as accurate and thus written off by Customs computer, subsequent submission of their written forms may be exempted.