Regulations Governing the Establishment and Management of Customs Brokers Article 24

With the exception of the customs clearance agent who is required to first acquire a customs broker identification card under Article 17 and Article 19 of these Regulations, the customs broker should ensure that the employees hired to attend to its customs brokerage operations should be duly registered with the customs authorities for customs broker identification card issuance. Customs authorities may investigate criminal records of the customs clearance agent or other employees when necessary ; thereafter, upon the resignation of said employee, the customs broker is required to report the matter to the customs authorities in writing or online within 1 working day commencing from the date following the employee’s resignation and return the employee's identi fication card for invalidation within 7 days; C ustoms shall directly announce the cancellation of the identification card in case of failure to return for invalidation before the given period.Customs may investigate criminal records of special customs officers or employees when necessary.The procedures for the aforementioned identification card application and return for invalidation may be submitted to the customs brokers association, which shall then forward such case to the customs authorities for processing. With the exception of the employees of duty licensed customs clearance agent for whom Article 18 of these Regulations applies to, the custom broker employee’s application for his/her identification card should be denied under one of the following circumstances; where the identification card is issued, Customs shall order the customs broker to return his/her customs broker identification card for invalidation within 3 days; C ustoms shall directly announce the cancellation of the identification card in case of fail ure to return for invalidation before the given period.1. The presence of one of the circumstances provided in Subparagraph 9, Paragraph 1 of Article 8;2. In matters related to customs functions, the employee uses means of violence, threats, intimidation, public insult, or other illegal means and thereby endangers the personal and property safety of customs personnel, and the customs authorities have duty es tablished fact of such violation and the five year period has not elapsed.The customs broker employee, whose identification card has been issued by the customs authorities in the presence of one of the circumstances provided in Subparagraph 9, Paragraph 1 of Article 8 with the exception of being convicted of a crime under Punishment of Smuggling Act before the implementation of the amended provision of preceding paragraph , s ubparagraph 1 effective on May 26 th , 2023, shall be subject to the provision of the subparagraph after this amendment has been implemented for six months.