Chapter III Governance
Article 12
An air freight forwarder shall display its certificate and business registration at the site of business.
Article 13
To meet the needs of air freight development, insure flight safety for public interest, CAA may dispatch personnel to inspect the various equipment and operations of an air freight forwarder, who must not refuse, evade or obstruct such inspections. If there is any deficiency, the air freight forwarder shall be given a certain period of time to improve.
Any air freight forwarder fails to improve within time limit, or refuses, avoids or hinders inspections will be suspended from operation by CAA, subject to MOTC’s approval. In more serious cases, permit shall be nullified.
CAA is obligated to sending its agents for the inspection of various equipment and operations of air freight forwarders. It may also commission, or work jointly with, a related association in conducting such inspection.
Article 15
Sub-air waybill made out by an air freight forwarder shall carry in print the company name and its address in Chinese or English, and the registered number of air freight forwarder permit. These bills shall be numbered consecutively.
Article 16
Contents in diverse original parts must be in complete unison. There shall be no occurrence of alteration, falsification or repetition of using the same serial number.
Each primary air waybill shall record one by one the serial numbers of sub-air waybills it covers.
Article 17
An air freight forwarder shall print out tags for sub-air waybills indicating company title, place of departure, destination, total pieces of freight and sub-air waybill serial numbers.
Article 18
Air freight forwarder shall not let others borrow sub-air waybills or tags.
Article 19
Air freight forwarder shall keep for a period of two years all the sub-air waybills it has made out and all original data related to accounting matters.
Article 21
Air freight forwarder shall send personnel to receive relevant training by CAA or by a related association commissioned by CAA.
Article 22
The express goods handled by an air freight forwarder shall:
1. comply with the provisions of “Regulations governing import and export customs clearance procedures for express consignments” promulgated by the Ministry of Finance.
2. be glued with bar codes sufficient to identity goods.
Article 24
International trade and commercial documents delivered by air freight forwarder shall be limited to those listed in the forms prescribed under this Regulation.