Effective	02APR2017
Filed	02APR2017
Filing Codes	I

1. Should any Customs Service or other governmental authority order or
   require cargo to be discharged or unloaded from container for
   inspection or examination, or should any Customs Service or other
   governmental authority impound, seize or detain cargo or a loaded
   container for any reason, all charges and expenses, including any
   applicable unloading, reloading, storage, demurrage, detention or
   container per diem charges, will be for the account of the cargo.
   Moreover, Carrier will NOT assume or accept any risk or liability for
   the actions or omissions of such Customs Services, governmental
   authorities or their agents.  Further all expenses paid by or billed
   through the carrier for these inspections shall be charged to the
   cargo, including the transporting of the container from CY to CFS if
   required, stripping and reloading the cargo from and to the
   container, and returning the container from CFS to CY if required.
  
2. The carrier reserves the right to open, inspect, and to have a Sworn
   Measurer verify the contents of a container with respect to
   description, weight and/or measurement, so indicated on the B/L, and
   reseal it with carrier's seal.
    
 a. A shipper of any shipment whose cargo upon inspection is
    found by the Sworn Measurer not to have been correctly
    described, weighed and/or measured shall be rebilled for
    any Freight due, based upon the Sworn Measurer's
    Certificate.  If the shipper fails to pay the additional
    freight due within thirty (30) days after receipt of the
    notice of such rebilling issued by the carrier, he will
    be required at his expense to submit to the carrier a
    Sworn Measurer's Certificate covering each and every
    shipment which he makes from that date on, until he has
    paid the additional freight due.
    
 b. If the additional freight due exceeds five (5%) percent
    of the correct freight based upon the Sworn Measurer's
    Certificate, the shipper, in addition to the requirements
    of Paragraph a. of this Rule, will be required at his
    expense to submit to the carrier a Sworn Measurer's
    Certificate covering each and every shipment which he
    makes during the six (6) month period following receipt
    of the notice of such discrepancy issued by the carrier.
    
 c. If subsequent to a shipment on which the shipper received
    the notice of discrepancy specified in Paragraph b. of
    this Rule that shipper makes a further shipment or shipments
    which upon inspection are found by the Sworn Measurer to
    involve discrepancies exceeding five (5%) percent of the
    correct freight, such shipper shall be subject to the
    requirements of Paragraph b. of the Rule on the basis of
    an additional six (6) month period for each such shipment,
    such additional six (6) month periods to run consecutively.
    
 d. For the purpose of this Rule the term "Sworn Measurer"
    shall extend only to those sworn measurers which have
    been duly appointed as such by this carrier.(See Rule 28
    under Definition of Technical Terms)
    
 e. The carrier shall not release the originals or copies of
    any Bills of Lading to any shipper or his agents until
    the Sworn Measurer's Certificates required under Paragraphs
    a, b, and c. of this Rule have been received by the Carrier
    from the shipper or his agents.    

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