Who files your customs declarations in Japan?
Either way Aplash is appointed as your Attorney for Customs Procedures under Customs Act Article 95, for USD 500 one time, per client, primary Customs office included, covering your imports and your exports. The fee per shipment follows who files, and one shipment is one import or export declaration filed for your goods.
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Appointment of Aplash as your Attorney for Customs Procedures under Customs Act Article 95, so that Japan Customs has a party it can reach in Japan for your import and export declarations.
Available to importers and exporters with no registered legal entity, office or address in Japan, for imports, exports or both at the same fee. Food, drink, additives, food-contact goods and children's toys imported into Japan may need an Importer of Record arrangement beside the appointment, at a further fee.
Other fees and costs
- One Japan Customs office is covered. Adding an office later means a further filing with Japan Customs (a change notification), which takes processing time and filing work, so each additional office is quoted separately.
- Customs duty, Japan Consumption Tax and any partner registered customs specialist fees are settled at cost, outside this order.
- Per-shipment ACP work is charged at USD 300 per shipment where your own licensed customs broker prepares and files the declaration and Aplash holds the appointment, or at USD 1,200 per shipment where Aplash coordinates the licensed-broker workflow. Shipments ordered with the appointment are charged with it; shipments ordered later are charged at the same rates, and 6 or 12 coordinated shipments ordered together take the published volume rate. The work is performed under the service agreement drafted for your matter.
- Goods that need an import or export approval or licence, a quarantine step or conformity work beside the appointment, or export control screening on the item or its end use, are reviewed before any filing. Where further work applies, it is quoted to you in writing and charged only on your written acceptance. Clause 2.11 of the Terms of Sale states the rule, and clause 5 states what is refunded where you decline the quote or the appointment route is not open to you.
The appointment takes effect when Customs records the notification. Timing is set by Customs and is case-specific.
What this covers
- Confirmation from your documents that the appointment route is open to you
- Pre-submission consultation with the Customs office
- Preparation and filing of the Attorney for Customs Procedures notification (Form C-7500), naming your imports, your exports or both
- Aplash recorded as the contact for Customs correspondence on your behalf
- Your company remains the importer or exporter of record named on each import or export declaration
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