[Procedure name]	Notification of Transporting Duty-Exempted Containers within Japan
	(Procedure based on the convention)

[	Summary]
-	Procedure required when a person intends to use a duty-exempted container with goods in internal traffic by a reasonably direct routine route between the place where the said goods were disembarked and the place where export goods are to be embarked (place to load the container for export when no additional goods are embarked in the container)

[	Bases for procedures]
-	Article 8 Paragraph 3 of the Special Measure Law of the Customs Law on the Enforcement of the Customs Convention on Containers and the TIR Convention (the Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets)
-	Article 10 of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of the Special Measure Law of the Customs Law on the Enforcement of the Customs Convention on Containers and the TIR Convention (the Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets)

[	Subjects to procedure]
-	Person who intends to use duty-exempted containers in internal traffic

[	Time of submission]
-	Submit your notification before using duty-exempted containers in internal traffic

[	Method of submission]
-	Prepare your notification and submit it to the customs office stated below.

[	Fee]
-	There is no fee for notification.

[	Documents to be attached and number of copies]
-	No documents to be attached required.

[	Declaration form and description]
	(The following form may be printed for use in A4-sized (portrait) sheets of paper.)
-	Notification of Using duty-exempted Containers in internal traffic (Customs Form A No. 1090):Two copies (three copies when the customs office through which the duty-exempted container(s) were imported is different from the customs office that processes this notification)

[	Submitted to]
-	Submit your notification to a hozei section official of the customs office having jurisdiction over the place where the container(s) were imported or the place that domestic transportation starts.

[	Reception time]
-	Office hours of customs (8:30 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. except on holidays for the administrative agencies)

[	Consultation service]
-	For information, ask a customs counselor or the customs office that processes your application.

[S	ubmission standard]
1.	Whether the container(s) were imported with goods inside
2.	Whether the container(s) are transported through the routine route between the place where the import goods were disembarked and the place to load export goods (or the place to embark goods for export)
3.	Whether the domestic transportation exceeds one time

[	Standard processing time]

[	Administrative appeal]

[	Remarks]
-	The customs office may ask the notifier to submit a copy of a bill of lading, etc. to confirm whether the said "container(s) were imported with goods."
-	The said container(s) may not be used more than once in internal traffic before being re-exported.