[Procedure name] Permit for Traffic between Land and a Vessel or Aircraft Coming and/or Going Between Japan and Any foreign Country for Delivering and/or Receiving Goods
(Procedures for vessels and aircraft)
[ Summary]
- Procedures for traffic between land and a vessel or aircraft coming and/or going between Japan and any foreign country for delivering and/or receiving goods (hereafter referred to as a "vessel coming and/or going between Japan and any foreign country, etc.") and land for exchange of goods
[ Bases for procedures]
- Article 24 Paragraph 2 of the Customs Law
- Article 22-2 Paragraph 1 of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of the Customs Law
[ Subjects to procedure]
- A person who intends to traffic between land and a vessel or aircraft coming and/or going between Japan and any foreign country for delivering and/or receiving goods
[ Time of submission]
- Submit an application before starting to traffic between land and a vessel or aircraft coming and/or going between Japan and any foreign country for delivering and/or receiving goods.
[ Method of submission]
- Prepare the following application and submit it to the guard section of the customs office having jurisdiction over the area where the applicant intends to traffic between land and a vessel or aircraft coming and/or going between Japan and any foreign country for delivering and/or receiving goods.
[ Fee]
- There is no fee.
[ Documents to be attached and number of copies]
- There are none in particular.
[ Submitted to]
- Submit an application to the guard section of the customs office having jurisdiction over the area where the applicant intends to traffic between land and a vessel or aircraft coming and/or going between Japan and any foreign country for delivering and/or receiving goods.
[ Reception time]
- Office hours of customs (8:30 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. excluding holidays of the administrative agencies).
Contact beforehand the guard section of the customs office having jurisdiction over the area where the applicant intends to traffic between land and a vessel or aircraft coming and/or going between Japan and any foreign country for delivering and/or receiving goods when intending to submit an application outside the office hours of customs.
[ Consultation service]
- For information, contact a customs counselor or the guard section of the customs office that processes your submitted documents.
[ Submission standard]
- That it is certain that a vessel coming and/or going between Japan and any foreign country etc. has entered or is going to enter a port or airport; that it is considered necessary to traffic between land and a vessel or aircraft coming and/or going between Japan and any foreign country for delivering and/or receiving goods; and that the person intending to obtain a permit does not fall into one of the following categories of persons:
a.  An applicant who was subject to a punishment or a notified disposition for violation of the Customs Law and for whom two years have not elapsed from the date of completion of serving the punishment, the date granted a suspension of the punishment, or the date of completion of the notified disposition.
b.  An applicant who was subject to imprisonment without labor or heavier punishment for the violation of provisions of Chapter 14 (penalty concerning prepared opium) of Title 2 of the Criminal Law, Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law, Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Law, Opium Law, Cannabis Control Law, Stimulants Control Law, Firearm and Sword Possession Control Law, and/or other laws, and for who two years have not elapsed from the date of completion of serving the punishment or the date granted a suspension of the punishment.
c.  An applicant who falls into the above mentioned category of a and/or b or an agent, employer, or employee of a corporation that employs such a person.
[ Standard processing time]
[ Administrative appeal]
- Any person may file a protest with the Director-General of Customs within two months from the following the date of acknowledgement of a disposition related to the above mentioned application in case he or she is not satisfied with that disposition.
[ Remarks]