[Procedure name]  Permit of Hozei Work in a Place Other Than the Integrated Customs Area
(Procedure for storage of goods in customs areas)
[ Summary]
- Procedure required when a person intends to carry out foreign goods in an integrated customs area into a place for hozei work other than the integrated customs area
[ Bases for procedures]
- Article 62-15 (application of Article 61 Paragraph 1) of the Customs Law
[ Subjects to procedure]
- A person who has the permit of an integrated customs area and a goods manager who intends to obtain a permit of hozei work in a place other than the integrated customs area
[ Time of submission]
- Submit your application before carrying out foreign goods stored in an integrated customs area into a place for hozei work other than the integrated customs area.
[ Method of submission]
- Prepare an application and submit it to a hozei section official of the customs office stated below.
[ Fee]
- No fee is required for application.
[ Documents to be attached and number of copies]
- No documents to be attached required.
[ Application form and description]
 (The following forms may be printed for use in A4-sized (portrait) sheets of paper.)
- Application for (Batch, Individual) Permit of Hozei Work in other than Customs Manufacturing Warehouse (Integrated Customs Area) (Customs Form C No. 3290) : Two copies
[ Submitted to]
- Submit your notification to a hozei section official of the customs office having jurisdiction over the area where the said integrated customs area is located.
[ Reception time]
- Office hours of customs (8:30 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. except on holidays for the administrative agencies)
Contact the customs beforehand if you intend to submit your application outside the office hours of customs.
[ Consultation service]
- For information, ask a customs counselor or the customs office that processes your application.
[S ubmission standard]
1.

That hozei work in a place other than the integrated customs area must meet one of the following cases:

(1)  Case where raw materials of foreign goods in an integrated customs area are used for manufacturing or processing and their products need to undergo subsequent processing or manufacturing (including packaging) outside the integrated customs area because the site lacks for the facility or capacity needed
(2)  Case where hozei work is done as the first hozei work in a place other than the integrated customs area and the second hozei work and onward are scheduled to take place in the original integrated customs area
(3)  Case where hozei work in a place other than an integrated customs area is subsequent part of the hozei work in the integrated customs area and the hozei work accounts for 30% or less of the quantity of products manufactured in the integrated customs area and the hozei work outside the integrated customs area must be admitted as inevitable.
(4)  Case where it is truly inevitable to perform hozei work in a place other than the integrated customs area to process all the raw materials of foreign goods stored in the integrated customs area
2. Case where, in principle, a plant for hozei work does not belong to the same corporation that owns an integrated customs area, where the corporation is admitted as too small and difficult or inappropriate to use the place for an integrated customs area, or where hozei work in the plant is admitted as unavoidable due to an economic or other causes; or case where a plant that performs hozei work belongs to the same corporation that owns an integrated customs area, where the hozei work in the plant accounts for a small portion (30% or less) of the production volume, where using the plant for an integrated customs area is admitted as not necessarily appropriate.
3. Case where the yield of hozei work in a plant other than the integrated customs area is known and therefore knowing the exact quantity of products manufactured in the plant must be possible.
4.

Case where there must be one of the following relations on goods between the integrated customs area and the plant that performs hozei work outside the integrated customs area.

(1)  That the products produced by hozei work in a plant other than the integrated customs area must be returned to the original integrated customs area and that it can be confirmed that these products are the results of the goods once carried out of the original integrated customs area
(2)  That, like a plant other than the original integrated customs area that performs hozei work belongs to a subcontractor of the integrated customs area, the ownership of goods belongs to a person who has the permit of an integrated customs area, where the subsequent processing, manufacturing, marketing etc. are controlled and supervised by the person who has the permit of the integrated customs area, therefore, actual control of the goods is performed by the holder of the integrated customs area permit during the processing course where the ownership of the goods may be transferred
[ Standard processing time]
[ Administrative appeal]
- Any person may file a protest with the Director-General of Customs within two months from the day following the date of acknowledgement of a disposition related to a customs declaration in case he or she is not satisfied with that disposition.
[ Remarks]