U.S. Federal Maritime Commission ( "FMC") has always prohibited on the main routes punish acts as its own focus. Already been punished companies in the United States and abroad (including China), shipping companies, NVOCC and freight forwarder within the United States and import and export companies. The amount of fines varies from tens of thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars, as many as hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars. In order to regulate the U.S. airline's business practices to avoid improper operation suffered economic losses are likely in light of the specific operational problems in the United States, "Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998" (hereinafter referred to as "" Reform Act "") No. 10 Article related to violations of the contents of a brief introduction.





1, the false name of conduct to prevent goods


"Reform Act" Article 10 (a) (1) provides that: No person shall knowingly and intentionally, directly or indirectly, through false billing, false classification, false weights, false report weight, size fake the way or use of any other improper or unfair means or methods to obtain or attempt to obtain than the published tariffs or service contracts of the low rates or fees to delivery of goods.


Meanwhile, the "Reform Act" Article 10 (b) (1) subsection also provides that: Any common carrier shall either alone or jointly with any other person, directly or indirectly, allow any person by false billing, false classification, false weight, fake sizes, or the use of any other improper or unfair means or methods to obtain than the carrier's published tariff or service contract of the low rates or fees for delivery of goods.


In recent years, FMC has been in the main routes, especially in the Pacific route on the false cargo name (ie misdescription, commonly known as the false name or counterfeit goods name goods at this translated into giving false name) punish acts as part of its focus on one. In this article mainly refers to the name of false goods of some non-vessel carrier, in order to obtain than the tariff of the low-tariff or service contract, knowingly and deliberately high-value goods, changed the name of low-value cargo cargo cargo name, shipping companies conduct further checked. According to officials of the Executive Board FMC estimation, non-vessel carrier cargo through the false name, and each box of goods less the amount of freight shipping companies to pay up to nearly 700 U.S. dollars. So far, a lot of non-vessel carrier FMC therefore be punished, the maximum fine amounted to a two million U.S. dollars; also have several shipping companies have been convicted of making a false statement to allow non-vessel carrier cargo were to be sentenced to dozens of 10000 waterlogging �� dom? Sui S yarn silk cedar �� �� Catalpa ��-shaped tablets �� men stumble Qiu �� call dirty Cave �� �� Mirror Moon pharyngeal brain enough to stick mao �� cape Jia Lu �� �� gangrene flea Shuo ��? FMC punishment.