Coastal goods clearance requires delivery of shipping bills and proper officer satisfaction before unloading at destination. The master of a vessel carrying coastal goods must keep on board the bills relating to those goods and, on arrival at a customs or coastal port, deliver to the proper officer the bills for the goods to be unloaded there. Clearance at the destination port is allowed only when the proper officer is satisfied that the goods are entered in a bill of coastal goods delivered under this provision.
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Coastal goods clearance requires delivery of shipping bills and proper officer satisfaction before unloading at destination.
The master of a vessel carrying coastal goods must keep on board the bills relating to those goods and, on arrival at a customs or coastal port, deliver to the proper officer the bills for the goods to be unloaded there. Clearance at the destination port is allowed only when the proper officer is satisfied that the goods are entered in a bill of coastal goods delivered under this provision.
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