Glossary

Chassis is a piece of trucking equipment used to truck FCL shipments.

A Partner Government Agency (PGA) is a U.S. government agency that works with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to regulate commodities imports.

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are agreements made to set rules to facilitate commerce between select governments and eliminate trade barriers.

Rolled cargo describes shipments that were not loaded onto a vessel or cargo plane because of a variety of issues such as overbooking, lack of capacity or late customs clearance.

A customs entry is a declaration made to a local customs authority by a licensed customs broker for the customs clearance of imports and exports.

Anti-dumping duties are established to protect local industry from foreign manufacturers of goods in certain categories.

A customs tariff is a tax levied on imports and is typically imposed by the government of the importing country.

A preferential duty is a duty with a lower than normal tariff rate levied on imports originating from countries within a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) treaty network.

De minimis fee is the price threshold below which shipments are subject to either reduced or no taxes.

Peak Season Surcharge (PSS) is a short-term extra charge that carriers impose on top of base rates during periods of high demand.

Airline Terminal Fee (ATF) is a cargo handling fee for air cargo processing at the airline terminal bonded warehouse.

A pallet exchange fee is imposed in the case where a trucker does not bring pallets for exchange when picking up palletized freight.

The airline storage fee is incurred when an air freight shipment is not picked up within the allowed free time period.

A per diem fee is charged by the carrier for each additional day that a container remains away from port beyond the allowed “free” days.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is an agency of the Department of Homeland Security that oversees foreign trade and travel into the U.S.