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VIFFAS's Standard trading conditions

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I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES:

1. These Standard Trading Conditions here below referred to as TSTC shall be applied to all services provided, handled, performed or rendered by the company acting as Freight Forwarder even in case when the company procures a Bill of Lading or other similar document evidencing a contract of carriage between a person other than the company and the customer or owner .

2. In case when the company is acting as carrier, the provision1s of a document issued by or on behalf of the company bearing a title of or including "Bill of Lading", whether negotiable or not, shall be paramount and in the event of a conflict of conditions, the provisions of such a document shall prevail over those of TSTC to the extend of such conflict.

3. As to the services in respect of or relating to customs clearance, taxes, licenses, consular documents, certificates of origin, inspection, certificates and other similar services or incidental to, the company is to be always considered to act as agents only and never to be considered to act as Principals. 


II. DEFINITIONS:

In these Standard Trading Conditions:

4. "Company" means a Vietnam Freight Forwarders Association's member who undertakes to provide the services.

5. "Conditions" means the entire undertakings, terms, conditions and clauses embodied in TSTC.

6. "Customer's means any person, or any body, or any company, corporation and enterprise, or any organization.

7. "Owner" means the owner of the goods including shippers and consignees and another person who is or may be come interested in the goods and anyone acting on their behalf.

8. "Goods" includes the cargo and any container not supplied by or on behalf of the company, or any part thereof in respect of which the company provides a service.

9. "Dangerous goods" means goods listed in .'lntemational Maritime Dangerous Goods Code" issued, published by IMO.

10. "lnstruction" means a statement of the customer's specific requirements.