To submit an import or export notification before shipment, customers sometimes may not have the full details and quantity of the goods until the goods have actually been shipped.

If you encounter this situation, you can fill in the required information to the best of your knowledge and submit the notification before shipment as required by Trade & Industry Department (“TID”). On a need basis, you can submit amendments after shipment as appropriate. However it is worth to note some requirements laid down by TID on amendment.

• no extra line items can be added while unwanted ones can be deleted
• nature and description of goods should not be altered to a large extent
• quantity of goods could only be adjusted upwards by 10%

As such, in preparing your pre-shipment notification, you are advised to take note of these points to cater for submission of subsequent amendments if needed.

Please note that you can make as many amendments as you need before 23:00 of the shipment date and all these amendments are NOT considered as post-shipment amendments and therefore will not be subject to the "requirements" as stated above.

Particularly, if your shipment is by road, you can skip the vehicle number in the notification if it is unknown to you.

Should you have any enquiry, please call Tradelink Customer Service Hotline at 2917 8878.