hereby constitutes and appoints each of the following persons, A & A Contract Customs Brokers USA Inc, A & A International Freight Forwarding, A & A Warehousing. Its assigns and successors with power to be exercised through its officers, employees and agents specifically authorized to act for the said firm as a true lawful agent and attorney of the grantor named above for and in the name, place and stead of said grantor form this date and in all Customs Districts, and in no other name to make, endorse, sign, declare, or swear to any entry, withdrawal, declaration, certificate, bill of lading, carnet or other document required by law or regulation in connection with the importation, transportation, or exportation of any merchandise shipped or consigned by or to said grantor, to perform any act or condition which may be required by law or regulation in connection with such merchandise; to receive any merchandise deliverable to said grantor. To make endorsements on bill of lading conferring authority to transfer title, make entry or collect drawback, and to make, sign declare, or swear to any statement, supplemental statement, schedule, supplemental schedule, certificate of delivery, certificate of manufacture, certificate of manufacture and delivery, abstract of manufacturing records, declaration off proprietor on drawback entry, declaration of exporter of drawback entry, or any other affidavit or document which may be required by law or regulation for drawback purposes, regardless of whether such bill of lading sworn statement schedule, certificate, abstract, declaration, or other affidavit or document is intended for filing in any customs district:
To sign, seal and deliver for and as the act of said grantor any bond required by law or regulation in connection with the entry or withdrawal of imported merchandise or merchandise exported with or without benefit of drawback, or connection with the entry, clearance, lading, unlading or navigation of any vessel or other means of conveyance owned or operated by said grantor, and any and all bonds which may be voluntarily given and accepted under applicable laws or regulations, consignee’s and owner’s declarations provide for in section 485, Tariff Act of 1930, as amended or affidavits in connection with entry of merchandise: To sign and swear to any document and to perform any act that may be necessary or required by law or regulation in connection with the entering, clearing, lading, unlading, or operation of any vessel or other means of conveyance owned or operated by said grantor: To authorize other Customs Brokers to act as grantor’s agent: to receive, endorse and collect checks issued for Customs duty refunds in grantor’s name drawn on the Treasurer of the United States; if the grantor is a non resident of the United States, to accept service of process on behalf of the grantor. And generally to transact at the customhouses in any district any and all customs business, including making signing and filing of protests under section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930, in which said grantor is or may be concerned of interested and which may properly be transacted or performed by an agent and attorney, giving to said agent and attorney full power and authority to do anything whatever requisite and necessary to be done in the premises as fully as said grantor could do if present and acting, hereby ratifying and confirming all that the said agent and attorney shall lawfully do by virtue of these presents; the foregoing power of attorney to remain in full force and effect until notice of revocation in writing is duly given to and received by District Director of Customs. If the donor of this power of attorney is a partnership, the said power shall in no case have any force or effect after the expiration of 2 years from the date of its execution. If the Grantor is a Limited Liability Company, the signatory certifies that he/she has full authority to execute this power on behalf of the Grantor.
The Grantor herein acknowledges and represents that it, and all its associates, affiliates, parents, subsidiaries or related companies wheresoever situate in Canada, the United States, or the world, have retained and hired A & A Contract Customs Brokers USA Inc. to act as a customs broker and to perform any and all of the services described herein and that all such persons or corporate bodies shall be responsible to pay any and all accounts rendered by A & A Contract Customs Brokers USA Inc. for the performance of such services. Customs powers of attorney for residents (including resident corporations) shall be without power of substitution except for the purpose of executing shipper’s export declarations. However, a power of attorney executed in favor of a licensed customs broker may specify that the power of attorney is granted t the customs broker to act through any of its licensed officers or any employee specifically authorized to act for such customs broker by power of attorney. If you are the importer of record, payment to the broker will not relieve you of liability for Customs charges in the event the charges are not paid by the broker. Therefore, if you pay by check, Customs charges may be paid with separate check payable to the “U.S. Customs Service” which shall be delivered to Customs by the broker. Importers who wish to utilize this procedure must contact our office in advance. In addition the check must be the exact amount, arrive with the shipment, and cannot be drawn on a foreign bank. In witness whereof, I the said