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July 2009
Action: Failure to use legally published Export Rates.
Generally speaking, export rates are published to apply to the various ports of exportation and at lower relative rates than the same product moving between the same two points on a domestic move. The precise purpose for this distinction is not well known except an effort by the carriers to promote international commerce, or the ports negotiating a distinct treatment to promote commerce or trade that would widen the need for transportation services. But the distinctions do exist in some categories of products and in some geographical areas of the United States. Just be sure that if this distinction results
in a lower level of transportation charges on your product, that you avail yourself of these favorable differences in costs. Or alternately if you are on a contract-exclusive arrangement with rail or motor carriers, that the negotiations include some consideration for the encouragement of these type of normally large volume moves through rate considerations, or the absorption of some of the port accessorial charges. “Team Group C” has the execution responsibility.
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