The recent consignments were held and inspected by U.S. Customs due to contaminated seeds found onto the pallets, which finally affected the delay of the shipment and incurred huge expenditure.
The additional costs consist of the cleaning fee (vacuum fee), disposal fee, reinspection overtime fee, trucking fee, demurrage fee, etc. The extra cost is usually charged in several thousands of US dollar, subject to actual cost with the receipt slip.
In order to avoid the delay of your consignment and extra cost, please kindly get rid of the contaminated seeds and others prior to arrange loading the goods onto container otherwise once your consignment would be held by U.S. customs, the additional costs would incur without photo taken as an evidence since photos of cargo are not allowed to be taken at the cleaning facility. There is no clear explanation once your consignment is held by the customs, only ‘Emergency Action Notification’ issued by CBP, please kindly be informed.