Cargo transportation broker registered with the head of a customs office under the current Act is a party that brokers international logistics of export and import cargoes, and it is a key principal in the logistics supply chain that provides all logistics services, such as transportation, unloading, storage, and customs clearance from which the cargo of the shipper is taken over until it is delivered to the consignee. 

However, since the cargo transportation brokers continue to participate in smuggling activities, using their control over logistics in areas such as creating cargo manifests, which are the key information in the export and import logistics and assigning bonded warehouses, effective management is required within the boundaries of the customs system to prevent such illegal and unfair acts. 

Meanwhile, there is a concern over delayed submission due to increased burden on shipping companies and airlines that are required to present cargo manifests as a result of drastic increase in exports owing to the activation of international e-commerce, it is required to provide active support for exports by means such as the expansion of presenters for cargo manifests set to departure to ensure that express cargo is loaded and shipped overseas in a timely manner by vessels and aircraft. 

Accordingly, the Amendment aims to provide benefits under the customs administration by preventing illegal and unfair acts, minimizing logistics delays, and providing full support for export, employing the means such as imposing a duty to maintain data on the cargo transportation brokers by adding the cargo manifest presenters to the cargo manifest holders, obligating the cargo transportation brokers to submit the personal information of those who engage in the said tasks, ensuring that administrative measures are enforceable against those who fail to perform the measurement and evaluation of the degree of compliance with the safety management standards, punishing bonded area operators who file false reports on the articles not actually brought in at the request of the cargo transportation brokers, etc., while expanding the qualifications for the submission of cargo manifests set to departure to cover the cargo transportation brokers that transport express cargo (Articles 12, 136, 222, 224, and 277). 

Storage period for declaration documents (Article 12), registration and report of bonded transportation business entities, etc. (Article 222), and administrative sanctions against cargo transportation brokers, etc. (Article 224)