---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 297.5"
title: "14"
number: "297.5"
heading: "Foreign air freight forwarder as agent."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/297.5"
---

# §297.5. Foreign air freight forwarder as agent.


A foreign air freight forwarder may act as agent of a shipper, or of a direct air carrier that has authorized such agency, if it expressly reserves the option to do so when the shipment is accepted. A foreign air freight forwarder shall not act as the agent of any direct air carrier with respect to shipments accepted for forwarding.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. Chapters 401, 417.

### Source

Source: ER-1159, 44 FR 69635, Dec. 4, 1979, unless otherwise noted.