---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 47.404"
title: "48"
number: "47.404"
heading: "Air freight forwarders."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/47.404"
---

# §47.404. Air freight forwarders.

- (a) Agencies may use air freight forwarders that are engaged in international air transportation ([49 U.S.C. 1301(24)(c)](/usc/49/1301.md?p=24-c)) for U.S. Government-financed movements of property. The rule on disallowance of expenditures in 47.403-3(a) applies also to the air carriers used by these international air freight forwarders.
- (b) Agency personnel shall inform international air freight forwarders that to facilitate prompt payments of their bills, they shall submit with their bills (1) a copy of the airway bill or manifest showing the air carriers used and (2) justification for the use of foreign-flag air carriers similar to the one shown in the clause at 52.247-63, Preference for U.S.-Flag Air Carriers.

## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 42424, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 62 FR 237, Jan. 2, 1997]

### Authority

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 42424, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 42424, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 62 FR 237, Jan. 2, 1997]