(a) General. Unless otherwise exempted or excepted by § 520.13, all common carriers and conferences must keep open for public inspection in automated tariff systems tariffs showing all rates, charges, classifications, rules, and practices between all points or ports on their own routes and on any through transportation route that has been established.

(b) Conferences. Conferences must publish in their automated tariff systems rates offered pursuant to independent action by their members and may publish any open rates offered by their members. Alternatively, open rates may be published in individual tariffs of conference members.

(c) Publishers. Common carriers or conferences can use publishers to meet their publication requirements under this part.

(d) Notification. (1) Prior to the commencement of common carrier service pursuant to a published tariff, each common carrier and conference must electronically submit to BTA Form FMC-1 via the Commission's website www.fmc.gov.

(2) The common carrier and conference must include on Form FMC-1 its organization name, organization number, home office address, name and email address and telephone number of the firm's representative, the location of its tariffs, and the publisher, if any, used to maintain its tariffs.

(3) Any changes to the above information must be transmitted to BTA within 30 calendar days.

(4) The Commission will provide a unique organization number to new entities operating as common carriers or conferences in the U.S. foreign commerce.

(e) Location of tariffs. The Commission will publish on its website, www.fmc.gov, a list of the locations of all common carrier and conference tariffs.

(f) NVOCC failure to maintain tariff. Failure to maintain a tariff will result in revocation of an NVOCC's license or suspension of a foreign-based unlicensed NVOCC's registration.