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        "Shipper’s Declaration for Dangerous Goods",
        "shipping papers",
        "hazmat shipping paper"
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      "definition": "The shipper’s signed document listing each dangerous item in a consignment — UN number, proper shipping name such as ‘Lithium ion batteries packed with equipment’, class, packing instruction and quantity — and certifying that it is classified, packed, marked and labelled correctly. Fully regulated battery shipments need one; Section II shipments do not.",
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        "class-9-dangerous-goods",
        "iata-dgr",
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        "cfr-49"
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      "id": "topic:topic-standards-vehicle",
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      "label": "Vehicle and transport standards",
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        "id": "topic-standards-vehicle",
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        "lede": "The regulations and standards a vehicle battery must meet to be approved, and the rules for shipping batteries by road, sea and air.",
        "context": "Check issuing organization, edition, scope and market.",
        "example": "Shipping tests and vehicle battery approval tests address different uses; passing one does not automatically satisfy another.",
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      "label": "UN numbers for batteries",
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          "proper shipping name"
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        "definition": "The four-digit numbers that identify a battery consignment worldwide: UN 3480 for lithium-ion batteries, UN 3481 for lithium-ion packed with or contained in equipment, UN 3090 and 3091 for the same in lithium metal, UN 3551 and 3552 for sodium-ion, and UN 3536 for batteries installed in a cargo transport unit. Since 2025 battery-powered vehicles have UN 3556–3558.",
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      "label": "Class 9 dangerous goods",
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          "Class 9",
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          "Class 9A label",
          "lithium battery hazard label"
        ],
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        "definition": "The miscellaneous hazard class of the UN Model Regulations, where lithium and sodium-ion batteries sit; wet lead–acid and nickel batteries with corrosive electrolyte are Class 8 instead. Fully regulated battery consignments carry the Class 9A label — seven vertical stripes above a burning-battery symbol — alongside the separate lithium battery mark where that applies.",
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        "definition": "The airline industry’s manual for shipping dangerous goods by air, built on the ICAO Technical Instructions and reissued every year. Lithium batteries fall under packing instructions 965–967 for lithium-ion — alone, packed with or inside equipment — and 968–970 for lithium metal. Lithium-ion batteries shipped alone must be at no more than 30 % state of charge; from 2026 so must those packed with equipment above 2.7 Wh.",
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      "id": "term:dangerous-goods-training",
      "type": "Term",
      "label": "Dangerous goods training",
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        "id": "dangerous-goods-training",
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          "hazmat training",
          "DG training",
          "49 CFR 172.704"
        ],
        "section": "topic-standards-vehicle",
        "definition": "The certified training that anyone who classifies, packs, marks or documents dangerous goods must hold for the modes they ship by. Air rules under the ICAO Technical Instructions and IATA require recurrent training within 24 months; US 49 CFR requires it at least every three years. Shipping lithium batteries under Section IB, or fully regulated, needs it.",
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      "label": "49 CFR",
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        "definition": "Title 49 of the US Code of Federal Regulations, whose Hazardous Materials Regulations, issued by PHMSA, govern shipping batteries within and from the United States. Section 173.185 covers lithium cells and batteries: every design must pass UN 38.3, small cells and batteries get lighter rules, and damaged or recalled ones may travel only by road, rail or vessel.",
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          "Section II",
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        "section": "topic-standards-vehicle",
        "definition": "The tiers within the air packing instructions for lithium batteries. Section IA is fully regulated; Section IB covers small batteries — cells up to 20 Wh and batteries up to 100 Wh, or 1 g and 2 g of lithium metal — shipped alone; Section II relaxes the rules for such batteries packed with or inside equipment. Section II for batteries shipped alone was withdrawn in 2022.",
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