Simplification of Customs procedures for shipping – regarding

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....nd Central Excise The Commissioner of Customs/Customs (Preventive) The Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise Sir/ Madam Subject: Simplification of Customs procedures for shipping - regarding The avoidable delays on account of non-uniform Customs procedures adopted at some ports/Customs stations not only increase transaction cost and time of clearance but also prove to be major constrain....

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....f this document leads to unnecessary escalation of compliance cost. Therefore, taking into account the requirement of Customs as well the fact that an electronic version of IGM is already available, Board has decided that henceforth the number of hard copes of IGM required to be submitted by shipping lines / steamer agents at a Customs House shall be restricted to 2 (two) only. (ii) The port clea....

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....onically. However, there may be situations warranting hard copy of the document such as when amendments have to be made. Recognizing the need for reducing number of copies of SMTP, Board has decided that only 1 (one) copy of SMTP would be sufficient and Customs at ICD should not insist on more number of hard copies of SMTP. (iv) Currently, separate permissions are required whenever the mode of tr....