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Usage of Digital Signature Certificate in Remote EDI filing (RES) of Customs Documents - reg.
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....entive) All Chief Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise All Commissioners of Customs / Customs (Preventive) All Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise Sir / Madam, Subject: Usage of Digital Signature Certificate in Remote EDI filing (RES) of Customs Documents - reg. The Government has prioritized trade facilitation and creating an environment for ease of doing business. In this di....
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....es a solution. The facility of digitally signing the documents that are filed electronically would provide the necessary assurance regarding the integrity and non-repudiation of these documents. This shall also enhance the acceptability of such documents by other agencies. 3 Accordingly, the Board has decided that with effect from 01.04.2015 importers, exporters, customs brokers, shipping lines, ....
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....ired to mandatorily file Bills of Entry with digital signature w.e.f. 01.05.2015. They would obtain the Digital Signature Certificate, as indicated in the following paragraph. 5 To operationalize the facility to use Digital Signature Certificate for filing the aforementioned Customs process documents, the following process would be followed: (i) A web-based Common Signer utility is provided free....
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....) On receiving the digitally signed documents the ICEGATE server side verifier shall verify the user's credentials, validity of certificate, Certifying Authorities credentials, Public Key, Certificate Revocation List (CRL) status and the result of authentication and integrate the data into ICES database. The data so integrated will also have a flag to indicate that the submitted document was digit....