Improving Ease of Doing Business Issuance of Electronic Delivery Orders

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....ef Commissioner of Customs / Customs (Preventive) All Chief Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise All Commissioners of Customs All Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise Sir / Madam, Subject: Improving Ease of Doing Business Issuance of Electronic Delivery Orders -regarding As part of Government's initiatives for improving “Ease of Doing Business”, severa....

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.... (or D.O. charges). Once these charges are collected, the latter will in turn send to the Custodian the Delivery Order while also advising the importer or the Customs Broker of the issuance of the Delivery Order. 3. Traditionally, Airline and Shipping Lines have allowed the pick-up of import cargo by conveying a paper-based Delivery Order in a format acceptable to the Custodian. The importer or....

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....he capacity to generate electronic Delivery Order in the required format. 5. Apart from the above prerequisites, it will facilitate trade if Shipping Lines, Airlines and Consol Agents can adopt a system of electronic invoicing of all charges along with the facility to conclude the payment process using e-Payment facilities. It is only then that the importer or his Customs Broker can avoid the m....

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....elivery Order, the concerned Shipping Line/ Airline or Consol Agent may issue manual Delivery Order, as a purely temporary measure, in order to avoid any difficulty or delay in clearance of imported goods. 8. It is expected that elimination of hard-copy Delivery Order and implementation of the proposed online system of Delivery Order would enable Shipping Lines, Airlines and Consol Agents to is....