TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
Procedure for granting of Entry Inward, Reg.
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....es, Port Terminal Operators and all other stakeholders is invited to Section 30 (delivery of Import Manifest) and Section 31 (Imported goods not to be unloaded from vessel until entry inwards granted) of the Customs Act, 1962. For the sake of reference, Section 30 & 31 of Customs Act, 1962 are reproduced below: "Section 30. Delivery of import manifest or import report. - (1) The person-in- charg....
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....in-charge or any other person referred to in this sub-section, who caused such delay, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty thousand rupees. Provided that the Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs may, in cases where it is not feasible to deliver import manifest by presenting electronically, allow the same to be delivered in any other manner. (2) The person de....
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..... (3) Nothing in this section shall apply to the unloading of baggage accompanying a passenger or a member of the crew, mail bags, animals, perishable goods and hazardous goods." 2. Thus. on a co-joint reading of sections 30 and 31, it is clear that the vessel can start unloading the goods only after an order/permission/permit led 'Entry Inward' is granted by the Customs following submission by....
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....ry Inward in the System, it has been decided that the Boarding Officer shall grant Entry Inward by signing the Entry Inward application of the concerned vessel and allow commencement of operations of loading/unloading. The Boarding Officer should also give entry inward for the vessel in the ICES with his own SSOID immediately after finishing the boarding of the vessel. If the Section Office is not....