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Launch of Indian Customs EDI System- (ICES 1.5) for Imports and Exports, at Air Cargo Complex (ACC) Nagpur (INNAG4), Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, Nagpur-440005-reg.
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....irport, Nagpur-440005, Maharashtra whereby Nagpur Airport has been declared as "Customs Airport" for loading of export cargo and unloading of imported cargo vide Public Notice No. 34/07/1997-Technical dated 29.05.1997 issued by Additional Commissioner (Tech), Nagpur by virtue of powers vested under Section (7) of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) and Notification No. 16/1997-Customs(NT) dated 16-051997, whereby Nagpur Airport has been declared as "Customs Airport" for loading of export cargo and unloading of imported cargo. The limits of Customs Area vide Notification No. Customs/S-8/4/97 dated 28.10.1997 under Section 8 of the Customs Act, 1962(52 of 1962) for loading of export cargo and unloading of imported cargo has been issued. Appointed Custodian vide Notification No. Customs/S-45/5/97 under 28.10.1997 under Section 45 of the Customs Act, 1962(52 of 1962) issued by this office. IMPORTS 1. Under the EDI-System, the Bill of Entry shall be filed electronically and shall be processed online in an automated computerized environment. Certain declarations and certificates etc. in original wherever required shall continue to be attached with the assessed copy of Bill of Entry ....
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.... Customs broker registration attached as Appendix 1 and format for registration attached as Appendix 2) 1.3 Registration of Shipping lines/Agents, Consol Agents IGM/Consol Manifest shall be filed electronically by the Shipping Lines/Agents and Consol Agents at the Ports of entry and Sub-IGM relating to respective IGM lines under SMTP at the ICD. The Shipping Lines/Agents and Consol Agents, before filing IGM, should register themselves in the ICES at any of the ICES enabled Custom Stations. (Format of registration attached as Appendix 3) 1.4 Exchange Rates of un-notified currencies The ICES maintains exchange rates in respect of currencies the rates of which are notified by the Ministry of Finance on regular basis. However, in respect of currencies which are not covered in the notifications of the Ministry of Finance, the concerned Bank's certificate indicating the exchange rate applicable for the date on which the Bill of Entry is filed should be obtained by the Customs broker/Importer from any Nationalized Bank. Only this exchange rate should be entered in the system in the respective field while making entry of B/E data and should be presented along with assessed copy....
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....te filing of Bill of Entry or Manifest Those who intend to file Bill of Entry or manifest from their office they should register themselves with ICEGATE. For registration at ICEGATE the detailed information may be seen at web-site "http//:www.icegate.gov.in". For filing of Bill of Entry from remote, NIC has provided software which is free of cost and can be downloaded from NIC website. (http://ices.nic.in/ices/aspx) 1.11 Service Centre charges: Facility of data entry of IGM, Bill of Entry etc. is available at service center at Air Cargo Complex, Nagpur on payment basis. The schedule of charges for various types of services payable at the service centre are indicated below which shall be subject to revision from time to time. The schedule of charges for data entry in the Centre shall be as follows:- I -SERVICE CHARGES FOR DIGITISATION OF DOCUMENTS AT SERVICE CENTRE For manual documents getting data entry done at Service Centre (i) Bill of Entry/Shipping Bill having up to five items: Rs.80 (ii) Each Additional Block of five items: Rs.10 (iii) IGM: Rs.80 (iv) EGM: Rs.80 (v) Other documents (such as UAB, Transhipment etc) : ....
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....the Shipping line and given to the service centre operator for submission after corrections, if any. 2.1 Apart from filing of SMTP/Consol Manifest through service centre, the Shipping lines would continue to file a hard copy of the SIGM with the authorized officer of the Customs officer of the Customs at the said ICD. 2.2 Amendment in the IGM/SMTP/Console manifest after submission shall be carried out only after approval from the designated Customs authority ie. DC/AC concerned. Amendment request shall be entered in the system at service centre, on submission in the system it shall appear before the designated officer for approval. If the designated officer is satisfied with the amendment requested, he will approve the same in the system. 2.3 The acceptance of cancellation or otherwise, will be confirmed to the custodian as well as to the Shipping Lines electronically if filed through EDI interface or it is communicated as a "printed checkup cancellation message" from the service center and can also be checked up from the enquiry window of the Service Center. Note:-It may be noted that in case of cancellation of IGM, all the Bills of Entry filed against the IGM will ....
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....t of notification is claimed, against the entry 'Generic Description' in Annexure 'C', List No. and the Serial no. of the List shall be mentioned in addition to the generic description of the item. The Service Centre Operator will feed first the List no. and Serial no., and if there is space left, generic description of the item. (vii) For example, Nebulizers are covered by S. No. 363 of the Table of Notification No. 021/02 (list 37, Sr. No. 19). This entry would be described as:- Generic Description CTH Notfn./Year, Sr. No L37/19, Nebulizers 90189093 021/02, Sr. No. 363 (viii) The Service Centre Operator shall carefully enter the data in the system as is indicated in Annexure 'C'. On completion of entry of data the system shall assign a Job No. and generate a Check List which is draft Bill of Entry. The service centre operator shall print a copy of Check List and hand over the same to the Customs broker/Importer. The Customs broker/Importer shall check the correctness of the data entered in the system. If any error is noticed the error shall be circled in bold ink and correct detail should be written. The corrected check list duly signed by the Customs brok....
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.... shipping lines and their agents shall use the Digital Signature Certificate and the web based Common Signer utility to digitally sign the electronic documents generated by remote EDI package and then subsequently send the digitally signed documents for processing via email/web upload, as is being done currently. (iv) 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 digitally signed. (v) The Customs officers will be able to identify on the system whether a particular electronic document has been filed after signing with Digital Signature Certificate or they can download the Remote EDI filing software from NIC website link which has been provided at ICEGATE website. Software of NIC is free of charge. On successful submission of data from their premises, the ICES will generate a Bill of Entry Number and return message indicating the Bil....
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....y the system to a particular Appraising Group of which the assessable value is the highest. All the Bills of Entry assigned to a particular Appraising Group are put in a queue and are processed on first come first serve basis. In a specific case only the AC/DC of concerned Appraising Group are authorized to change priority, if circumstances so warrant. (iii) Group 7 was created for handling assessment of goods under Export Promotion Schemes requiring import licenses for claiming exemption from duty etc. Bills of Entry in Group 7 require production of duty exemption import license by the importer. Therefore, processing of Bills of Entry will be taken up by the appraising officer only on receipt of required documents. (iv) Movement of Bills of Entry from one officer to another takes place automatically in a pre-determined workflow basis depending on roles and jurisdiction assigned to them. During processing of Bill of Entry the concerned officer may raise Query to the importer for further clarification/information. The Query on approval by the concerned AC/DC shall be transmitted to importer for online reply. Such a Bill of Entry on which query has been raised, is automatically....
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....broker/Importer shall take print of the assessed copy of B/E along with three copies of TR-6 challan. Before presenting the Bill of Entry for examination and delivery of goods, the Customs broker/Importer should deposit duty assessed with the designated bank. 4.3 First Check Appraisement (i) Where the Customs broker/Importer has opted for First check assessment or the Assessing Officer feels it necessary to examine the goods prior to assessment, he shall order first check examination of goods in the system. For seeking first check examination order, the Customs broker/Importer shall exercise the relevant option at data entry stage, the appropriate column of Annexure C format should be flagged 'Y'. The assessing officer shall accordingly give examination order on the system which shall be approved by the Group AC/DC. On approval by AC/DC a first check Bill of Entry copy shall be printed. Customs broker/importer gets a copy of First Check B/E printed with 'Examination Order' at the 'Service Centre' or in his office, as the case may be. In case of the assessing officer AC/DC feels if necessary, then he may select first check assessment in the system. (ii) After the examina....
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.... after the assessment is completed and the print of the assessed Customs copy of the B/E and TR-6 challans are obtained by the Customs broker/Importer, copies of the TR-6 challans shall be presented to the designated bank for payment of duty. The Bank shall verify the particulars in the TR-6 challans from the system and enter the particulars of receipt of amount in the system and return two copies of challan duly stamped and signed, to the Customs broker. The bank will retain one copy. The Challan shall also indicate the interest amount for seven days period after expiry of interest free period. If interest free period of two days has expired, fresh challan with revised amount of interest should be obtained and should be paid accordingly. 5.1 Duty and Interest can also be paid through e banking system. Detailed procedure Demo for e-payment can be accessed from ICEGATE website under e-payment gateway menu. Refer CBEC Circular 24/2012 Dated 5th September 2012, regarding Making E-payment of Customs duty mandatory. 6. Examination of Goods 6.1 After examination order in the case of First Check Bill of Entry, after assessment in the case of duty free import where duty assessed i....
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....iving 'out of charge'. Hence, only the certified photo copies of delivery order, Master Bill of Lading, House Bill of Lading should be attached instead of originals. 6.4 On the basis of the examination report, the Appraising Group may revise the assessment or raise a further query to the importers, if necessary. 6.5 After completion of the examination of the goods, if the Shed Appraiser/Superintendent is satisfied that the requirement of Section 47 of the Custom Act, 1962 have been complied with, he shall give 'Out of Charge" for the Bill of Entry on system. 6.6 After the out of charge order, the system will generate print of Importer's copy and Exchange Control copy of the Bill of Entry along with 3 copies of Order of Clearance. Print of the same shall be obtained from the designated computer terminal. The print copies of the Bill of Entry shall bear the Order of Clearance number and name of the examining Appraiser/Supdt. The importer's copy and Exchange Control copy of the Bill of Entry along with one copies of the order of clearance will be attached to the Customs copy of the Bill of Entry retained by the Shed Appraiser/Supdt. The importer shall present the remaining tw....
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....l be printed along with the revised assessed Bill of Entry. 8.2 After Out of Charge Order no amendment shall be allowed in the Bill of Entry. However, in case amendment is warranted after Out of Charge Order but before delivery of goods, the System Manager can cancel the out of charge Order in the system. The original prints of the Importer's and Exchange Control copies of Bill of Entry shall be retained by the System Manager in a file. After fresh Out of Charge Order new prints of the copies of Bill of Entry shall be given. 9 Re-assessment Any time after assessment and before Out of Charge Order, a Bill of Entry can be recalled and reassessed and put to reassessment by the AC/DC concerned, if it so warranted for any reason. 10 Advance Noting Advance B/E can also be filed in the ICES before the arrival of the vessel. In such cases, a B/E may be presented before the delivery of the import manifest, if the vessel by which the goods have been shipped is expected to arrive within 30 days from the date of presentation. The Customs broker/Importer may file an Advance B/E if he has the copies of the Bill of Lading and the invoice. The B/E would be filed and assessed in the ....
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....7-Cus., dated 7.04.1997 against a DEPB, the licence in question is required to be registered in the import system. The officer designated by Asst./Dy. Commissioner to register the DEPB in the system shall ensure that verification of DEPB with reference to the exports on the basis of which DEPB is issued by DGFT has been done prior to its registration in imports. (ii) All importers/CHAs are advised to ensure that their IEC details with PAN have been transmitted by DGFT to Customs at the time of obtaining the DEPB. The Customs broker/Importer shall furnish details of DEPB licence in pro-forma given as ANNEXURE A. (iii) The designated officer shall make data entry of the DEPB details in the system. After entry of data a checklist will be printed. The DEPB holder shall verify the details of DEPB in the check list, sign the check list and return the same to the officer.. The officer shall then complete the registration process in the System. After the DEPB is registered in ICES a "registration number" shall be generated by ICES which will be endorsed on the face of the original DEPB in bold figures with the name of CUSTOMS STATION at which registered. For further activities, eithe....
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....eck list will be signed by the DEPB holder and returned to the proper officer who will exercise option for issue of TRA in the System. The System shall generate three copies of the release advice titled as: 1. Customs copy for port of issue (office copy), 2. Customs copy for port of clearance and 3. Importer's copy. (iv) The office copy for port of issue shall be retained by the TRA issuing Customs Station and placed in the respective TRA file. Customs copy for port of clearance will be dispatched to the respective Customs Station and the importers copy of TRA shall be handed over to the applicant. (v) The requirement of production of original DEPB licence with incoming or outgoing TRAs at the respective port of clearance shall continue as per instructions issued from time to time in this behalf. 11.5 Re-credit of unutilized Release Advices Any unutilized credit in the Release Advice may be re-credited to the DEPB by the Assistant/Deputy Commissioner. A certificate of unutilized portion shall be generated at the port for which the TRA had been issued on the basis of which the balance in the DEPB licence shall be re-credited by the TRA issuing ....
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....t, the checklist may be returned to the data entry operator for submission of B/E in the System. Errors, if any, noticed may be got corrected by the data entry operator. 11.8 Submission of B/E On submission of the B/E in the System, an UN-ASSESSED copy of the B/E will be printed by the System containing statement of debit of DEPB for export FOB and duty amount in respect of each item of an invoice for which exemption is claimed against DEPB. 11.9 Assessment of B/E (i) The un-assessed copy of the B/E along with all the original import documents and all the DEPB licence/scripts in original indicating total amount of duty credit and export FOB utilized, in the debit sheet attached to the scrips, should be presented to the import Appraiser/Superintendent for assessment and signatures on debit sheets of DEPB scrips. The Appraiser/Supt. will retrieve the B/E on screen and assess the B/E in respect of all the items and shall countersign the debits in the original DEPB. The System will determine the duty amount on the basis of CIF/Quantity of goods and shall debit the duty from the DEPB credit ledger and the CIF from the FOB of Export. If sufficient balance to cover the CIF val....
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....f a Bill of Entry is processed manually, importers may choose to avail the exemption under the DEPB Scheme and get the DEPB debited for exempted amount of duty. In such cases manual B/E will be assessed as usual. After assessment, the amount of duty forgone due to exemption under DEPB and the CIF of goods imported being cleared against DEPB will be computed manually in respect of each DEPB scrip. (ii) The designated officer in the assessing group will debit the original DEPB. He will also enter the amount of duty foregone and the CIF of the exempted goods in the System, in the respective field of duty credit and export FOB. The debit screen can be accessed through the DEPB Registration Number. After debiting, the System will print the statement of debits of the DEPB in triplicate. The copies of this print will be attached with the manual B/E, DEPB file and DEPB scrip. Importers are therefore required to register the DEPB license even when clearances are sought against manually assessed B/E 12. Processing of B/E under Other Export Promotion Schemes Requiring Import Licence Bills of Entry relating to Export Promotion Schemes like DEEC/ADVANCE AUTHORISATION, DFRC/DFIA, EPCG, ....
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....ty Entitlement Pass book Scheme (DEPB) , Duty Exemption Scheme (DES) and Export Promotion Capital Goods Scheme (EPCG) from DGFT to Customs and vice versa through an Electronic Message Exchange System is in operation at all EDI Ports/ICES locations (iii) The licences, which have already been partially utilized, will be registered in the system only for the balances available. (iv) After successful entry of details, a check list will be printed by registration clerk and given to the licence holder for confirming correctness of the data entered. Registration clerk will make correction, if any and will return the same to the licence holder. It is the sole responsibility of the licence holder to verify and confirm the correctness of the data entered before proceeding further. License should not be sent by post or through a letter to custom house but should be presented by a person who shall get the data entry done, verify the correctness of data on the check list and shall present the licence to the Appraiser for registration and take possession of the same after registration. 12.2 Acceptance & Debit of Bonds (i) Where the export obligation has not been fulfilled and option ....
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.... other Customs station. No TRA needs to be issued for Customs location operating of ICES Version 1.5. TRA shall be issued only for non-ICES location. All TRAs against the licences registered in the system shall only be generated from system. Details for obtaining Release Advice shall be furnished in the Format given at Annexure-' D ' . Data entry will be done by the registration clerk. A check list will be printed for verifying the correctness by the applicant and for his signatures. Correction if any will be carried out by the registration clerk. The authorized Appraiser will thereafter verify the details from the original licence and satisfy himself about admissibility of issue of TRA. The system will generate TRA No. and three copies of the TRA will be available for print. The check list signed by the licence holder and the office copy of the TRA will be retained by the Appraiser for record. No amendment of TRA will be permitted after it has been issued by system. Fresh TRA can be obtained for any further quantity/value or the licence can be recredited by entering unutilized TRA. No TRA will be issued manually. 12.6 Debiting Of Licence For debits of licence value and quant....
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....e license, for the purpose of debit in the licence the quantity should be converted in to same unit of measurement as in the licence. For spare parts against EPCG licence S. No. of item will be '0' therefore, for availing benefits of exemption notification in respect of spares Item S. No. '0' should be indicated in column 9 of the Format indicated above. Against one item in the B/E only one licence will be debited. If the quantity &/or value in the licence is not sufficient to cover whole quantity &/or value of an item in the invoice, the invoice quantity should be split in to a separate item in the B/E for debit against another license or for normal assessment. Bond/BG details should also be provided wherever so required. (iii) After successful entry of data of the B/E in the system, a check list will be printed by the service center operator and given to the importer/Customs broker. The importer/Customs broker will check the details entered in the system and errors if any pointed out to the service center operator for carrying out corrections in the system. The Customs broker/importers before returning the check list to the operator for submission of B/E in the system shoul....
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....le and statement of debit of licence for value/qty and debit of Bond for duty foregone in respect of each item. The figures of these debits should be endorsed on the hard copy of the licence. 12.12 Examination/Out of Charge Procedure for goods registration, examination, out of charge and printing of B/E after out of charge will remain the same as mentioned above in Para 6. 13. Imports by 100% EOUs:- 13 .1 Registration of EOU All the 100% Export Oriented Units including STP/EHTP etc. will be required to be registered as EOU in the System before filing of a Bill of Entry. The designated officer shall make data entry for registration of an EOU. All verifications and authentications including all checks to determine the eligibility of the importer to be registered as an EOU and for exemption from duties shall be carried out before a unit is registered in the System as an EOU. Following details should be furnished by the EOU for registration. 1. EOU type: I. A-EOU-General I. B-EOU-Aquaculture I. C-EOU-Agriculture/Floriculture I. D-EOU-Granite I, E-EOU-gems and jewellery I. F-EOU-Others (specify) II....
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......with S.No of item in the notifications is required to be indicated against the respective item. The data entry operator shall enter the code of EOU against the field Exim code ............after entry of Exim code enter notification no. ../yr& S. No. After completion of entry of all the items of the Bill of Entry, a check list will be printed. In the check list against an item where EOU exemption is claimed the words (EOU) & notification no./yr & S.No.will be printed at the end of the check list details of Bond indicating the Bond no. Bond code, amount debited, Bank Guarantee debited or the details of certificate for central excise will be printed. (iv) The importer/Customs broker shall check the correctness of the details in the check list & return it to data entry operator for submission of the same in the system. On submission, the Bill of Entry shall be directed to Group VII for assessment. An unassessed copy of the Bill of Entry after submission shall be taken by the importers. 13.3 Appraising of EOU B/E. (i) The importer/Customs broker shall present the un-assessed Bill of Entry along with the Bonds/certificate and other documents supporting the claims of assessment....
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....l be deposited in the bank as usual. Unless the Bond Officer completes the action of debiting Bond in the system, the B/E will not be available for registration for examination and out of charge. Procedure for registration of Bond/BG has been explained in para 21.2 of this Public Notice. 14. Availing Exemption under JOBBING Scheme Notification No.32/97-Cus exempts goods imported for carrying out any job work and re-export subject to conditions specified in the said notification. Importers claiming the said exemption would be required to indicate the relevant Exim code and Notification in the columns "Additional information for claiming benefit under specified exemptions schemes". The Bond type "JO" will be indicated in the format for data entry, the Scheme code will be 20 and the exemption notification will be 032/97 item S.NO. 1. On submission print of an un-assessed copy of the B/E will be taken and presented to the designated Appraiser along with all the requisite documents. The Appraiser will recall the B/E on screen for assessment. Appraiser will be able to delete the notification to deny the exemption if so warranted, specify the Bond/BG requirements and modify the B....
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....ayed by the system. Tariff Headings and the Notifications can be changed if, so required. On completion of data entry a check list will be generated by the system against the respective Job No. The importers should ensure that the details of invoice S.No, item S.No. and the quantity of the goods under ex-Bonding are correct. The check list after corrections will be returned to the service center operator for submission of the Ex-Bond B/E. On submission the system will generate the B/E No. 15.2 Assessment The B/E will be allocated by the system to the Assessing Groups on the basis of same parameters as are applicable to all other types of Bs/E. Assessment will also be made by the officers in the same manner as in the case of any other type of Bs/E. Where a Warehouse B/E has been assessed provisionally the Ex-Bond B/E will also be assessed provisionally and no separate PD Bond will be required. However, in case of availing of exemption requiring Bond, same would need to be debited as in the case of any Home Consumption B/E. 15.3 Debiting of Bond After obtaining the print out from Service Centre the importer/Customs broker will get the Bond debited from Bond Section and ge....
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....O/C will be retained by the Bond Section, one copy will be retained by the officer controlling the Warehouse and the last copy will be for the Warehouse Keeper. Column for number of packages in the O/C will be blank. The Superintendent giving out of charge will endorse on the hard copies of the O/C package serial numbers and number of packages to be cleared against the respective Ex-Bond B/E and will put his signature with his office seal on the copies of O/C and also on the copies of Ex-Bond B/E. iii) In terms of Board circular no. 47/2002 payment of interest before extension of warehousing period can be captured in the system. Benefit of any interim interest so paid will be available on the last Ex- Bond BE related to that particular warehouse BE. 16. Bonds/Undertaking/Re-Export Bond For Conditional Exemptions Where the benefits of exemption under a notification is subject to execution of End use Bond, Undertaking or Re-export Bond, it would be necessary to register the respective type of Bond in the system before filing of the B/E. The Bond will be registered by the importers specifically for a notification. Details of the Bond in respect of each notification should be ....
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....rned Central Excise authority. 18. Certificates from other Authorities Certain notifications require certificates for eligibility of exemption from various other organizations like Ministry of External Affairs, Defence etc. Such certificates can be entered in the system under the category of Misc. Certificates = 'MC'. The following details will be entered; MC number and date Issuing authority and address Such certificates can be viewed by Assessing Officer and also will be printed on the B/E for verification in the Shed/Docks. 19 Closure of Bond/Undertaking The Bond or undertaking would be closed by the AC/DC. When the conditions of the Bond/undertaking are complied with, the AC/DC will enter the Bond No., the system will display all the Bs/E and related Item S. Nos. in respect of which the Bond has been debited. If the conditions of the Bond have been satisfied, the option to close the Bond may be exercised item by item. When all the items against which respective Bond has been debited are closed, the Bond can be cancelled. However, if the Sr No. of items are closed and the Bond is not cancelled the same will continue to be used if there is a balance in Bond a....
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....nds will be registered and maintained in the Bond Section. The Appraising Officer determines the Bond requirement. The type and the amount of Bond are decided by the Appraising Officer and are approved by the Assistant Commissioner. However system will assist in determining the type of Bond/BG and value. Bond requirement details will be printed on the BE after the assessment. The details include the type of Bond, amount and the Bank Guarantee. The Bonds will be managed centrally by Bond/BG Section. 21.2 Registration of Bond (i) The Bond module provides for registration of all Bonds/Undertakings, Bank Guarantees, Sureties etc. in the system. The importer shall furnish the following details for registration: - Bonds/Undertakings 1. IEC 2. Bond Type 3. Bond Amount * 4. Revolving/Specific 5. Date of Bond 6. Date of Expiry 7. Date of enforcement 8. Whether BG Y/N 9. Surety Y/N 10. Cash Deposit Y/N 11. Remarks * for Bonds already executed, the existing balance to be captured as opening balance in the Ledger BG Details 1. Serial No. (as given by the ....
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....e Bond Cell, he has to specify the type of Bond and Registration Number in the Service Centre declaration. However, the Bond value and BG amount is determined by the Appraising Officer. If Continuity Bond is not there, no declaration (Bond) needs to be given in the Service Centre. Bond details will be printed on the Checklist. (b) In case of EOU Bond already submitted at the Central Excise Commissioner ate/Office, the Certificate Number has to be provided. If Certificate Number is declared, EOU Bond is not required. (ii) Appraising The Appraising Officer has the option to ask for Bond as condition of assessment. The following type of Bonds can be opted: * Provisional Duty Bond-General * Test Bond * End Use Bond/Undertaking * Transit Bond * Provisional Duty Bond-Project Imports * Extra Duty Deposit * EOU Bond * Warehouse Bond B/E Type `W': Warehouse Bond is mandatory. EOU Bond: In case of items, where EOU Notification is claimed, EOU Bond or a procurement Certificate from Central Excise authorities is mandatory. (iii) Provisional Assessment: If any of the item is assessed provisionally, the ....
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....a) Continuity or a specific Bond shall be accepted & registered in the system. A continuity Bond registered in the system can be utilized in respect of electronic as well as manual bills of entry. For debiting manual Bill of Entry, the Bond officer shall select the option of MBE-debit and enter the details of the manual Bill of Entry and amount of Bond/BG etc. After debiting, a debit slip will be generated which can be printed one copy of slip should be attached with the B/E and other copy given to the importer. In respect of Bills of Entry where processing has not yet been automated, it would still be possible under the aforesaid Bond Management System to register the Bond in the system and utilize it against a manually processed Bill of entry as per procedure indicated above in respect of a continuity/revolving Bond. (b) Consequent upon the introduction of the Bond Management System, changes are being proposed in the processing of Bills of Entry for Warehousing of Imported goods and goods assessed to duty provisionally. The Bills of Entry would be linked to the respective Bonds and the system will maintain an account in this behalf. The procedure for processing ....
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....ond will also be printed on the Importer's copy and Exchange control copy of B/E. (b) In case any Cash deposit is required to be taken, the Appraiser can specify the amount of Cash deposit, the Challan for Cash deposit will also be printed with the assessed copy of B/E which will also be deposited with the designated bank like the duty and fine/penalty. (c) Facility has also been provided in ICES 1.5 to finalize the assessments of provisionally assessed Bills of Entry by the group Appraiser and AC/DC. 22. High Sea Sales Consignments (i) This category would cover all imports where the goods have been transferred by the original importer by sale or otherwise before their clearance from Customs. The EDI system has been designed to provide for both the options namely, the ultimate buyer paying a percentage loading over the invoice price or a fixed sum in addition to the invoice price based on the high sea sale agreement and the local invoice to arrive at the final assessable value. (ii) If the goods have been purchased on High Seas Sales basis, option `Y' should be indicated at S.No 5C in the format. The IEC & Branch code of the original importers i.e. Seller of goods on....
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....on the article the relevant column should be filled(Y/N). If yes following particulars should be furnished. Invoice S No Item Sl No. Description No. of Units Retail Sale Price --------------- No.------- (with specifications) ----------- Rs. Per unit......" (iii) The importers/CHAs would be required to declare the retail sale price of the items to which the provisions of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act. 1976 or any other law in this behalf applies and which are notified under a notification issued under Section 4A of the Central Excise Act. 1944. It would be advisable to specify these details at Serial No. ..... (Claim of assessment)for each pack size of the imported item. For example if tooth paste is imported in sizes of 50 gms., 100 gms. And 150 gms. it is suggested that these be noted as three separate entries in the aforesaid Serial No. ..... (Claim to assessment) since they would be having three separate retail prices. Each article, which has different characters, specification including the difference in size of packing should be declared separate items in the Bill of Entry with a separate unit retail sale price. (iv) The retail s....
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....After final order is given by the Special Valuation Branch, the final assessment shall be carried out in the system.. 25. Anti-Dumping Duty (i) Notification Directory A directory of the notifications issued by the Central Government notifying the rates of anti-dumping duty has been created in the system. Notifications issued do not have a defined structure; therefore, these notifications have been re-structured in tabulated form providing a unique Serial No. of an item and a unique Serial No of producer/exporter of goods from a specified country. Due to re-structuring of the notifications into a defined format the Serial No. at which the goods/country/producer/exporter is appearing in the notification of the ministry may differ in the notification directory. Therefore, the directory may be carefully studied to identify the correct Serial No. of the item and producer/export for applying the relevant rate of duty. The notification directory is available at 'www.cbec.gov.in' and 'www.icegate.gov.in' websites. The directory can be downloaded from the said websites for reference. (ii) Filing of Bill Of Entry The importer would be required to declare the Anti-dumping notif....
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....e purpose of data entry in the system, the details of Tariff Value should be indicated in Column (3) of the Table 39B (Classification Details) of Appendix-A the Format for Declaration at Service Centre for Data Entry. The extract of the Table is indicated below. 39B. Classification Details (1) Invoice Serial Number (2) Actual Invoice Number (3) Classification Details Item No. RITC 8 digit CTH ANotf n IS No PS No QTY T Notif n No IS No Qty Exemp. NotfYr Sl No. CTH Notf n Sl No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Abbreviations in Col. (3) above refer as under. T Notn = Tariff Value notification number/year I S No. = S.No. in the notification QTY = Qty in the unit of measurement on the basis of which Tariff value fixed. 27. Assessment of Bill of Entry The tariff value is itself the assessable value, therefore, invoice value will be ignored by the system and the duty would be calculated on the basis of tariff value. If the Tariff value is in any foreign currency, the same would be converted into Indian rupees on the basis of exchange rate applicable to that currency a....
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....rd Schemes PROCEDURE 3. The procedure to be followed in respect of filing of Shipping Bills under the Indian Customs EDI System 1.5 at the ICD shall be as follows: - Under the EDI System the Shipping Bills shall be filed electronically and processed online in an automated environment. Certain declarations and certificates etc. that are required to be provided in hard copy should be attached with export documents when the goods are presented for export. The following pre-requisites are to be complied with before filing shipping bills: 3.1 IE-Code of the exporters- Import Export (IE) Codes are being issued to the exporters by DGFT, details of which are transmitted online to ICES on a daily basis. ICES automatically register the IE Codes after confirming their validity, to enable the exporters to file the shipping bills electronically. Before filing the Shipping Bills the exporters are advised to check from DGFT as to whether their IE Code has already been transmitted to ICES. If their IE Code has not been transmitted to ICES by DGFT, they should first get the same transmitted from DGFT, failing which the exporter shall not be able to file shipping bills for export. (DGFT'....
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....h bank account in the ICES 1.5. Annexure E (Export) 3.6 Exchange Rates of un-notified currencies: The ICES 1.5 maintains exchange rates in respect of currencies the rates of which are notified by the Ministry of Finance on a monthly basis. However, in respect of currencies which are not covered in the notifications of the Ministry of Finance, the concerned bank's certificate indicating the exchange rate applicable for the date on which the shipping bill is filed should be produced to the customs officer and details of the same should be entered in the ICES 1.5 while filing the shipping bill. The shipping bill should be submitted in the system on the same date for which the rate of exchange is certified. 3.7 Exim Scheme Codes: DGFT has notified Exim Scheme Codes in respect of various schemes, the list of which is appended with this Public Notice. An appropriate Code should be indicated against each item in the shipping bill. For example, if exports are under claim of Drawback Code 19 should be used. Appendix 3 3.8 Units of Measurement Codes: Against any quantity of goods, the appropriate Code indicated against the respective measurement in the list appended with this Public....
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.... filed through the service center located in the ICD or through Remote EDI System if the Exporter or the Customs broker have registered themselves at ICEGATE. In case the shipping bill is filed through Service Centre, the Exporters/CHAs would be required to submit a filled up form (Annexure A) at the Service Centre with the following documents: i) A declaration of all particulars in the SB in the format placed at Annexure-A (Export) ii) Copy of Invoice iii) SDF declaration at Annexure B (Export) iv) DES/EPCG declarations etc. as applicable Annexure D (Export) 4.2 The formats should be duly complete in all respects and should be signed by the exporter or his authorized representative/Customs broker. Forms, which are incomplete or unsigned, will not be accepted for data entry. Exporters/Customs broker should ensure that the data provided by them and entered by service center is correct in all respect so that process of clearance of export is smooth. 4.3 Data entry of Shipping Bills would be done at the Service Centers on payment of charges. Various charges for printing and data entry excluding Service Tax are given in para 1.11 above which sh....
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....ld be required to file two copies of a declaration in the form SDF(Annexure B). It would be filed at the stage of "goods arrival". The Appraiser is required to verify such in the checklist and endorse same inoriginal copy of the S/B generated by the system and retained by the Customs. The second copy would be attached to the duplicate S/B (the exchange control copy) and shall be presented by the exporter to the authorised dealer through whom export realization would be negotiated for collection of foreign currency. . Only in the case of Shipping Bills processed manually, the existing arrangement of filing GR 1 forms would continue. 5.2 The exporters are required to obtain a certificate from the bank through which they would be realizing the export proceeds. If the exporter wishes to operate through different banks for the purpose, a certificate would have to be obtained from each of the banks. The certificate(s) would be submitted to Customs and registered in the system as mentioned above. These would have to be submitted once a year for confirmation or whenever there is change of bank. 5.3 In the declaration form (Annexure A-Export) to be filed by the exporters for the elect....
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....S/B. 8. CUSTOMS EXAMINATION OF EXPORT CARGO 8.1 On receipt of the goods in the Export Shed in the ICD/CFS, the exporter will contact the Examining Officer/Inspector and present the checklist with the endorsement of Custodian of arrival of containers on the declaration, along with all original documents such as Invoice, Packing List, ARE-1 (AR-4) etc. He will also present additional particulars in the form at Annexure C(Export) 8.2 The Officer will verify the quantity of the goods actually received against that entered in the system. He will enter Annexure C particulars in the system. The system would identify the Examining Officer (if more than one are available) who would be carrying out physical examination of goods. The system would also indicate the packages (the quantity and the serial numbers) to be subjected to examination. The Officer would write this information (Name of examination officer and package Srl. Nos to be examined) on the checklist and hand it over to the exporter. He would hand over the original documents to the Examining Officer. No examination orders shall be given unless the goods have been physically received in the Export Shed. It may, however, b....
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....stem, the same shall be examined and report entered in the system. The Shed Appraiser/Superintendent may also decide to re-examine the container in which case he will obtain the approval of AC/DC Export, before such re-examination. The AC/DC Export shall permit such reexamination for reasons to be recorded in writing. 9.4 Once the Appraiser/Superintendent is satisfied that the goods are permissible for export in all respects, he will proceed to allow "Let Export" in the system for the shipments and inform the exporter. 9.5 This procedure will apply to containers stuffed in factories and self-sealed by the manufacturer-exporter. In respect of containers sealed in the factory after examination by the Customs/C.Excise officers, there will normally be no further examination at the ICD. 10. GENERATION OF SHIPPING BILLS 10.1 As soon as the Shed Appraiser/Superintendent gives "Let Export" order, the system would print 6 copies of the Shipping Bills in case of Free and scheme Shipping Bills. All copies of the Shipping Bill would be duly signed by the Appraiser/Shed Superintendent. The examination report would be signed by the Appraiser/Shed Superintendent, Examination Officer a....
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....t., which needs to be approved by concerned AC/DC (Exports). The S/B will remain pending and cannot be printed till the exporter replies to the query to the satisfaction of the Assistant Commissioner/Deputy Commissioner. The reply to query if any can be submitted through ICEGATE or through Service Centre. 14 AMENDMENTS 14.1 Corrections/amendments in the checklist can be made at the Service Centre provided the system has not generated the S/B number. Where corrections are required to be made after the generation of the S/B No. or, after the goods have been brought in the docks/CFS, amendments will be carried out in the following manner. 1. If the goods have not yet been allowed "Let Export", Assistant Commissioner/Deputy Commissioner may allow the amendment. 2. Where the "Let Export" order has been given, the Additional/Joint Commissioner (Exports) would allow the amendments. 14.2 In both the cases, after the permission for amendments has been granted, the Assistant Commissioner (Exports) will approve the amendments on the system. Where the print out of the S/B has already been generated, the exporter will surrender all copies of the Shipping Bill to the A....
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....export the goods through ICD under claim for Drawback are advised to open their account with the bank as stated in Para 3.5 above. This is required to be done to enable direct credit of the Drawback amount to the exporter's account, as no cheques would be issued for payment of drawback. The exporters are required to indicate their account number opened with the Bank. It would not be possible to accept any shipment for export under claim for Drawback in case the account number of the exporter is not indicated in the declaration form. 20.3 The exporters are also required to give their account number along with the details of the Authorized Dealer bank through which the export proceeds are to be realized. 20.4 As indicated earlier Export declarations involving a drawback amount of more than Rupees One lakh will be processed on the system by the AC/DC before the goods can be brought for examination and for allowing "Let Export". 20.5 The drawback claims are sanctioned subject to the provisions of the Customs Act 1962, the Customs and Central Excise Duties Drawback Rules 1995 and conditions prescribed under different sub-headings of the All Industry rates as per notified by....
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....re he operates his bank account, in addition to the core banking enabled account number, bank name and address in the prescribed format (As per the Annexure F to this Public Notice). The IFS Code No. can be obtained by the exporter from his bank branch. b) At the time of registration of the bank account with the Customs authorities the exporter will be required to produce a certificate from the bank branch, where he operates his bank account, certifying the correctness of the IFS code and bank account number of the exporter and a copy of the same shall also be submitted to the authorized bank branch at the EDI location. c) Whenever there is a change in the exporter's bank account number the same procedure is required to be followed by the exporter for fresh registration of new bank account number. d) State Bank of India, Chhaoni Branch, Nagpur (Maharashtra)) is authorized for disbursement of drawback amount online. 20.9 Supplementary Drawback Claims: If the drawback amount initially paid is less then entitlement the exporter can file application for supplementary claim for additional amount. For such claims after approval of sanction of supplementary c....
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....mmediately on generation of file no. which is generated by DGFT on submission of application for licenses under DES. Accordingly DGFT would transmit the messages relating to File Numbers so generated by them to Customs so as to enable Customs to permit exports under DES. As, the exports under EPCG can be started only after issuance of license; the DGFT would transmit the License messages immediately on issuance of licenses under DES and EPCG scheme. The licenses under above mentioned schemes issued by DGFT would be received online by Customs. Such licenses would be subjected to the prescribed online validation checks at ICEGATE and thereafter, the same would be available for use by the exporters at the port of registration for imports. Details of such licenses would also be available on the home page of website, www.icegate.gov.in. As mentioned above, exports under DES can be started immediately after receipt of file number message from DGFT by quoting the relevant File Number allocated by DGFT on the export documents. After issuance of licenses, exporters would be required to quote the relevant license number on the export documents. 22.2 There is no need of registration of fil....
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....PT THOSE ISSUED UNDER Scheme Code 17) issued on or after 30th September 2008 there is no need of any registration at this port. However, in case of EPCG/DES issued prior to 30th September 2008 and DES issued Scheme Code 17, the exporters intending to file Shipping Bills under the aforesaid schemes including those under the claim for Drawback should first get their EPCG/DES (issued upto19th June 2014 by the DGFT) registered with this port, which would be done by the designated officer. The original EPCG/DES would need to be produced before designated officer for data entry. A print out of the relevant particulars (Checklist) entered will be given to the Exporter/Customs broker. The EPCG/DES would need to be presented to the Appraiser/Supt, who would verify the particulars entered in the computer with the original EPCG/DES and register &verify the same in the EDI system. The Registration No. of the EPCG/DES would be furnished to the Exporter/Customs broker, which would need to be mentioned on the declaration forms (Annexure D) at this port for export of goods. It would not be necessary thereafter for the Exporter/Customs broker to produce the original EPCG/DES for processing of the e....
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....iling of EGM The shipping bills shall be finally closed on receipt of Train Summary from the Custodian of ICD. The Custodian should transmit the Truck/Train Summary of the containers moved out of ICD to gateway port. The final EGM shall be filed by Shipping lines at the gateway port. 26. Monitoring of foreign exchange realization: (a) The exporters filing Shipping Bills (S/Bs) under drawback shall furnish a declarationto the Assistant Commissioner/Deputy Commissioner (Drawback) providing the details of all Authorized Dealers (AD), their codes and addresses through which they intend to realize the export proceeds. Such a declaration shall be filed at each port of export through which the exporter exports his goods. In case, there is a new addition of AD, the same is to be intimated to the concerned Custom House at the port of Export. (b) The system would generate on all Shipping Bills, the due date for submission of BRCs. (c) The exporter shall submit a certificate from the Authorized Dealer(s) in respect of whom declaration has been filed containing details of the shipments which remain outstanding beyond the prescribed time limit, including the extended time, if any....
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....atement furnished by the exporter gives the list of S/Bs, for a particular six month period, for which foreign exchange has not been realized (and implication foreign exchange has been realized for all other S/Bs) then, the officer will choose option (3). This will allow the officer to enter the S/Bs for which the BRCs are pending. Thereafter, all S/Bs except such pending S/Bs will be deleted from the list. (iv) The BRC entry module also enables the Department to remove the list of S/Bs from the pendency list if drawback is recovered subsequently. In such cases, the officer may choose option (1) and enter the order no./challan no. and date and also the no. and date of all shipping Bills for which the drawback has been realized. Thereafter, all such S/Bs will be deleted from the pendency list. 27. The system will indicate to the Assistant Commissioner/Deputy Commissioner (Drawback) all cases of Drawback Shipping Bills if the BRC/negative statement in the prescribed Annexure enclosed to the Board's Circular is not submitted by the exporter within the prescribed period. Further, the exporters are required to furnish the BRCs/negative statement in the prescribed Annexure as....
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....N based service tax registration number)and register the same in ICES 1.5. Necessary details should be provided in part 'B' of said Annexure 'A' along with self-certified copy of central excise registration certificate or service tax code number certificate. This will be entered in ICES 1.5 by the designated customs officer having 'CLK' role. ICES 1.5 will verify these details with the details available from ACES. A checklist shall be printed and the exporter/his authorized representation should check its correctness and return to customs officer after signing etc. Then the details will be saved in Systems. This is one time registration and mandatory for all exporters claiming S.T Refund. ICES 1.5 will not accept shipping Bills with claim of STR if these details are not registered. Option is available with the CLK Role to modify/amend the bank account details and central excise registration number/service tax code number. It may be noted that registration of bank account and central excise registration number/service tax code number has to be done at each customs location separately. While capturing central excise registration certificate or service tax code number in ICES 1.....
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....ipped cargo (Foreign to Foreign) iii) Export of cargo tendered at one Customs airport for export from another Customs Airport. 29.1 IMPORT Transshipment of cargo from an international airport in India (gateway airport) to Nagpur Airport (destination airport) is allowed on Air India Flights and also on all private sector airlines flights. The procedure is as follows:- i) On arrival of flight at the gateway airport, the transshipment cargo will be segregated in premises of the custodian of the gateway airport. ii) The concerned carrier/console agent is required to file an application to Customs at the gateway airport seeking transshipment of cargo consigned to ACC, Nagpur as indicated in HAWB. As per Regulation 4(1) (c) read with Regulation 3 (c) (iii) of the 'Import Manifest (Air Craft Regulations), 1976' the carrier/console agent shall prepare a Cargo Transfer Manifest (CTM) for the purpose of transshipment to ACC Nagpur. The CTM shall itself be treated as application for transshipment and shall be approved by the Proper Officer at the gateway port. iii) At the gateway airport, the cargo mentioned in the CTM needs to be escorted by the Prev....
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.... airlines/carrier and approved by the proper officer. TP should be sent along with the cargo. Transshipment Bond executed by Custodian with the Commissioner of Customs, Nagpur-I as per terms and conditions mentioned at Regulation 5(4) of HCCAR' 2009 shall be debited for the value of cargo. i) On arrival at the gateway airport, the cargo should be taken to the warehouse of the domestic airlines/custodian in a clearly identified area. The warehouse should have double locking arrangement, one key of which will be with the airlines/custodian and the other with Customs. The Customs officers in charge of warehouse should verify the details of the packages with the TP, Airway Bill, etc. The domestic airlines may prepare the CTM airlines-wise which shall be certified by the Export Freight Officer (EFO). ii) Cargo should be shifted to the transshipment warehouse in the export terminal of custodian and acknowledgement obtained. No examination of such cargo should normally be done at gateway airport, except on credible intelligence or information. iii) When the aircraft is ready for loading, the airlines should seek permission from the EFO for loading. The load plan....