Electronic sealing - Deposit in and removal of goods from Customs bonded Warehouses

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....gulations, 2016, Warehoused Goods (Removal) Regulations 2016 and circular 17/2016-Cus prescribe the affixation of a one-time-lock for transport of goods to be deposited in a warehouse or removed therefrom. 2. The regulations require that goods arriving at the warehouse from a customs station shall be affixed with a one-time-lock with its serial number endorsed upon the bill of entry for warehousing and the transport document. The warehouse keeper or bond officer, as the case may be, is required to inspect the seal and when it is found intact, permit the goods to be unloaded at the warehouse. Circular 17/2016- Cus dated 14th May 2016 prescribes that in case of removal of goods from a customs station for deposit into a warehouse, the conta....

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....ct that goods may be removed through a variety of vehicles, different types of RFID OTLs, such as bolt seals (already specified by circular 36/2017-Cus) or wire - cable seal shall be used. The specifications, data elements and procedure to be used under the Regulations for Warehousing shall be as follows: 4.2 Seals (i) For containers (RFID One-Time-Bolt Seal) As prescribed under circular 36/2017- Customs dated 28th August 2017 (ii) For closed body vehicles (RFID Wire Cable seal) (a) Each seal shall be a one-time-lock bearing a unique serial number and brand of the vendor in the format ABCD XXXX XXXX, where ABCD stands for the brand of the vendor and X (8 digit) is a numerical digit from 0-9. (b) The RFID seal s....

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....ii) Shipping Bill Number. (iii) Date (iv) RFID OTI, number (v) Date of sealing (vi) Time of sealing (vii) Container Number (where cargo is containerized or else not required) (viii) Registration number of vehicle (ix) Customs location code (x) Warehouse code (c) The data elements to be captured in the web-application in the case of removal goods from a warehouse to another warehouse (section 67): (i) IEC (Importer Exporter Code) (ii) Bill of Entry No. (iii) Date (iv) Warehouse code (origin) (v) Warehouse code (destination) (vi) RFID OTL, number (vii) Date of sealing (viii) Time of sealing ....

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....sed to match the warehouse code declared in the bill of entry with that linked to the seal. This procedure shall dispense the need for securing any space availability certificates by importers. (h) The exporter of warehoused goods will be obligated to declare the physical serial number of the RFID OTL at the time of filing the online integrated shipping bill or in the case of manual shipping bill, before the container or cargo is dispatched from the warehouse. (i) In case the RFID OTL is found to be tampered at the Customs Station at the time of export, then mandatory examination would be carried out by the Customs authorities. (j) In case at the time of arrival of the goods at the warehouse, the RFID OTL is found to be tampered, t....