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Customs - Electronic Sealing - Deposit in and removal of goods from Customs Bonded Warehouses - Certain guidelines / instructions
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....mer Agents Custodians/Customs Cargo Service Providers, Trade Associations / Chamber of Commerce, Members of the RAC / PGC / CCFC is invited to the Board's Circular No.19/2018-Customs, dated 18.06.2018 issued from F. No.484/3/2015-LC(Vol.II) on guidelines prescribing the procedure on deposit in and removal of goods from Customs Bonded Warehouses. The procedure prescribed is as below: 1. The Warehouse (Custody & Handling of Goods) Regulations, 2016, the Special Warehouse (Custody & Handling of Goods) Regulations, 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 t....
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....deposit in a warehouse as well as removal therefrom. Therefore, wherever the Warehousing Regulations (referred in para 1 above) prescribe affixing of a "One Time Lock", the importer or owner of the goods shall use RFID anti-tamper one- time-locks (hereinafter referred as "RFID OTL"). 4. The RFIDOTLs shall be sourced from the vendors whose names appear on the list placed on the website of the CBIC (please see weblink alongside to Circular 36 & 37/2017 on www.cbic.gov.in). 4.1 Considering the fact 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 ....
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.... (ii) Bill of Entry Number. (iii) Date (iv) RFID OTL 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) Warehouse code (x) Customs location code (b) The data elements to be captured in the web-application in the case of removal goods from a warehouse t a customs station for export shall be as follows: (i) IEC (Importer Exporter Code) (ii) Shipping Bill Number. (iii) Date (iv) RFID OTL number (v) Date of sealing (vi) Time of sealing (vii) Container Number (where cargo is containeri....
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.... deposit in a warehouse shall obtain an RFID seal from the Warehouse where the goods are to be deposited. e) Vendors shall ensure that TID number is captured in their data base and warehouse code of the licencee is linked to the same at the time of sale of seals. f) Vendors shall ensure that data can be uploaded from internet enabled Readers as well as desktops. g) Circular No. 19/2016-Cus dated 20th May, 2016 prescribes that the importer shall declare the warehouse code in the Bill of Entry for warehousing. The Out of Charge Officer releasing the cargo for deposit in a warehouse is advised to match the warehouse code declared in the bill of entry with that linked to the seal. This procedure shall dispense the nee....
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.... officer and licencee. This will enable discharge of the requirement of acknowledgement enjoined under the regulation (5). However, this is notwithstanding the obligation cast on the licencee under Warehouse (Custody & Handling) Regulations 2016 for accountal of goods [Regulation (5) and (7) refer]. l) For the purpose of risk management, if there is any inordinate delay in the due arrival of goods, the bond officer may alerted by the customs station or vice versa. m) Where any procedure requires that goods removed from a warehouse shall move under physical escort by customs (eg. As prescribed by circular 32/2016 regarding Duty Free Shops), the use of RFID OTL shall not apply. 5. The Principal Commissioner of Customs / C....