Public Notice in respect of Reducing/eliminating printouts in Customs Clearance

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....make cargo clearance easier is to reduce the use of paper and to introduce electronic messaging and paperless processing. The Board seeks to ensure that the success achieved over the years in advancing automated clearance processes, EDI messaging and digital signatures translate into a paper-free environment, besides reducing transaction costs. 3. With the above objective to promote ease of doing business by reducing use of paper, the Board has decided as under: 3.1. GAR7 forms/TR-6 Challans: On completion of assessment of a Bill of Entry, The ICES generate a challan message, which is transmitted to the designated bank branches through ICECATE. At the beginning of the day, a message is generated for those Bills of Entry, where duty payme....

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....stination ICD or Port. Transshipment permit can also be printed by the carrier in his office or in the custom house. Therefore, there does not remain need for printing the TP copy However, where the ICDs/CFSs and the gateway port are not interconnected, manual copy or printing of TP copy may continue. 3.3. Shipping Bill (Exchange Control copy and Export Promotion copy) After the Appraiser grants LEO (Let Export Order) in the system, printout of the Shipping Bill is generated by the system in triplicate i.e. (i) Customs copy (ii) Exporters copy and (iii) Exchange Control Copy. The fourth copy namely the Export Promotion Copy is generated after submission of ECM. Further, with regard to Shipping Bill: a. detailed copy of the Shipping Bill....