TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
Export procedure & Sealing of Containerized Cargo
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....lars both on the Excise and Customs side on the issue of sealing f containers. At present, there are three categories of containers which arrive at the port/ICD: a. Containers stuffed at factory premises or warehouse under self-sealing procedure. b. Containers stuffed/sealed at factory premises or warehouse under supervision of Central Excise officer. c. Containers stuffed and sealed at Container Freight Stations/ Inland Container Depot 2. For the sake f uniformity and ease f doing business, Board has decided to simplify the procedure relating to factory stuffing hitherto carried out under the supervision f the Central Excise officers. It is the endeavour of the Board to create a trust based environment where c....
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.... e) The Exporter will submit attested copies of IEC issued by DGFT/GSTIN. f) The Exporter will submit copies of ownership documents of the premises /factory or rental /leave agreement where stuffing of the export goods into containers is to be done. 4. The Intimation along with its enclosure will be received by officer at Division office, and a duly acknowledged copy would be returned to the exporter. The Superintendent/inspector shall inspect the premises with regard to the viability of stuffing of containers in the premises and submit a report to the Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of Customs (Division office) within 48 hours. 5. The Deputy/Assistant, Division Office shall the proposal to the Principal Commissioner/Com....
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....Shipping Bill under digital signature. 11. All consignments in self-sealed containers shall be subject to risk based criteria and intelligence. if any. for examination/inspection at the port of export. At the port/ICD as the case may be, the customs officer would verify the integrity of the electronic seals to check for tampering if any enroute. The Risk Management System (RMS) is being suitably revamped to improvise the interdiction/ examination norms. However. random or intelligence based selection of such containers for examination/scanning would continue. 12. The Exporter are herby informed to contact at following offices in respect of their self-sealing request based on their factory address to the Customs office having Jurisdict....
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....system of supervised factory stuffing, will be automatically entitled for self-sealing procedure. All exporter AEOs will also be eligible for self- sealing. It is clarified that all those exporters who are already operating under the self-sealing procedure need not approach the jurisdiction Customs Authorities for the self-sealing permission. 2(b) The permission to self-seal the export goods from a particular premise, under the revised procedure, once granted shall be valid unless withdrawn by the jurisdictional Principal commissioner or Commissioner of Customs if non-compliance to law, rules & regulations is noticed. In case the exporter makes a request for a change in the approved premise(s), then the procedure prescribed in circ....
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.... The exporters shall be responsible for procuring the seals at their own cost for use in self-sealing. 3(b) Each Seal shall be one time bolt seal 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 digit) is a numerical digit from 0-9. 3(c) The RFD seal shall confirm to ISO 17712.2013 (H) and ISO/IEC 18000-6 Class 1 Gen 2 which is globally accepted in industrial applications and Can be read with the use of UHF (i.e 860 MHz to 960 MHz) Reader Scanners. 3(d) The manufacturer or vendor , as the case may be , shall be in possession of certification required for conformance of the ISO standard 17712:2013 (h) namely clause 4,5 & 6. Before....
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....all be required to make arrangement for reading/scanning of RFID one -time Bolt seals at the Customs ports/ICDs at their own cost whether through handheld readers or fixed readers. 4(d) the integrity of the RFD seal would be verified by the Customs officer at the port/ICD by using the reader-scanners which are connected to Data Retrieval System of vendor. 4(e) since all ICDs /ports where containerized cargo is handled would require reader scanners Principal Commissioner or commissioner exercising administrative control over such ports. 4(f) the Transaction history of the self-sealing should be visible to the exporters for their reference. 4(g) the vendor shall also undertake to integrate the information s....