Single Window Project - Simplification of procedure In SWIFT for clearance of consignments related to drugs & cosmetics

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....plify the procedure for clearance of goods related to Drugs & Cosmetics: Items that are Chemicals and Not Drugs: 2.1 Several items falling under different Customs Tariff Heads which have been mapped in SWIFT as requiring clearance from Assistant Drug Controller's (ADC) office are chemicals and not drugs. These are being routed for ADCs clearance by virtue of the Customs Tariff Heads under which they are declared, and the ADC's office routinely declares them as gout of scope". In this regard, a list of such items have been prepared and published on the ICEGATE website as part of PGA Exemption Category (PEC). Importers of such goods should identify their items on this PEC list and include them as part of the Integrated Declar....

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....rance if the importers or their Customs Brokers declare as follows: a) While providing the item details, it must be declared that the item is not pharmaceutical grade and does not contain any Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. b) The 'intended end use/ purpose of import' that is declared as part of item details should not be for human or veterinary medicinal purposes. Risk-based testing & procedure for drawing of samples: 2.3 Samples will be drawn for testing of products based on risk. In this regard, the DCGI has already outlined the criteria for risk-based testing under which intervention for Inspection and sampling by ADC officers will be significantly reduced. Further, the procedure for drawing of samples for drugs has be....

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....ate hardcopies of the same declarations undertakings and letters of guarantee. These shall be subsumed as part of the Integrated Declaration. Mapping ADC's office to ICES Locations: 2.6 Drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, non-critical diagnostics, dual use items, feed grade items etc, which require ADC clearance shall be imported only at the ports notified by CDSCO/DCGI. However, if consignments landed from vessel or aircrafts at a notified port are subsequently transshipped to another Customs location, the consignment will be referred for regulatory clearance purposes to the nearest ADC for clearance. For this purpose, when SWIFT was launched, all ICES locations were already mapped in the system to the nearest ADCs office for routin....