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Launch of Indian Customs EDI System- (ICES 1.5) for Imports and Exports, at Kollam Sea Port (INKUK1), Pallithottam P.O, Kollam, Kerala -691006
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....nd shall be processed online in an automated computerized environment. Certain declarations and certificates, etc., in original, wherever required shall continue to be attached with the assessed copy of the Bill of Entry when the same is presented in the Import Shed for the clearance of goods. The requisite documents also can be called for by the Appraising Group, if required, while acting on the Bills of Entry. There are certain pre-requisites for filing the electronic declarations which are required to be complied with before filing the Bill of Entry. 1.1 Registration of IE-Code of the Importer (i) IE-Code is being issued to the importers by DGFT, details of which are transmitted online to the Indian Customs EDI-System (ICES) on a daily basis. ICES automatically register the IE-Codes after confirming its validity to enable the importers to file the Bill of Entry electronically. Before filing the Bill of Entry, the importers are advised to check from the DGFT as to whether their IE-Code has already been transmitted to ICES. If their IE-Code has not been transmitted to the ICES by the DGFT, they should first get the same transmitted from DGFT, failing which they w....
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....ating the exchange rate applicable for the date on which the Bill of Entry is filed should be obtained by the Customs Broker/ Importer from any Nationalized Bank. Only this exchange rate should be entered in the system in the respective field while making entry of B/E data and should be presented along with assessed copy of B/E at the time of taking out of charge, to the Customs officer. 1.5 Currency Codes For indicating value of goods, freight, insurance, commission, etc., codes specified against the respective currencies indicated in the list of currency codes appended with this Public Notice should only be used. Incorrect code will result in incorrect conversion of Indian Rupees. (List of Currency Codes attached as Appendix 4 ) 1.6 Units of Measurement Codes Against any quantity of goods, appropriate Code indicated against the respective measurement in the list appended with this Public Notice should only be used in the Bill of Entry and IGM, as the case may be. It is further informed that if UQCs, other than the Standard UQCs of the customs tariff are used, the B/E may not get any facilitation in RMS. Reference is also invited to the CBEC Cir....
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.... of charges for data entry in the Centre shall be as follows:- I - SERVICE CHARGES FOR DIGITISATION OF DOCUMENTS AT SERVICE CENTRE For manual documents getting data entry done at Service Centre (i) Bill of Entry/Shipping Bill having up to five items: Rs. 80 (ii) Each Additional Block of five items: Rs. 10 (iii) IGM: Rs. 80 (iv) EGM: Rs. 80 (v) Other documents (such as UAB, Transhipmente tc) : Rs. 80 (vi) Amendments to original declaration by customer in BE/SB/Other documents: Rs. 10 (vii) Queries (including reply feeding): Nil - for 3 queries and Rs. 10 for each query thereafter. (viii) Printing check list: NIL (ix) Printing of assessed documents (SB/BE/ OOC/ LEO/Challan etc): NIL II. SERVICE CHARGES FOR 'RES' DOCUMENTS ICEGATE or any other manner of Remote EDI filing: (i) Printing of Document: Rs. 30 [for the first 50 pages and Rs. 10 for every 10 subsequent pages or parts thereof (documents refers to the set of papers, which get printed in one command at any stage of processing)] (ii) Query Printing: Rs. 10 (iii) Amendments fee to Bill of....
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....t, deletion, supplement). b. When Consol manifest is filed In both the cases, the IGM line information is substantially altered. Further, there are cases of amendment to consol manifest too, 2.3 For amendment of IGM and Consol manifest at the Gateway Port, System level approval by Customs Officer is required. Hence the following procedures are followed for IGM/ Consol amendment. (i) IGM/Consol amendments applied before grant of Entry Inwards in System do not require Assistant Commissioner (Import)'s approval and the same can be carried out. (ii) All such amendments made after grant of Entry Inwards will require Assistant Commissioner (Import)'s approval. (iii) IGM messages to custodians would be sent at the time of grant of entry inwards instead at the time of online submission, so that substantially complete IGM is sent to custodian. (iv) Since the IGM messages based on the TP approval messages are sent from Gateway Port to ICDs, the filing of Consol Manifest and IGM amendment for the Transhipment cargo to ICDs should be carried out at. Kollam Port. Separate filing of consol manifest and amendment of IGM at IC....
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....owing procedure is laid down to handle the movement of empty Containers through ICES: a. Empty Containers Movement shall be processed in the same way as the cargo containers moving to CFS/ICDs. These containers are to be compulsorily declared in the IGM. b. All the Empty containers shall be cleared through the Empty Container Yards (ECY). Shipping Agent/MLO shall apply for such movement in the IGM itself, just like CFS cargo. The only difference is that, instead of CFS Code, the ECY Code (Empty Container Yard Code) shall be specified in the IGM. c. All Empty Container yards will have a common code <Port_Code> AO. In the case of Kollam Port the code for Empty container Yard is INKUK1A0. In due course of time, however, separate codes for different ECY (like AO, Al, A2.... Z7, Z8, Z9) may be allotted to identify individual yard. d. The Container Bond shall be debited before the approval of movement order for the empty containers is granted by ICES at the time of grant of entry inwards. Hence, filing of separate "Vessel wise Application" is not required. e. The approval order shall be similar to the approval of Container Movement to CFS. Sam....
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....ted from the bond and Bank Guarantee limits would be credited back into respective accounts. This arrangement is made to reduce the Bank Guarantee amount required to be executed by the transhippers and at the same time to safeguard the revenue interest. 7.6 The transshipment movement of the container will take place automatically at the time of inward entry for the vessel carried out in the systems after debiting necessary bonds. As soon as the container reaches the destination ICD, the concerned transhippers should submit landing certificate to CMFC, Kollam Port for getting the bond value/Bank Guarantee amount credited to their respective account. 7.7 The request for permission of transshipment shall be scrutinized, processed and issued by an officer in the rank of Superintendent of Customs at Kollam Port. The Shipping Agents should also submit an authorization from the carriers appointed for transportation of goods from Kollam to other ports/ICDs. 7.8 In respect of containers to be transshipped from Kollam Port to ICDs, the first copy of the transshipment approval order will be retained by Customs itself for office record. The transshipper shall produce....
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....tes from the ICD action should be taken to enforce the bond, as the case may be. 8. TRANSHIPMENT OF CONTAINERS FROM KOLLAM PORT TO CFSs The request for permission of transshipment of cargo from Kollam Port to CFSs will be processed and issued by the common cell called the Container Movement Facilitation Cell (CMFC) which will be operational from Kollam Port. 8.1 The Container Freight Stations (CFSs) /MLOs / CHAs / Importers (transhippers) dealing with the movement of cargo from Kollam Port to CFSs shall execute a running bond with Bank Guarantee (15% of bond value) covering the value of the cargo likely to be handled at any given point of time and this will be executed for a period of 12 months with the Dy. / Asst. Commissioners (CMFC) at Kollam Port, if it not possible to furnish a running bond the transhippers may execute individual bond with bank guarantee. 8.2 With reference to execution of Bond / Bank Guarantee, the transhippers (parties) may execute bond and Bank Guarantee taking the following factors into consideration: i) the average value of cargo per container transshipped by them in past. ii) The time taken for producing the land....
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....he seals and the time of the receipt of the container in the CFS in all the copies. When the container physically arrives at the CFS gate, the Preventive Officer/ Inspector (CFS Gate) will enter the details in the ICES System. Thereafter, the System automatically recredits the transit bond (TR Bond), which had earlier been debited. If any of the seals on the container is not intact or found to be tampered, or the container reaches the concerned CFS beyond the normal time the Preventive Officer / Inspector (CFS) should not allow the unloading of the container and bring the discrepancy to the notice of the Superintendent / AC/DC (Docks) and Supdt /AC/DC (CMFC). The Steamer Agents / CHAs / CFSs / Importers / MLOs shall be directed to be present there, for necessary further course of action. The Preventive Officer/ Inspector at the CFS will also maintain a register indicating the total number of the containers received with reference to the permission granted by the CMFC and submit a daily report to the Supdt. / DC (CMFC). The third copy of the transhipment application will be retained by the concerned CFS as office record and the concerned Transhippers should produce the remaining two....
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....em. 9.3 The acceptance of cancellation or otherwise of IGM will be confirmed to the custodian as well as to the Shipping Lines electronically if filed through EDI interface or it is communicated as a "printed checkup cancellation message" from the service center and can also be checked up from the enquiry window of the Service Center. Note: - It may be noted that in case of cancellation of IGM, all the Bills of Entry filed against the IGM will get cancelled. 10. Cargo/Goods Declaration The Importer or the Customs Broker, as the case may be, can file electronic Bill of Entry by data entry at the service centre operator or by transmitting the details in specified file format through ICEGATE from his premises. Filing through Service Centre (i) The Customs Broker/Importer should furnish information in 'Annexure C' and present the same to the service centre operator along with copy(ies) of import invoice and packing list. Details of information in Annexure 'C' should be correct, complete and legible. Incorrect and invalid entries may get rejected on entry of data .The Service center shall accept the declarations in Annexure C during the work....
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....l carefully enter the data in the system as is indicated in Annexure 'C'. On completion of entry of data, the system shall assign a Job No. and generate a Check List which is a draft Bill of Entry. The service centre operator shall print a copy of the Check List and hand over the same to the Customs Broker/Importer. The Customs Broker/Importer shall check the correctness of the data entered in the system. If any error is noticed, the error shall be circled in bold ink and correct detail should be written. The corrected check list duly signed by the Customs Broker/Importer should be handed over to the service centre operator for entry of corrected data. The Operator shall make corrections in the corresponding data and hand over the revised checklist to the Customs Broker/Importer for re-confirmation. This process would be repeated till the Customs Broker/Importer signs a clean checklist in token of correctness of the entered data. (ix) The Operator shall submit the authenticated electronic checklist to the system. The system will then generate a B/E. No., which would be endorsed on the printed checklist and returned to the Customs Broker/Importer. The Bill of Entry No. shal....
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....he Bill of Entry. Processing of the Bill of Entry takes place in an automated environment and workflow according to the jurisdiction of Customs Officers as provided under the law. (ii) In general, the Appraising work is divided in to Appraising Groups and sub groups, based on the Chapter/Tariff Headings of Customs Tariff Schedule. The roles of the officers for Appraising Groups are allotted by the Systems Manager on the basis of workload of assessment. More than one role of appraising groups can be allotted to one officer (more than one group can be allotted to one officer). Based on total assessable value of the individual items in a Bill of Entry, the Bill of Entry on its submission is automatically assigned by the system to a particular Appraising Group of which the assessable value is the highest. All the Bills of Entry assigned to a particular Appraising Group are put in a queue and are processed on "First Come First Serve" basis. In a specific case, only the AC/DC of concerned Appraising Group are authorised to change priority, if circumstances so warrant. (iii) Group 7 has been created for handling assessment of goods under Export Promotion Schemes requirin....
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....correctly claimed, change unit price of goods in the system. In case the Assessing officer and AC/DC, as the case may be, agrees ab-initio or on receipt of the reply, with the claim made by the importer, they shall assess the Bill of Entry in the system. After assessing the Bill of Entry, the system will generate one assessed copy of Bill of Entry. The Customs Broker/Importer shall take print of the assessed copy of B/E along with three copies of TR-6 challan. Before presenting the Bill of Entry for examination and delivery of goods, the Customs Broker/Importer should deposit duty assessed with the designated bank. 12.3 First Check Appraisement (i) Where the Customs Broker/Importer has opted for First check assessment or the Assessing Officer feels it necessary to examine the goods prior to assessment, he shall order first check examination of goods in the system. For seeking first check examination order, the Customs Broker/Importer shall exercise the relevant option at data entry stage, the appropriate column of Annexure C format should be flagged 'Y'. The assessing officer shall accordingly give examination order on the system which shall be approved by the Group ....
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....from service centre or at the premises of the Customs Broker/Importer from where the Bill of Entry has been submitted to the Customs system. 13. Payment of Duty In cases other than e-payment, after the assessment is completed and the print of the assessed Customs copy of the B/E and TR-6 challans are obtained by the Customs Broker/ Importer, copies of the TR-6 challans shall be presented to the designated bank (viz., State Bank of Travnacore , Kollam Main Branch (BSR code 0150054 /963007 ) , for payment of duty. The Bank shall verify the particulars in the TR-6 challans from the system and enter the particulars of receipt of amount in the system and return two copies of challan duly stamped and signed, to the Customs Broker/Importer. The bank will retain one copy. The Challan shall also indicate the interest amount for seven days period after the expiry of interest free period. If interest free period of two days has expired, fresh challan with revised amount of interest should be obtained and should be paid accordingly. 13.1 Duty and Interest can also be paid through e - banking system. Detailed procedure and Demo for e-payment can be accessed from ICEGATE website u....
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....t Shed for confirming green channel and waiving examination of goods. The Bill of Entry in such case shall move to the Import Shed Superintendent for out of charge order. 14.3 All the above documents, except original Licence, will be retained by the Customs at the time of giving 'out of charge'. Hence, only the certified photo copies of Delivery Order, Master Bill of Lading, House Bill of Lading should be attached instead of originals. 14.4 On the basis of the examination report, the Appraising Group may revise the assessment or raise a further query to the importers, if necessary. 14.5 After completion of the examination of the goods, if the Shed Superintendent is satisfied that the requirement of Section 47 of the Custom Act, 1962 have been complied with, he shall give 'Out of Charge" for the Bill of Entry on system. 14.6 After the out of charge order, the system will generate print of Importer's copy and Exchange Control copy of the Bill of Entry along with 3 copies of Order of Clearance. Print of the same shall be obtained from the designated computer terminal. The print copies of the Bill of Entry shall bear the Order of Clearance number and....
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.... be entered into the system by the operator of the service center. Only after acceptance by the group Superintendent and AC/DC, the amendment will get incorporated in the Bill of Entry. After amendment, the Bill of Entry shall be assessed as usual. If the duty was paid prior to amendment, a differential duty challan will be printed along with the revised assessed Bill of Entry. 16.2 After Out of Charge Order, no amendment shall be allowed in the Bill of Entry. However, in case amendment is warranted after Out of Charge Order but before delivery of goods, the System Manager can cancel the out of charge Order in the system. The original prints of the Importer's copies and Exchange Control copies of the Bill of Entry shall be retained by the System Manager in a file. After fresh Out of Charge Order, new prints of the copies of Bill of Entry shall be given. 17. Re-assessment Any time after assessment and before Out of Charge Order, a Bill of Entry can be recalled and reassessed and put to reassessment by the AC/DC concerned, if it so warranted for any reason. 18. Advance Noting Advance B/E can also be filed in the ICES before the arrival of the vessel. In such case....
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...., the officer designated by Asst./ Dy. Commissioner shall make an endorsement on the reverse of the DEPB and the list of Shipping Bills attached with the DEPB to the effect that the verification of all the Shipping Bills is satisfactorily done and put his signature with date and official stamp. 19.3 Registration of DEPB (i) Before claiming exemption under DEPB Exemption Notification 034/97-Cus., dated 7.04.1997 against a DEPB, the licence in question is required to be registered in the import system. The officer designated by the Asst./Dy. Commissioner to register the DEPB in the system shall ensure that verification of DEPB with reference to the exports on the basis of which DEPB is issued by DGFT has been done prior to its registration in imports. (ii) All importers/CHAs are advised to ensure that their IEC details with PAN have been transmitted by DGFT to the Customs at the time of obtaining the DEPB. The Customs Broker/Importer shall furnish details of DEPB licence in the pro-forma given as ANNEXURE A. (iii) The designated officer shall make data entry of the DEPB details in the system. After entry of data, a checklist will be printed. The DE....
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....B holder DUTY CREDIT AMOUNT transferred Export FOB amount transferred Invoice No MAWB/BL No./DT HAWB/HBL No./DT. Conditions, if any (iii) If the DEPB is already registered in the System and having sufficient balance in the Duty Credit and Export FOB value is available, the System will print a check list of TRA. The check list shall be verified by the DEPB holder. If the particulars are correct the check list will be signed by the DEPB holder and returned to the proper officer who will exercise the option for issue of TRA in the System. The System shall generate three copies of the Release Advice titled as: 1. Customs copy for port of issue (office copy), 2. Customs copy for port of clearance and 3. Importer's copy. (iv) The office copy for port of issue shall be retained by the TRA issuing Customs Station and placed in the respective TRA file. Customs copy fortheport of clearance will be dispatched to the respective Customs Station and the importers copy of TRA shall be handed over to the applicant. (v) The requirement of production of original DEPB licence with incoming or outgoing T....
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....e printed as usual and given to the Importers/Customs Brokers for verifying the correctness of data captured. For identification against the respective item, '(DEPB)' and Notification 034/97 will appear. At the end of the check list, a statement of debits of EXPORT FOB (= import CIF) and duty sought to be debited, DEPB wise against an item S. No. of an invoice, will also be printed. The importers/ Customs Brokers should check the details of DEPB No. carefully to ensure that only that DEPB would be debited which he intended to do so. If the entries are correct, the checklist may be returned to the data entry operator for submission of B/E in the System. Errors, if any, noticed may be got corrected by the data entry operator. 19.8 Submission of B/E On submission of the B/E in the System, an UN-ASSESSED copy of the B/E will be printed by the System containing statement of debit of DEPB for export FOB and duty amount in respect of each item of an invoice for which exemption is claimed against DEPB. 19.9 Assessment of B/E (i) The un-assessed copy of the B/E along with all the original import documents and all the DEPB licence/scripts in original indic....
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....nt to be debited against each DEPB should be indicated by the importers. The duty amount will be proportionately calculated by the System for debit in the DEPB. The importers, therefore, should ensure that sufficient balance in the duty credit amount and export FOB is available in the DEPB to cover amounts of both components, for debiting, failing which the system will not accept the declaration for the B/E. In case the importer desires to utilize the DEPB for part of the quantity of an item in the invoice, he may split the quantity of that item and prepare the declaration accordingly. 19.11 Debiting of DEPB against Manual B/E (i) If a Bill of Entry is processed manually, importers may choose to avail the exemption under the DEPB Scheme and get the DEPB debited for exempted amount of duty. In such cases, manual B/E will be assessed as usual. After assessment, the amount of duty forgone due to exemption under DEPB and the CIF of goods imported being cleared against DEPB will be computed manually in respect of each DEPB scrip. (ii) The designated officer in the assessing group will debit the original DEPB. He will also enter the amount of duty foregone and ....
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....ders, therefore, should check these details in their licences and ensure that the same are correct before presenting the licence for registration. The licences with incorrect details will be rejected by the system and cannot be used for availing exemption from duty and clearance of goods. Such licences should be corrected from the concerned DGFT office before presenting to Customs. (ii) In pursuance of CBEC's Circular No. 11/2007 dated 13th February, 2007 and Circular No. 3/2009 dated 20th January, 2009 issued from F. No. 605/210/2005-DBK and F. No. 605/70/2008-DBK respectively, a procedure for online transmission of Shipping Bills and Licenses/Authorizations issued under Duty Entitlement Pass book Scheme (DEPB), Duty Exemption Scheme (DES) and Export Promotion Capital Goods Scheme (EPCG) from DGFT to Customs and vice versa through an Electronic Message Exchange System is in operation at all EDI Ports/ICES locations. (iii) The licences, which have already been partially utilized, will be registered in the system only for the balances available. (iv) After successful entry of details, a check list will be printed by the registration clerk and given to the ....
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....e /TRA along with the original documents to the proper officer. The officer will compare the details entered in the system with the original licence /TRA. After satisfying himself with its correctness, Officer will submit the licence in the system on the basis of the job number of the check list. The system will generate a licence Registration. No. This registration number and date should be endorsed in bold on the original licence/TRA. After registration, the documents may be returned to the Importer and copies thereof may be kept in the office file for record. TRA will be registered only on the basis of Customs copy of the TRA. After registration, Customs copy and importer's copy of TRA will be defaced by the Officer. 20.5 Issuing TRAs Transfer Release Advice will be issued for utilization of a licence at any other Customs station. No TRA needs to be issued for Customs location operating of ICES Version 1.5. TRA shall be issued only for non-ICES location. All TRAs against the licences registered in the system shall only be generated from system. Details for obtaining Release Advice shall be furnished in the Format given at Annexure-'D'. Data entry will ....
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....ance available in the licence, amendments for reduction of value and quantity will not be permitted by the system. The system will give credit to quantity or value in the case of increase and will debit the quantity or value in the case of reduction. Therefore, only incremental or decremental quantity or value should be entered in respect of increase or reduction. Licence status code at the time of registration will be '0'. The licence, if suspended or cancelled after registration, the officer shall amend the status code to '2', '3' and '4' for cancellation, suspension and re-instatement respectively. 20.9 Filing of Bill of Entry (i) Licence Regn. No., Regn. Date details, value and the quantity should be furnished in respective column at S. No. 39.E of the Annexure 'C'. (ii) Unit of measurement of qty. will be the same as per the licence. In case the unit of measurement in the invoice is different than the one in the license, for the purpose of debit in the licence the qty should be converted in to same unit of measurement as in the licence. For spare parts against EPCG licence, S. No. of item will be '0' therefore, for availing benefits of exemption noti....
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....ny amendments made in the licences/ Schemes, subsequent to registration of licence, have also been entered in the system. If the Assessing officer is satisfied about the eligibility of exemption under related notification and the licence is otherwise valid to cover the goods in question, he may assess the B/E on system. The Assessing officer can remove the notification and deny the benefits of exemption. The debits of licence will automatically reverse when exemption notification is denied. The procedure of assessment will be similar to DEPB imports. (iv) In respect of a manually assessed Bill of Entry, details of value and quantity will be debited in the system by the Superintendent at the time of assessing a B/E & a print of details of debit will be taken for records. 20.11 Printing of the Assessed B/E After assessment, the printout of assessed copy of the B/E will be taken by the Importer/Customs Broker from service center. The printout of B/E will contain duty-paying challan if duty is payable and statement of debit of licence for value/ qty and debit of Bond for duty foregone in respect of each item. The figures of these debits should be endorsed on the hard ....
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....ts by 100% EOU indicate: - "Y" for Bond No.......... if Bond is already executed with Customs at the point of import; `C' C.Ex. Certificate No............ Dt........." where the Bond is executed with Central Excise authorities; and a procurement certificate has been issued by them and 'N' where neither Bond is executed nor Central Excise Certificate is obtained before presenting the Bill of Entry. Where the option given is 'N', the system shall require the Bond to be executed after assessment but before registration of B/E for examination & out of charge. Procedure for registration of Bond/B.G. has been separately indicated in this Public Notice. The importer should indicate in the format, the type of Bond as "EO" for 100% EOUs and indicate details of the Bond No. or the Central Excise certificate, as the case may be. If Bond or Central Excise Certificate are not indicated it would be 'N', i.e. NONE. The data entry operator shall enter the related option 'Y' or 'C' and enter the details of the Bond or the certificate, as the case may be, in the respective field in the system. (iii) In the field of claim of assessment, normal details shall be indicated. However, in the fiel....
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....ount in the field of BG should be entered as 0 (Zero).The Superintendent has the option of removing EOU notification where the importer is not found to be eligible for the exemption. (iii) Where the importer has not furnished Bond or central excise certificate, the system will require the assessing officer to specify the Bond amount / BG amount. The Superintendent shall specify the Bond & Bank Guarantee amount in system. After processing by the Superintendent, the B/E will be audited by the Auditor and thereafter processed by the AC/DC. After the assessment, print of the Bill of Entry can be obtained. The details of the Bond / BG shall be printed on the Bill of Entry where neither Bond is debited nor is a central excise certificate indicated, the system will print the Bond / BG requirements as specified by the Superintendent. (iv) In case the importer has executed the Bond with the central excise authorities, he shall produce the procurement certificate issued by the central excise officer to the assessing officer along with the un-assessed copy of the Bill of Entry. Assessment of the Bill of Entry would be done after due verification of all the concerned document....
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....o a change. Type of Bill of Entry (H) For Home Consumption (W) For Warehousing (X) For Ex-Bond: Warehouse B/E No ----,DT--- and Warehouse Code (i) Warehouse Code consists of 4-digit location code; 1-digit warehouse type; and 3-digit serial number of warehouse, e.g. WFD61001. If no code is assigned 'other' to be used as code - WFD6O001). INVOICE PARTICULARS For Ex-Bond B/E No---------Invoice S.No.----------- in Ware house B/E item of Import intended to be Ex-Bonded Item Quantity of item intended for ex-Bond S.No. in invoice (ii) On out of charge of a Warehouse B/E, the system will create a ledger of quantity in respect of all the items included in Warehousing B/E. For the purpose of filing Ex-Bond B/E in the system, details of Customs Broker& the Importer will be entered as usual. In the field of Type of B/E 'X' will enable for entry of Ex-Bond B/E. A window will pop up for Warehouse B/E No. & date. On entry of Warehousing B/E No & date, the system will capture all the other details from the Warehousing Bill of Entry. Invoice S.No. as in the Warehousing B/E and against this i....
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.... of Charge of the Ex-Bond B/E. The Superintendent shall verify that:- a) The particulars in the Ex-Bond B/E correspond to the Bond register maintained in the Bond Section; b) The goods are being cleared within the validity period of the Bond, interest, if any, on the Warehoused goods as chargeable under Section 61of the Custom Act, 1962 as per the rates specified under Section 47(2) of the Act ibid and/or any charges including fine/penalty payable, as provided under Chapter IX of the Customs Act, 1962 have been paid; c) The rate of duty has not undergone any change after assessment and the out of charge. In case any change has taken place after assessment in the tariff or exemption structure having bearing on assessment, the B/E will be referred to the concerned Superintendent for reconfirming the correctness of the assessment. The Superintendent will re-assess the B/E, if so required. The system after re-assessment will generate duty challan for differential amount which will be printed at the service center and duty will be paid at the designated bank. d) After satisfying the requirements relating to clearance of the goods, the Superintendent w....
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.... that category in respect of each notification separately. The Bond registered for one notification cannot be utilized for another notification. Bond Codes for the types Bond are as under Bond type Bond code End use Bond EU Undertaking UT Re-export Bond RE 25. Certificates from various Authorities 25.1 Certificate from CEX Authorities (i) Where the exemption notification provides for production of a certificate from the jurisdictional Central Excise authorities in terms of the Customs (Import of Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty for Manufacture of Excisable Goods) Rules, 1996, the same should also be registered in the system. For this purpose, the certificate obtained from the central excise office shall be produced to the Superintendent, before filing the B/E. The Superintendent shall register the same in the system in the same manner as the....
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....t, 1975 is chargeable on the basis of value or weight in Kgs. or area in SQM of the textile fabrics covered under the said subheadings and the duty chargeable will be the highest among the duties so determined on the basis of above mentioned three parameters. It is therefore, necessary to capture qty. in Kgs. and also the qty. in SQM in addition to the value of such goods. Provision has been made in the system to enter qty in Kgs. and qty in SQM in respect of above sub-headings. The system will calculate duty on value, on Kgs. & on SQM and will determine the highest among the three amounts. The highest amount will be taken for levy of duty. 40 B.1of Annexure C may be filled up accordingly. (ii) In case quantity of goods in the invoice is in Kgs. as declared in Table 'A' under 'Details of Description of Items', col. (3) in the table B1 of Annexure C should be left blank and indicate only qty in SQM in col. (4) above. Similarly, if the invoice qty. is SQM then indicate only qty. in Kgs. in col. (3) and col. (4) be left blank. (iii) However, if the qty. in the invoice is in units of measurement other than Kgs. or SQM, in that case the qty. in Kgs. and SQM should be i....
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....ial No. (as given by the party ) 2. Surety Name 3. Address 4. Identification particulars of surety (Customs Broker code, Chartered Accountant Registration No. etc.) 5. Remarks Cash Deposit 1. Challan No. 2. Date 3. Amount 4. Date of Deposit (ii) The Bond detail shall be entered in the Bond Section. On entry, system will assign a job no. and check list is generated. The Importer / Customs Broker shall satisfy himself with the correctness of the details. The corrections, if any, shall be made and job shall be submitted. After submission, the job shall be forwarded to designated AC/DC to accept the Bond. The importer shall present the original Bond documents to the respective designated AC / DC for acceptance. (iii) The AC/DC shall observe all the instructions regarding acceptance of Bond issued by the Board / Commissionerate from time to time after satisfying that the documents submitted are in order & acceptable. The AC/DC shall retrieve the Bond details on screen by entering the job no., view the entries made in the system. If the information in the system match with the documents & c....
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....ssed provisionally, the Bond (Provisional or Test) is mandatory. The Superintendent /Assessing Officer has to specify Type of Bond, Bond Amount, BG %, BG amount, basis for Bond amount at the BE level. AC/DC has to confirm the action of Superintendent /Assessing Officer. Auditor has no option w.r.t. Bonds. However, he can view the Bonds requirements. (iv) Bond Requirement Details On completion of assessment, the Bond requirement details will be printed on the Assessed Copy of the BE. Where the Bond has not been executed before assessment, on completion of assessment and payment of duty (wherever required), the importer is required to execute the Bond in respect of the Bill of Entry in question before goods registration in the Shed. If the Bond has not been executed against the Bill of Entry, the goods registration cannot be done. The Importer has to give a written request to AC/DC for debiting the Bond against a B/E. The importer shall specify the Bond Registration No., B/E No. and Date. The AC (Bond) has to retrieve the Bond and debit the Bond and BG. AC/DC Bond has the option to view the B/E. Before debiting, the system will pose the query "Whether the language o....
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....n this behalf. The procedure for processing of such Bills of Entry is briefly indicated below:- (vi) Warehousing Bill of Entry (a) For Warehousing Bill of Entry, the type of Bill of Entry should be indicated as 'W'. The importer may indicate the Bond details if a continuity Bond has already been executed in the same manner as has been explained in respect of 100% EOU. The processing of warehousing Bill of Entry shall continue to be as at present in the respective groups on first come first serve basis. (b) The system at the time of assessment of a Warehousing B/E shall display before the Superintendent, the requirement of Bond equal to double the amount of duty payable. The Superintendent at the time of the assessment can change the Bond/BG amounts. Where the Bond details have been entered at the time of data entry, the same shall be displayed by the system & debit details will be printed on the Bill of Entry. Where Bond has not been debited at the time of data entry of B/E, Bond requirement shall be on the Bill of Entry. (c) The Bond shall be registered with the designated Bond Officer and debited in respect of a B/E. Unless the Bond is....
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....If the goods have been purchased on High Seas Sales basis, option `Y' should be indicated at S.No 5C in the format. The IEC & Branch code of the original importers, i.e., Seller of goods on high seas, should be indicated. In the field of invoice details after the field of currency, new fields for indicating the costs incurred over and above the invoice value for purchasing goods on high sea sale have been added. Where such expenses are incurred, (whether actually paid or payable) as a percentage of invoice value, the percentage rate should be indicated in the field "Rate". Where a fixed amount is paid or payable over the invoice value such amount should be indicated against the field 'amount' and shall be in Indian Rupees. The additional amount would get distributed proportionately amongst the various items in the invoice for determination of assessable value. In case goods relate to more than one invoices, the High Seas sales charges should be indicated against each invoice, proportionate to the value of goods in the invoice. The system shall add these charges to the CIF value of the goods for computation of assessable value for the purpose of levy of duty. (iii) The data....
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....ey would be having three separate retail prices. Each article, which has different characters, specification including the difference in size of packing should be declared as separate items in the Bill of Entry with a separate unit retail sale price. (iv) The retail sale price would have to be indicated in Rupees and not in any foreign currency and should conform to the provisions of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 which came into effect from 01.04.2011,the Rules made there under or any other law in this behalf. Quantum of abatement need not be declared since the system would apply the said reduction with reference to the Central Excise Tariff Heading. Details of such items for which Retail Sale Price has been declared may be carefully verified by the Importers/Customs Brokers before handing over the check list to the Service Centre Operator for submission of the Bill of Entry. It may also be ensured that all the articles covered in the invoice are carefully checked and Retail Sale Price declared in respect of all such articles, which require declaration of Retail Sale Price. Provision has also been made for amendment of declared Retail Sale Price at different stages subject....
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....le at 'www.cbec.gov.in' and 'www.icegate.gov.in' websites. The directory can be downloaded from the said websites for reference. (ii) Filing of Bill Of Entry The importer would be required to declare the Anti-dumping notification, and Serial No. of producer/exporter against the country of origin/export. These details may be declared in Col.(3) of the Table 39B (Classification Details) of Appendix-A the Format for Declaration at Service Centre for Data Entry. The extract of the Table is indicated below. 39B. Classification Details (1) Invoice Serial Number (2) Actual Invoice Number (3) Classification Details Item No. RITC 8 digit CTH A D Notfn IS No PS No QTY Exemp. NotfYr Sl No. CTH Notf n. Sl No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Abbreviations in Col. (3) above refer as under. AD Notfn. = Anti-dumping notification number/year I S No. = Item S.No. in the notification PS No.= Producer/exporterS.No. against the respective country QTY = Quantity of goods in the units of measurement on which anti-dumping rate has been fixed, if different from qu....
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.... Bill of Entry The tariff value is itself the assessable value, therefore, invoice value will be ignored by the system and the duty would be calculated on the basis of tariff value. If the Tariff value is in any foreign currency, the same would be converted into Indian rupees on the basis of exchange rate applicable to that currency as applicable on the date of filing of the Bill of Entry. For the purpose of computation of value for additional duty under section 3(2) of Customs Tariff Act, 1975, the Basic Customs Duty and the assessable value based on tariff value shall be added. In case the importer has not declared the Tariff value, the Superintendent at the time of assessment will get a systems alert for tariff value. The Superintendent will have the option to select the tariff value and also change the S.No. of the Tariff value if incorrectly declared by the importers. The rate of Tariff value will be printed on the check list as well as on the copies of Bill of Entry. 35. Levy of Addl. Duty For Non-Excisable Goods In respect of goods not leviable to Central Excise Duty under the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 but liable to Excise Duties under other Central Acts (such....
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....cally. Before filing the Shipping Bills, the exporters are advised to check from the DGFT, as to whether their IE Code has already been transmitted to ICES. If their IE Code has not been transmitted to ICES by the DGFT, they should first get the same transmitted from the DGFT, failing which the exporter shall not be able to file the Shipping Bills for export. (DGFT's website may be accessed at http://www.dgft.delhi.nic.in) 3.2 Registration of Custom House Agents (Customs Broker) in ICES: Every Customs Broker is required to register his details in ICES for enabling him to submit documents in the system. In case the Custom House from where the Customs Broker has been licensed is not an existing EDI location in ICES 1.0, such Customs Broker should immediately get themselves registered at any of the Customs locations as per list enclosed at Appendix 1. The format for registration is at Appendix 2. 3.3 Registration of Shipping lines/Agents, Consol Agents: EGM shall be filed electronically by the Shipping Lines/Agents at the Gateway Ports. Before filing EGM, the Shipping Lines/Agents should register themselves in the ICES at any of the Custom Stations where ICES 1.0 is ....
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....s in respect of various schemes, the list of which is appended with this Public Notice. An appropriate Code should be indicated against each item in the Shipping Bill. For example, if exports are under claim of Drawback, Code19 should be used. Appendix.7 3.8 Units of Measurement Codes: Against any quantity of goods, the appropriate Code indicated against the respective measurement in the list appended with this Public Notice must be used in the Shipping Bill / EGM as the case may be. Reference is also invited to the CBEC Circular no. 26/2013-Customs, dated 19/07/2013, where adherence to Standard Unit Quantity Codes, as prescribed in the Customs Tariff Act, has been prescribed. Appendix. 5 3.9 Currency Codes: For indicating value of goods, freight, insurance, commission, etc., only the relevant codes for the respective currencies in the list of currency codes appended with this Public Notice have to be used. Use of any incorrect code will result in incorrect conversion of the currency into Indian Rupees. Appendix 4. 3.10 Country Codes: Wherever in the Shipping Bill / EGM, reference is required to be made to the name of the country, the appropriate Code of ....
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.... be signed by the exporter or his authorized representative/Customs Broker. Forms, which are incomplete or unsigned, will not be accepted for data entry. Exporters/Customs Broker should ensure that the data provided by them and entered by service center is correct in all respects so that process of clearance of export is smooth. 4.3 Data entry of Shipping Bills would be done at the Service Centres on payment of charges. Various charges for printing and data entry excluding Service Tax are given in para 1.11- (Imports) above which shall be subject to revision from time to time. 4.4 The Service Centre operators shall carefully enter the data on the basis of declarations (Duly filled forms of Annexure A) made by the Customs Broker / Exporters. After completion of data entry, a checklist of the data entered by the operator will be printed by the Data Entry Operator and handed over to the Exporters/Customs Broker for confirming the correctness of the electronic declaration. The Customs Broker/Exporter will make corrections, if any, in the checklist and return the same to the operator duly signed. The operator shall make the corresponding corrections in the data and sha....
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....e, a certificate would have to be obtained from each of the banks. The certificate(s) would be submitted to Customs and registered in the system as mentioned above. These would have to be submitted once a year for confirmation or whenever there is change of bank. 5.3 In the declaration form (Annexure A-Export) to be filed by the exporters for the electronic processing of export documents, the exporters would need to mention the name of the bank and the branch code as mentioned in the certificate from the bank. The Customs will verify the details in the declaration with the information captured in the system through the certificates registered earlier. 6. ARRIVAL OF GOODS AT EXPORT EXAMINATION SHEDS IN PORT. 6.1 In respect of goods intended to be exported against an electronic Shipping Bill, the Kollam Port will permit entry of the goods on the strength of the checklist. 6.2 If at any stage subsequent to the entry of goods at Kollam Port, it is noticed that the declaration has not been registered in the system, the Exporters and Customs Brokers will be responsible for the delay in shipment of goods and any damage, deterioration or pilferage, without pre....
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.... be carrying out physical examination of goods. The system would also indicate the packages (the quantity and the serial numbers) to be subjected to examination. The Officer would write this information (Name of examination officer and package Sl. Nos to be examined) on the checklist and hand it over to the exporter. He would hand over the original documents to the Examining Officer. No examination orders shall be given unless the goods have been physically received in the Export Shed. It may, however, be clarified that Customs Officers have the discretion of examining any or all the packages/goods. 8.3 The Examining Officer / Inspector may inspect and/or examine the shipment, as per instructions contained in the checklist and enter the examination report in the system. There will be no written examination report. He will then mark the Electronic S/B and forward the checklist along with the original documents to the Superintendent in charge. If the Superintendent is satisfied that the particulars entered in the system conform to the description given in the original documents and the physical examination, he will proceed to give "Let Export" order for the shipment and info....
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....ect of containers sealed in the factory after examination by the Customs / C. Excise officers, there will normally be no further examination at the ICD. 10. GENERATION OF SHIPPING BILLS 10.1 As soon as the Shed Superintendent gives "Let Export" order, the system would print 6 copies of the Shipping Bills in case of Free and scheme Shipping Bills. All copies of the Shipping Bill would be duly signed by the Shed Superintendent. The examination report would be signed by the Shed Superintendent, Examination Officer as well as exporter / representative of the Customs Broker (Name and ID Card number of the representative of the Customs Broker should be clearly mentioned below his signature). 10.2 Any other certificates required for permitting export will be retained by Customs along with the Shipping Bills. 11. PAYMENT OF MERCHANT OVERTIME (MOT) 11.1 The present manual system for payment of Merchant Overtime (MOT) charges will continue. 11.2 MOT charges will be required to be paid by exporter when the goods are examined by Customs for allowing "Let Export" beyond the normal office hours. No charges would be required to be paid on normal working d....
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....endments will be carried out in the following manner. 1. If the goods have not yet been allowed "Let Export", Assistant Commissioner/Deputy Commissioner may allow the amendment. 2. Where the "Let Export" order has been given, the Additional/Joint Commissioner (Exports) would allow the amendments. 14.2 In both the cases, after the permission for amendments has been granted, the Assistant Commissioner (Exports) will approve the amendments on the system. Where the print out of the S/ B has already been generated, the exporter will surrender all copies of the Shipping Bill to the Superintendent for cancellation before amendment is approved in the system. 15. SHORT SHIPMENTS, SHUT OUT, CANCELLATION AND BACK TO TOWN PERMISSIONS 15.1 AC/DC (Export) will give permission for issue of short shipment certificate, shut out or cancellation of S/B, on the basis of an application made by the exporter. The S/B particulars would need to be cancelled / modified in the system before granting such permission. AC/DC would check the status of the goods, before granting permission. 16. AMENDMENT OF FREIGHT AMOUNT 16.1 If the freight/insurance amount unde....
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....e declarationform. 20.3 The exporters are also required to give their account number along with the details of the Authorized Dealer bank through which the export proceeds are to be realized. 20.4 As indicated earlier Export declarations involving a drawback amount of more than Rupees One lakh will be processed on the system by the AC/DC before the goods can be brought for examination and for allowing "Let Export". 20.5 The drawback claims are sanctioned subject to the provisions of the Customs Act 1962, the Customs and Central Excise Duties Drawback Rules 1995 and conditions prescribed under different sub-headings of the All Industry rates as per notified by the Ministry of Finance from time to time. 20.6 After actual export of the goods, the drawback claims will be processed in the EDI system by the officers of Drawback Branch on "First Come First Served" basis. There is no need for filing separate drawback claim. The claims will be processed based on the Truck/Train Summary. The status of the Shipping Bill and sanction of drawback claim can be ascertained from the "Enquiry Counter" set up at the Service Centre or remote system though ICEGATE. ....
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....f the IFS code and bank account number of the exporter and a copy of the same shall also be submitted to the authorized bank branch at the EDI location. c) Whenever there is a change in the exporter's bank account number the same procedure is required to be followed by the exporter for fresh registration of new bank account number. d) State Bank of Travancore , Kollam Main Branch ( BSR Code 0150054/963007 ) is authorized for disbursement of drawback amount online. 20.9 Supplementary Drawback Claims: If the drawback amount initially paid is less then entitlement the exporter can file application for supplementary claim for additional amount. For such claims after approval of sanction of supplementary claim on file by the AC/DC Drawback, the Superintendent (DBK) shall process claim online and submit it for approval by AC/DC (DBK). After sanction of drawback against supplementary claim, Drawback Scroll shall be generated by system and amount transferred to the bank in the same manner as normal in scroll. 21. EXPORT OF GOODS UNDER 100% EOU SCHEME 21.1 The Exporters can get the export goods examined by Central Excise / Customs Officer at the factor....
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....of licenses under DES and EPCG scheme. The licenses under above mentioned schemes issued by DGFT would be received online by Customs. Such licenses would be subjected to the prescribed online validation checks at ICEGATE and thereafter, the same would be available for use by the exporters at the port of registration for imports. Details of such licenses would also be available on the home page of websitewww.icegate.gov.in. As mentioned above, exports under DES can be started immediately after receipt of file number message from DGFT by quoting the relevant File Number allocated by DGFT on the export documents. After issuance of licenses, exporters would be required to quote the relevant license number on the export documents. 22.2 There is no need of registration of file number / license number and obtaining a Customs Registration number at this port. As the licenses issued under DES / EPCG will now be received online from DGFT and would be available at this port, Importers would be required to produce the hard copies of the licenses issued by DGFT along with bonds / LUTs and execute BG in accordance with the provisions of the Customs Circular(s) in force and as per the st....
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.... the Superintendent , who would verify the particulars entered in the computer with the original EPCG/DES and register &verify the same in the EDI system. The Registration No. of the EPCG/DES would be furnished to the Exporter/Customs Broker, which would need to be mentioned on the declaration forms (Annexure D) at this port for export of goods. It would not be necessary thereafter for the Exporter/Customs Broker to produce the original EPCG/DES for processing of the export declarations. 22.7 All the export declarations for EPCG/DES would be processed on the system by the Superintendent, Export Department and the AC/DC Exports. After the declarations have been processed and accepted, the goods can be presented at the Export Shed along with EPCG/DES licences for examination and "Let Export" as in other export goods. All exporters availing of the EPCG/DES facilities are requested to immediately get their EPCG/DES registered in the EDI System so that the export declarations are processed expeditiously. 22.8 Further, exporters availing of EPCG/DES benefits in terms of various notifications should file the relevant declarations in Annexure D (Export) along with Annexur....
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.... declaration to the Assistant Commissioner /Deputy Commissioner (Drawback) providing the details of all Authorized Dealers (AD), their codes and addresses through which they intend to realize the export proceeds. Such a declaration shall be filed at each port of export through which the exporter exports his goods. In case, there is a new addition of AD, the same is to be intimated to the concerned Custom House at the port of Export. b. The system would generate on all Shipping Bills, the due date for submission of BRCs. c. The exporter shall submit a certificate from the Authorized Dealer(s) in respect of whom declaration has been filed containing details of the shipments which remain outstanding beyond the prescribed time limit, including the extended time, if any,allowed by AD/RBI. Such a certificate can also be provided by a Chartered accountant in his capacity as a statutory auditor of the exporter's account. A Performa for furnishing such negative statement was enclosed as Annexure to the Board Circular 5/2009 dated 2.2.2009 (available at www.cbec.gov.in). Further, the exporters also have the option of giving a BRC from the concerned authorized dealer(s). ....
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....eted from the list. k. The BRC entry module also enables the Department to remove the list of S/Bs from the pendency list if drawback is recovered subsequently. In such cases, the officer may choose option (1) and enter the order no./challan no. and date and also the no. and date of all shipping Bills for which the drawback has been realized. Thereafter, all such S/Bs will be deleted from the pendency list. 27.1 The system will indicate to the Assistant Commissioner/Deputy Commissioner (Drawback) all cases of Drawback Shipping Bills if the BRC/negative statement in the prescribed Annexure enclosed to the Board's Circular is not submitted by the exporter within the prescribed period. 28. Movement of export containers from ICD to Kollam Port: The procedure for movement of containers from ICD is as per Board's Circular No. 57/98 - Customs dated 04.08.1998. The relevant portion is reproduced here for ready reference. "7. At the Gateway Ports/ Airports, both the copies of Shipping Bill would be presented by the custodian's representative to the proper officer of Customs who would verify the genuineness of documents and check the marks and numbers of th....
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.... as provided under Central Excise Rules and instructions issued by Board from time to time would be applicable. 11. On receipt of transference copy of Shipping Bill, the necessary credits would be given in continuity bond executed by the custodians for movement of goods." 29. Service tax refund One of pre-requisites for claiming S.T refund electronically through ICES 1.5 is that the exporters should have a bank account and also central excise registration number or service tax code number (including service tax registration number) and the same should be registered with ICES 1.5. Details of the process of registration in ICES 1.5 are being shared for providing clarity to officers and stake holders. 29.1 Registration of Bank Account The S.T Refund Scheme will be similar to drawback scheme. STR amount processed under the ICES will be disbursed through the branch of the authorized bank at each customs location. The STR amount in respect of individual exporters will be credited directly to the bank account of the exporter, in the authorized bank branch at a Custom location or to any core banking enabled banking account of the exporter, in any branch/bank anywhere in the ....
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....tion of bank account and central excise registration number/service tax code number has to be done at each customs location separately. While capturing central excise registration certificate or service tax code number in ICES 1.5, the system will validate the details with details available from Automation of central Excise and service tax (ACES) and only on successful validation, data will be saved in ICES 1.5. It may be added that either central excise registration certificate or PAN based service tax code no. (Including service tax registration number) has to be provided to claim ST Refund through ICES 1.5, in case an Exporter does not have either of two numbers mentioned above, he should be advised to either get the same as per procedure prescribed in notification no. 17/2009 ST dated 7.7.2009 or claim services tax refund from jurisdictional central excise / service tax officer. 29.3 Details of post - registration processing of ST refund in ICES 1.5. Salient features of processing of service tax refund through ICES 1.5 are as follows: a. ST refund through ICES 1.5 shall be claimed by exporter by declaring "Y" in relevant field at the time of filling of shipping B....