Turant Customs - Automated queuing of Bills of Entry for ‘Out of Charge’

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....siness'. 2. As laid down in para 5 of the above Circular, w.e.f. 20/03/2019, a new functionality has been enabled in ICES 1.5, whereby the Bills of Entry pending for clearance are automatically queued before the proper officer having SUP role for providing Out of Charge (OOC). 3. Prior to launch of Turant Customs, the importer / authorised person / Customs broker was required to present to the proper officer the hard copy of Bill of Entry with examination order for registering the same at RMS Facilitation Centre or CFSs for examination and / or Out of Charge from SUP role. Now, the importer can register on-line into the ICES system for OOC. The new automated queuing feature which will not require the importer / authorised person to physic....

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....om the Service Centre and the BE would return to the same officer after query reply. In certain cases, where both appraiser as well as the shed officer had raised queries on the same BE, the queries by the shed officer have been closed by the System as a onetime measure so that these "stuck" BsE can come in the officer's queue for OOC. This would enable the OOC officer to raise a query on the importer, where required. C. Prioritization of AEO BsE: As is being done in respect of appraising, the BsE filed by AEOs is now being prioritized even for OOC. D. Facilitated BsE marked for examination: For BsE marked to FAC but sent for examination subsequently because of "Suspicious Scan" report, it was reported that after the e....

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.... the system. The importers / Customs brokers are requested to check the scanning status of containers covered in their BE on Scan Status module available at www.dpdjnch.com website or through http://dpdjnch.com/containerScanningStatus.aspx URL (refer JNCH PN No.26/2019 dtd. 14.03.2019 in this regard). They can also check the scanning status of imported containers from any of the CFSs of the JNCH or at the Examiner's counter at RMS Facilitation Centre. Many instances have come to notice where importers or their Customs brokers have submitted written complaints about delay in obtaining OOC under Turant Customs and on checking status it has been found that some containers in their consignment were selected for scanning and they were not aware.....