Reducing/ eliminating printouts in Customs Clearance

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.... 2. In this regard, Government of India has taken-up a number of initiatives for promoting Ease of doing business'. One of the ways to 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: a. GAR7 forms/TR-6 Challans: On completion of assessment of a Bill of Entry, the ICES generate a challan message, which ....

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....ment permit information is sent electronically to the carrier, the transporter undertaking the transhipment, the custodian of the gateway port, and the ICES system at the destination ICD or Port. Transhipment 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. c. 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) Exporter's copy and (iii) Exchange Contr....