Paperless Customs-Electronic Communication of PDF based Gate pass and OOC Copy of Bill of Entry to Custom Brokers/Importers

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....oms dated 13.04.2020 on the subject of "Paperless Customs-Electronic Communication of PDF based Gate pass and OOC Copy of Bill of Entry to Custom Brokers/Importers". 2. In order to mitigate the unprecedented situation due to Covid-19 pandemic, CBIC has taken a number of measures to facilitate & expedite Customs clearance process making it more and more contact-less i.e. automated and online as well as paper-less. These measures include the facility to clear goods on the basis of an undertaking (not bond), acceptance of electronic Country of Origin certificate etc. These steps complement the earlier reforms unrolled as a part of 'Turant Customs' such as online query module, e Sanchit, web based goods registration, electronic processing of D....

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.... of Bill of Entry: As of now, physical signing of the Final OoC copy of BoE is insisted upon at many Customs locations. This necessitates the importer/Customs Broker to take a paper printout from the Service Centre to be produced before the Customs officer. It has now been decided to do away with the paper printout of the Final OoC copy of BoE. Instead, DG Systems will enable a functionality to immediately email the PDF version of the Final eOoC copy of BoE generated after OoC to the Customs Broker and/or the importer, if registered. This Final eOoC copy of BoE will have the following features- (i) The PDF version will bear a digitally signed and encrypted QR code which can be scanned to verify the authenticity of the document using Mobi....