Paperless Customs — Electronic Communication of PDF

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....direct Taxes & Customs (CBIC) Circular No. 30/2020- Customs dated 22.06.2020, on the above mentioned subject. In its continuing endeavour to promote 'Faceless, Contactless, Paperless Customs' Board has decided to rely upon digital copies of the Shipping Bill and do away with the requirement of taking bulky printouts from the Service Centre or maintenance of voluminous physical dockets in the Custom Houses. This reform will yield immense benefits in terms of saving the time and cost of compliance for the trade, thereby enhancing thy ease of doing business, while providing enhanced security features for verification of authenticity and validity of the electronic document. 2. CBIC has directed that w.e.f. 22.06.2020 only the digital c....

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....perless environment, Board has decided to do away with the taking the printouts referred to in para 3.1.2 above. Instead, Directorate General of Systems has enabled a functionality of communicating by email, the PDF version of the Final LEO copy of the Shipping Bill to the Customs Bröker and exporter, if registered. This electronic Final LEO copy can serve multiple purposes such as being shared with DGFT, Banks etc. This Final LEO copy of the Shipping Bill will have the following features- a. The PDF version will bear a digitally signed and encrypted QR code which can be scanned to verify the authenticity of the document using Mobile App ICETRAK. The QR code is tamper proof, which is digitally signed by CBIC to ensure the authenticit....

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.... Bill to the Customs Broker and the Exporter, if registered. ccordingly, Board has decided to do away with the printing of Transference copies of Shipping Bill. The following are the features of e-Gatepass copy of the Shipping Bill: a. The electronic document provides key summary details like Bags/Packages x`related to logistics movement and facilitates authentic, easy and quick verification by the Custodian, at the point of Entry/Exit. b. There will be two types of QR codes (i) for entire e-Gatepass document, and (ii) for each container/package covered under the e-Gatepass. This will ensure that only those bags/package move out which are covered under the Gatepass document. c. In case of packaged and other bulk cargos, the e-Gatepa....