Paperless Customs — Electronic Communication of PDF Based Copies of Shipping Bill & e-Gatepass to Custom Brokers/ Exportere

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....ipping Bill & e- Gatepass to Custom Brokers/ Exporters 2. In its continuing endeavor 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 the ease of doing business, while providing enhanced security features for verification of authenticity and validity of the electronic document. 3. With effect from 22.06.2020 only the digital copy of the Shipping Bill bearing the Final LEO would be electroni....

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....rred to in para 4.1.2 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 Broker and exporter, if registered. This electronic Final LEO copy can serve multiple purposes such as being shared with DGI*P, 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 authenticity. Key details like SB No., SB Date, FOB value, Package Details are available in the secu....