Turant Customs — Turant Suvidha Kendra and Other Initiatives for Contactless Customs

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....ance processes thereby leading to speedy clearances, transparency in decision making, ease of doing business and very importantly, reduce physical contact in the prevailing pandemic situation. These initiatives include, amongst others, automated clearances of Bills of Entry, digitisation of Customs documents, paperless clearance, Faceless Assessment and establishment of Turant Suvidha Kendra. 2. Continuing with the aforementioned initiatives and with a view to further prepare the ground for applying the reforms pan-India, CBIC has now decided to take certain measures, which are detailed below. 3. Turant Suvidha Kendra in All Customs Formations: 3.1 Circular No.28/2020-Customs, dated provided for setting up Turant Suvidha Kendras (TSK) f....

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....rd, DG Systems, CBIC has enabled w.e.f. 06.07.2020 certain functionalities in ICEGATE which would reduce the need for physical interaction between Customs and trade and also speed up the Customs clearance process. These new functionalities are explained below. 4.1. Registration of Authorised Dealer Code. Bank Accounts through ICEGATE: 4.1.1. Exporters are presently required to register their Authorised Dealer (AD) Code and Bank Account(s) for purposes of remittances and availing export benefits respectively at every Customs station. Even though it is an one-time procedure, it requires physical interaction between the Customs and the trade and submission of physical documents by the latter. Being a manual process, it causes delays impact....

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....f Entry is returned (to the importer) for the payment of duty. On review, it has been decided to do away with this requirement. Instead, ICES would automatically debit the Bond and reflect the same in the first copy of the Bill of Entry, provided the details of the Bond are provided during submission of the Bill of Entry. As has been re-iterated earlier, trade is encouraged to use a continuity bond to avoid procedures related to repeat submission of Bonds. 4.3. Simplified Registration of Importers/Exporters in ICEGATE: 4.3.1. Although simplified Registration module for importers ! exporters based on verification provided in associated GSTIN has been provided without the requirement of digital signature, since many importers / exporters ....