Customs- Drawbacks – pending due to query reply from exporter and EGM not filed cases - Reg.

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....nitiated to liquidate pendency of drawback claims in different categories. 2. Continuing with the various trade facilitation measures initiated by this Office, it has now been decided that all pending Drawback claims shall be expeditiously processed to provide immediate relief to the business entities. 3. The pendency position of drawback claims in various queues under EDI System as on 30.11.2021 is as given below: Current Queue Reason for pendency Total DBK Shipping Bills Exporter Non-submission of reply by the exporters to the Query Raised 100 EGM Non-filing of EGM within the timeframe stipulated 632 EGM error Non-rectification and non-filing of application for correcting of EGM errors by the Shippin....

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.... the replies to the queries latest by 14-01-2022. If no reply is received by 14- 01-2022, the Proper Officer shall process/ decide such drawback Claims on the basis of available records without any further reference to the exporters concerned. Subsequently, for such cases, the exporters may file supplementary claims as per extant provision of Law and Rules made there under. (ii) EGM not filed and EGM Errors : On account of EGM errors, the pace of processing of Drawback claims gets substantially affected. While feeding the stuffing report or while filing the EGM, the details of the container number, rotation number and loading number etc. may get wrongly entered and these are called EGM errors. a. The errors that frequently....

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....ect to production of BRC (wherever due) before 14.01.2022. The cases where BRC due is not produced and rest of the cases not attended shall be processed at zero drawback, without affecting the right of the exporter to claim the drawback amount by filing supplementary claim subsequently without any time bar. d. Further, it is decided that if the EGM errors are not rectified within the stipulated time the EGM will be treated as not filed and the claims will be processed and disposed of at zero rates. Moreover, appropriate action also will be initiated against the shipping lines that habitually indulge in late and non-filing and nonreconciling of EGM errors under the provisions of the Customs Act, 1962 on case to case basis. 5. All....