Advisory for operationalisation of the Customs (Waiver of Interest) Third Order, 2023 dated April 17, 2023 and the consequential regularisation of electronic Bills of Entry in case of manual Out of Charge (OOC) given in the wake of glitches in the implementation of ECL facility since April 01, 2023-reg

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....30.07.2023 PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 63 / 2023 Subject : Advisory for operationalisation of the Customs (Waiver of Interest) Third Order, 2023 dated April 17, 2023 and the consequential regularisation of electronic Bills of Entry in case of manual Out of Charge (OOC) given in the wake of glitches in the implementation of ECL facility since April 01, 2023-reg Attention of Importers, Customs Brokers, and all other stakeholders is invited towards DG Systems Advisory (Copy attached) dated 27-07-2023 on the subject mentioned above. 2. Facility of Electronic Cash Ledger (ECL) was implemented in Customs vide Board Circular 9/2023 dtd. 30.03.2023. It provided enabling Provisions whereby the importer, exporter or any person liable to pay duty, f....

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.... Sheva   ICEGATE Directorate General of Systems and Data Management CENTRAL BOARD OF INDIRECT TAXES & CUSTOMS Date: July 27, 2023 Category: Customs Issued by: ICEGATE Subject : Advisory for operationalisation of the Customs (Waiver of Interest) Third Order, 2023 dated April 17, 2023 and the consequential regularisation of electronic Bills of Entry in case of manual Out of Charge (OOC) given in the wake of glitches in the implementation of ECL facility since April 01, 2023. It has been noticed that due to glitches in the functioning of Electronic Cash Ledger (ECL) facility, as a trade facilitation measure, manual Out of Charge was given by the field formations to the cargo requiring urgent clearance. Since ECL....

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....or the ICEGATE registered users whose wallets containing the released blocked funds were made accessible as on the date of this Advisory, 'Date of Removal of the System Inability' would be deemed as the date of issue of this Advisory; For example, if the date of issue of this advisory is, say, July 27, 2023, then the user would have to pay duty along with interest by July 30, 2023. Failure to do so would make him ineligible for interest waiver by way of subsequent refund of the same in terms of the Customs (Waiver of Interest) Third Order, 2023 dated April 17, 2023. (ii) For other ICEGATE registered users, if any, the 'Date of Removal of the System Inability' would be the date on which the wallet containing the released bl....