Amendment in Circular No. 29/2020-Customs dated 22.06.2020 for allowing transhipment of Bangladesh export cargo to third countries through Delhi Air Cargo

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....3-Customs dated 07.02.2023 issued by Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) 2. CBIC vide Circular No. 42/2018-Customs dated 02.11.2018 prescribed a procedure for a Pilot on Transhipment of Export Cargo from Bangladesh to third countries through Land Customs Stations (LCSs) to Kolkata Port/Airport, in containers or closed bodied trucks. The facility was made available from 5^th Non 2018 for the following- SI. No. Name of LCSs Name of port/air cargo 1 LCS Petrapole By road to: i. Kolkata Port ii. Air Cargo complex, Kolkata iii. Nhavasheva Port 2 (i) LCS Petrapole (ii) LCS Gede/Ranaghat By rail to Nhavasheva port Through this Circular, a Pilot program was initially laun....

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....y the Port/ air cargo through which the cargo is meant to be transshipped and state the destination port or airport of discharge. No cargo meant for discharge in India is permitted to be brought in the same truck/container/wagon, carrying the transhipment cargo; v. The Bill of Transshipment shall be presented in triplicate to the proper officer (Superintendent of Customs) for permission; vi. While presenting the Bill of Transshipment, the authorised representative of the shipping line or Airline shall produce an Electronic Cargo Tracking System (ECTS) seal for sealing the closed body truck or container, as the case may be. The seal number shall be declared on the Bill of Transshipment; vii. The ECTS seal shall be ....

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.... conveyance to the proper officer of Customs; the proper officer shall check the ECTS web application for seal integrity and if there is no alert regarding unauthorized unsealing, the ECTS seal shall be removed and returned to the person-in-charge of the conveyance. xii. The Proper Officer shall permit the goods to be loaded on board the aircraft or vessel, as the case may be, by recording his order on the Bill of Transshipment; xiii. The details of the Sea or Air manifest (export manifest) shall be recorded on the Bill of Transshipment as well as uploaded on the ECTS web application upon which a "Trip Report" will be generated at the Port or Airport and LCS for record. The Transshipment Bond can then be duly credited or c....

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....TR, 2018 which mandates the authorized carrier to provide track and trace facility for locating goods brought for transhipment. Regulation 9 of SCMTR, 2018 provides for sealing of cargo meant for transhipment by land route. It is clarified that presently the electronic cargo tracking system (ECTS) and ECTS seals are being provided by M/S Transecur Telematics Private Limited (wwww.transecur.com) under ADB's Pilot Program for monitoring of traffic in transit of Nepal. The authorized carriers have an option to use the same for the transhipment of goods from Bangladesh, in absence of any other facility. 4. The CBIC has recently issued a Circular No. 03/2023-Customs dated 07.02.2023. While noting that Circular No. 29/2020-Customs allowed ....