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Improvements in Faceless Assessment - Measures for expeditious Customs clearances
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....pe for improvement which would potentially lead to a substantial increase in the pace of assessments and Customs clearance, while further enhancing the uniformity in assessments and anonymity with a view to reduce interface with the trade. 3. Accordingly, Board has decided to implement the following measures in the Customs Faceless Assessment and clearance processes: Enhancement of facilitation levels: Board has earlier reviewed the facilitation levels in imports and vide Circular No. 39/2011-Customs dated 02.09.2011 decided the facilitation targets should be 80% for Air Cargo Complexes, 70% for Seaports and 60% for ICDs. Various initiatives have since been taken to leverage technology as well as simplify extant procedures. As a result, the overall average facilitation levels have already exceeded these levels with the All-India average facilitation level across all Customs stations being 77% for May 2021. Board also notes that the use of machine learning and the other state of art technologies now enables RMS to more precisely target the risky consignments thereby enabling more focused attention on lesser number of Bills of Entry for assessment by the FAGs. Thus, Board ha....
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....r or a First Check, as may be warranted. iii. Jurisdictional Pr. Chief/ Chief Commissioners of Customs shall ensure as far as possible that one Appraising Officer is given responsibility of not more than 2 (two) FAGs. The re-organisation within the zones may be undertaken such that assessing officers at the ports with the expertise of the items under a FAG are allotted to that FAG. iv. The total number of queries which can be raised by an Appraising Officer in respect of a Bill of Entry would now be restricted to 3 (three). Further, such queries can now be raised without seeking approval of the Addl./Joint Commissioner of Customs. Circular No. 55/2020-Customs dated 17.12.2020 stands suitably modified. In this regard, considering this limit to the number of queries, Board desires that, Appraising Officer raises query in a clear and holistic manner giving reference to supporting details/documents with respect to Valuation/Classification etc., so that the importer does not have any doubt and is in a position to reply categorically for early completion of verification. v. The option to `set-aside Rs. 5 (five) Bills of Entry, which is already available with th....
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....ng of Bill of Entry have led to quicker turn-around time for the import cargo. The present decision to enhance the facilitation levels is also a step in this direction. However, while facilitation levels are going up, the DPD levels are not rising commensurately. This is primarily because the present policy is to have an entity based DPD while facilitation levels are linked primarily to Bills of Entry. Accordingly, in order to enhance DPD for faster Customs clearances as well as de-congestion of ports, Board has decided to shift from entity based DPD to a Bill of Entry based DPD. In short, in partial amendment to the said circular, Board has decided that, as a general principle, all the advance Bills of Entry which are fully facilitated (do not require assessment &/or examination) would be granted the facility of DPD. It is clarified that this facility is over and above the present system of entity based DPD extended to AEO clients. However, the entity whose Bill of Entry has been facilitated for DPD would be required to adhere to the requirements of the ports/terminals/custodians for taking physical delivery of the container. Further, to optimise the ground handling by the ports/t....
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....l/Joint Commissioner of Customs of the concerned FAG/Import Shed. iv. The status of the disposal would be updated on the dashboard of ICEGATE, TSK, FAG and to the concerned officers. 4. As aforementioned, the changes stipulated in paras 3.1 to 3.5 will come into effect from 15.07.2021. Wherever required, DG Systems would shortly be issuing advisories to give effect to these changes. 5. In case of any difficulty, the specific issue may be brought to the notice of Shri Y.C.S Swmay, Additional Commissioner of Customs, New Customs house, Panambur, Mangaluru. IMAMUDDIN AHMAD Commissioner of customs Annexure I (Revision of Annexure II of Circular No.45/2020-Customs dt.12.10.2020) National Assessment Centres National Assessment Centre & Co-Conveners (Pr.CC/CC of the Zone) Faceless Assessment Groups (Chapters covered by Customs Tariff Act, 1975) Nodal Commissioners & FAG from Zones (Existing) Nodal Commissioners & FAG from Zones (Revised) (1) (2) (3) (4) Primary Products Co-Conveners: Kolkata, Guwahati 1 (01 to 15)- Primary products 1 1. Ahmedabad 2. Bengaluru 3. Bhubaneshwar 4. Chennai 5. Delhi 6. Delhi (P....
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....one II 9. Nagpur 10. Patna (Preventive) 11. Pune 12. Tiruchirappalli (Preventive) 13. Visakhapatnam Textile Products Co-Conveners: Bengaluru Tiruchirappalli (Preventive) 3, (50-70) 1. Ahmedabad 2. Bengaluru 3. Chennai 4. Delhi 5. Delhi (Prev.) 6. Kolkata 7. Mumbai I 8. Mumbai II 9. Mumbai III 10. Patna (Prev.) 11. Thiruvananthapuram 12. Tiruchirappalli (Prev.). 1. Ahmedabad 2. Bengaluru 3. Chennai 4. Delhi 5. Delhi (Preventive) 6. Kolkata 7. Mumbai Zone I 8. Mumbai Zone II 9. Tiruchirappalli (Preventive) 3A (71) 1. Ahmedabad 2. Delhi 3. Delhi (Prev.) 4. Kolkata 5. Chennai 6. Mumbai III 1. Delhi 2. Delhi (Prev.) 3. Kolkata 4. Chennai 5. Mumbai III Metal Products Co-Conveners: Delhi (Preventive), Nagpur 4 (72-73)- Ferrous base metals 1. Ahmedabad 2. Bengaluru 3. Bhopal 4. Chennai 5. Delhi 6. Delhi (Prev.) 7. Guwahati 8. Hyderabad 9. Kolkata 10. Meerut 11. Mumbai I 12. Mumbai II 13. Mumbai III 14. Nagpur 15. Pune 16. Thiruvananthapuram 17. Vishakhapatnam 1. Ahmedabad 2. Bhopal 3. Chennai 4. Delhi ....