Circular No.ES/ 130 / 2016-17 October 01, 2016
To: Members of the Council
Sub: - Discontinuation of practice of making manual debits on physical copy of Advance Authorizations registered at EDI Customs port
Dear Member,
This is to inform you that the Office of the Cebtral Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) has issued Instruction No. F. No. 605/30/2015- DBK dated 28.09.2016 regarding the discontinuation of the practice of making manual debits on physical copy of the Advance Authorizations registered at EDI Customs port.
It was brought to Board's notice that even for Advance Authorizations registered electronically at EDI Customs location where electronic ledger gets maintained, the physical authorizations, that are simultaneously issued and presented, are endorsed by Customs with manual debits of usage and this practice is not uniformly followed at all EDI ports of registration. It was informed that such manual endorsements replicate work, cause delay, and at times also lead to errors, all of which impose transaction costs on trade.
As a measure of enhancing the ease of doing business for exporters, CBEC has decided that the practice of evidencing debits manually on physical copy of Advance Authorization shall be discontinued with respect to future authorizations electronically registered at Customs EDI locations. Henceforth, the officer examining the imported goods and/ or giving Out-of-Charge order shall also re-check that the proper debit of the authorisation in the EDI system has been made.
Members may kindly make note of the above.
Thanking you,
V. ANIL KUMAR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
