Circular No.ES/204/ 2016-17 December 01, 2016
To: Members of the Council
Sub: - Reducing/ eliminating printouts in Customs Clearance
Dear Member,
Kindly refer to SRTEPC Circular No. ES/185/2016-17 dated 24.11.2016 wherein the Council informed you regarding Government’s step towards ease of doing business and promoting a paper free environment besides reducing cost of transactions vide CBEC Circular No. 55/2016-Customs dated 23.11.2016. The Council further issued Circular No. ES/190/2016-17 dated 28.11.2016 informing JNPT’s move vide Public Notice No. 152/2016 dated 24.11.2016 on the above issue.
As per CBEC’s Circular the following documents have been dispensed with for physical printing.
- GAR 7 forms/TR-6 Challans were being printed (3 copies) with the assessed copies of bill of entry. It has been decided to dispense with such printouts and the said documents will not printed by default.
- Transshipment permit copy: In case of transshipment of cargo from a seaport to a ICD or to another seaport the transshipment was 'being printed. It has been decided to dispense with this copy because of electronic connectivity between the gateway port and the ICD.
- Shipping bill (Exchange Control copy and Export Promotion copy): At the time of giving let export order these copies used to be printed to be given to authorized dealer and DGFT respectively. These copies have been dispensed with because detailed copy of shipping bill is not required by the authorized dealer and CBEC is providing digitally signed copy to DG FT.
- Bill of Entry(Exchange Control Copy) is being dispensed with because RBI has decided to do away with the requirement for the banks to obtain a physical copy of bill of entry from the importer as an evidence of import because data can be transferred in secured manner from the system of Customs department to IDPMS (Import Data Processing and Monitoring System).
However, they could be reasons like manual BoEs, insistence of importer, exporter etc.
The above instructions shall be operational from 01.12.2016.
Now, the Office of the Principal Commissioner of Customs, Air Cargo Customs (Sahar) has issued Public Notice No. 47/2016 dated 29.11.2016 on the above subject.
Members may kindly make note of the same.
Thanking you,
V. ANIL KUMAR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
