Ref No. : ES/ 63/2017-18                                                                                                    June 01, 2017

To: Members of the Council

Sub:  Assessment and Examination of consignments/ bills of entry of importers accorded Direct Port Delivery (DPD) facility which is not facilitated by RMS and has been marked for ‘Assessment and Examination’

Dear Sir,

JNCH (Nhava Sheva) has issued Public Notice No. 68/ 2017- Customs dated 30.05. 2017 on the above subject.

Attention of members of the trade is invited to various measures taken for facilitation of trade and for reduction of cost to the importer in the spirit of ‘Ease of doing Business’ and to reduce dwell time in clearance of the imported consignments.

As you may be aware, the purpose of DPD facility is to facilitate the import of goods in the manner so as to achieve the above mentioned objective.

In this connection, it has been observed that

• In case of consignments/ bills of entry of importers accorded DPD facility and which have not been facilitated by Risk Management System (RMS) and marked by system for ‘Assessment and Examination’, the Assessing Group orders for a certain percentage of those goods for examination.

• For this purpose all the containers pertaining to the Bill of entry are shifted to the CFS for examination, which increases the dwell time & transaction cost.

Hence, as a measure of trade facilitation and in the spirit of ‘Ease of Doing Business ’, it has been decided that all the Assessing Groups of JNCH will follow the prescribed procedures given in the Public Notice No. 68/2017 while giving examination order in case of consignments/ bills of entry of importers accorded DPD facility which are not facilitated by RMS and which have been marked for ‘Assessment and Examination’ by system.

Members may kindly make note of the same.

Thanking You,

V.ANIL KUMAR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR