Attention of Importer/Customs Brokers is invited to recent Board Circular No. 010/2016 Customs dated 15.03.2016 regarding the implementation of Single Window and Integrated declaration of Bill of Entry for imports - Customs - 23/2016

OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (GENERAL ICD MULUND) INLAND CONTAINER DEPOT MULUND (EAST), MUMBAI 400 081 F. No. S/26-Misc-170/2012-13 CFS (M)(I) Date- 31.03.2016 PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 23/2016 Attention of Importer/Customs Brokers is invited to recent Board Circular No. 010/2016 Customs dated 15.03.2016 regarding the implementation of Single Window and Integrated declaration of Bill of Entry for imports. 2. In this regard, it is to inform that substantial changes have been made in the BE format and several additional fields have been added to the Bill of Entry, few of which are mandatory in nature. Hence, if declarant doesn t compulsorily fill in these key fields, the BE job is liable to get rejected in filing. 3. The Technical specification of BE message format is already available in ICEGATE website under Downloads- ICEGATE Guidelines- Integrated BE Declaration. All the directories needed for Integrated BE declaration is made available in ICEGATE website under Downloads- Single Window- Single Window directories. PGA wise guidelines for filing up Integrated Declaration will also be made available in ICEGATE shortly. 4. The Important aspects to be considered in the integrated declaration in general (other than Single Window Requirements for which detailed guidelines are being issued separately) are given below for quick reference. For clarification, the detailed message document may be referred. I. Certain fields in message documents are suffixed with @@, indicating that no date is expected to be entered presently, can be sent as blank. These are provisioned for future utility, which would be notified later. (Eg. AEO, UCR etc.) II. Third party details for RBI purpose may be entered in invoice table, if applicable. III. RSP applicability field is expanded to include more flags such as Q,T,D to declare exemption related to bulk quantity, Institutional Industrial consumers respectively. IV Enduse of the item in Item table was mandatory text field. This field is now restricted to Coded value to be declared mandatorily. Code list is published in the ICEGATE website which includes generic code GNX100 for Trading purposes or GNX200 for manufacturing Purpose. V. Accessory status field is included to declare about the availability of accessories as per Accessories (Condition) Rules, 1963. VI. Preceding Level column is added in HSS table to capture details of multiple transactions involved in HSS transactions. If there is only one transaction, preceding Level would be 0. VII. New Flag E is added in Commercial Tax Type to capture Central Excise Registration No. when goods are imported following the IGCR (Import of Goods under Concessional rate of duty of excisable goods) Rules, 2016. VIII. Statement Table is added to enable Importers to electronically declare/undertake various statutory requirements, which is precursor for doing away with paper documents. Statement codes are mandatory to be declared are CUG00, CUG01, CUV01, CUV02, CUV03. The statement text is provided in ICEGATE. Statement Type is to be provided as DEC. Statement text can be left blank if forwarding code is sufficient. IX. AD Code details are made mandatory in BE. Unless AD code is declared indicating the AD code at which outward remittance is done/ to be performed, the BE would not be accepted. There is no need for prior registration of AD Code. 5. Any difficulties faced may be addressed in this regard to Office of the Dy. Commissioner of Customs ICD, Mulund Import (Phone No. 02225637772) or to Dy.Commissioner of Customs (Export) Admin. Building, Nanipada, Near Cement Depot ICD Mulund Mumbai-400081 or on Phone No. 022-25635788 , or ICEGATE Helpdesk (1800301011000 or icegatehelpdesk@icegate.gov.in) and nsm.ices@icegate.gov.in. Sd/- Principal Commissioner of Customs (Gen.) ICD-Mulund