Additional Information to be Furnished in Shipping Bill w.e.f 15.02.20 - Customs - Public Notice No 05/ 2020

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS GST BHAVAN, 41/A, SASSOON ROAD, PUNE-411001 F. No. 22/Cus/EDI/PN-SO/2020 Dated: 12-02-2020 Public Notice No 05/ 2020 Sub:- Additional Information to be Furnished in Shipping Bill w.e.f 15.02.20 - reg. Kind reference of trade and stake holders is invited to CBIC Circular No 09/2020 dated 05th February 2020 regarding Streamlining export data to include District level details in Shipping Bills and Notification No 33/2019-Cus(NT) dated 25/04/2019 vide which the Shipping Bill (Electronic Declaration and Paperless Processing) Regulations 2019 were notified. In order to boost domestic manufacturing and promote exports the board has decided to incorporate additional attributes in the Shipping Bill to enable the Customs Systems to capture the Districts and States of Origin for goods being exported. This is also aimed at bringing uniformity with data/ information capture in the GSTN. In addition to the District and State of Origin of the export goods, certain additional data like Standard Unit Quantity Code (SQC), Preferential/Free Trade Agreement (PTA/FTA) related details where applicable and GST Compensation Cess will also be captured in the Shipping Bill for improving the data quality as well as help policy makers in monitoring exports under PTAs. Following details as given in Table A will be required to be declared in the Single Window table of the Shipping Bill w.e.f. 15.02.20. TABLE A Information Declaration in the Single Window Table Remarks State of Origin INFO TYPE-ORC INFO_QFR - STO INFO CD - State code as the per Annexure B District of Origin INFO TYPE-ORC INFO_QFR - DOO INFO CD - District code as the per Annexure B Both the district as well as state codes are mandatory for every item and the District code should be of the state declared as the State of Origin Standard Unit Quantity Code (SQC) INFO TYPE-CHR INFO_QFR-SQC INFO_MSR -_Actual quantity in the Standard UQC as per the Customs Tariff INFO_UQC - Standard UQC for that CTH as per the Customs Tariff SQC is also mandatory for all the items. Even if the SQC is the same as the commercial Unit Quantity Code declared for the item in the item table, it will have to be separately declared (along with the quantity) in the Single Window Table as well. Export under Preferential/Free Trade Agreement INFO TYPE-ORC INFO_QFR - EPT INFO CD - As per the Annexure A Mandatory for all the items. Wherever Exports are not under any PTA, INFO_CD should be declared as NCPTI GST Compensation Cess INFO TYPE-DTY INFO_QFR - GCESS INFO MSR -_Actual GST comp Cess Amount INFO_UQC - INR Presently Exporter declares IGST + Comp Cess in one field as IGST amount paid. W.e.f, 15.02.20, Comp Cess details should be declared in the Single Window Table 2. Another change becoming effective from 15.02.2020 is mandatory uploading of Invoice in e-Sanchit for every Shipping Bill and subsequent declaration of document code and Image Reference Numbers (IRNs ) in the SB. W.e.f. 15.02.2020, for every Invoice declared in the Shipping Bill, the reference of IRN generated from eSanchit with the relevant document code as given below must be provided: 380000 - Invoice 331000 - Invoice cum packing List Note: At least one of the above document codes should be available for every export invoice Annexure A - Trade Agreements Sl. No. Name of the Agreement Date of Signing of the Agreement Agreement Code 1 India - Sri Lanka FTA 28th December. 1998 FTAOSL 2 Agreement on SAFTA 4 January, 2004 FTAOSA 3 India Nepal Treaty of Trade 27 October 2009 FTAONL 4 India - Bhutan Agreement on Trade Commerce and Transit 17 January, 1972 FTAOBT 5 India - Thailand FTA - Early Harvest Scheme (EHS) 9t October, 2003 FTAOTH 6 India - Singapore CECA 29t June, 2005 CEPASG 7 India - ASEAN- CECA - Trade in Goods, Services and Investment Agreement 13t August, 2009 for goods and November, 2014 for Services and Investment CEPASEA 8 India - South Korea CEPA 7t August 2009 CEPAKR 9 India - Japan CEPA 16t February, 2011 CEPAJP 10 India - Malaysia CECA 18t February, 2011 CECAMY 1 Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) July, 1975 (revised on 2nd November, 2005) PTAAPTA 2 Global System of Trade Preferences (GSTP) 13 April, 1988 GSTP 3 SAARC Preferential Trading Agreement (SAPTA) 11 April, 1993 PTAOSA 4 India Afghanistan 6t March, 2003 PTAOAF 5 India MERCOSUR 25t January, 2004 PTAOMER 6 India - Chile 8t March, 2006 PTAOCL 7 Preferential Trade Benefit not claimed at Importing Country NCPTI Difficulties if any may be brought to the notice of the undersigned. (P K Behera) Commissioner