Further facilitating trade and streamlining procedure through various Initiatives for Contactless Customs - Customs - PUBLIC NOTICE No. 51/2020

..... dated 06.07.2020 and ICES Advisory No. 23/2020 on the above captioned subject. 2. Customs has recently introduced a number of initiatives that leverage technology in order to enhance efficiency in the Customs clearance process thereby leading to speedy clearances, transparency in decision making, ease of doing business and very importantly, reduce physical contact in the prevailing pandemic situation. These initiatives include, amongst others, automated clearances of Bills of Entry, digitisation .....

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..... advised to furnish bond details along with the Bill of Entry and to use Continuity bonds wherever possible so as to avoid the necessity to physically visit Customs House for registration or debiting of Bonds. b) Simolified Registration of Importers in ICEGATE: Although simplified Registration module for importers based on verification provided in associated GSTIN has been provided without the requirement of digital signature, since many importers have not availed the same, various functionalitie .....

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..... ctivation of the Bill of Entry. This becomes all the more challenging in the case of faceless assessment where the Bill of Entry gets assessed at some other port. Now, the need for activating has been done away with and the Bill of Entry will automatically come to the assessing officer's queue after being marked by the Import Shed officers with completed first check examination report. ii) Further, there was no facility earlier with the appraising officer to seek additional inputs from the e .....

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