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Faceless Assessment - Measures for timely assessment of Bills of Entry and clarification on defacement of physical documents - Customs - PUBLIC NOTICE NO. : 70/2020

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..... /2020-Cus dated 05.06.2020, 34/2020-Cus dated 30.07.2020 as well as Instruction No. 09/2020-Cus dated 05.06.2020 related to Faceless Assessment. 2. Board has reviewed the implementation of Faceless Assessment. While the implementation has been largely smooth, Board's attention has been drawn to some issues impacting the pace of assessment and clearances of consignments. As the prompt and timely assessment of Bills of Entry and clearance of imported consignments are key objectives of Turant Customs, these issues have been examined and remedial measures have been identified. Accordingly, Board prescribes the following measures for Faceless Assessment: 2.1. Continuous Assessment: i. There may be possible delays in assessment when Bills of .....

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..... ively utilised by the PAG and Principal Commissioner of Customs in charge. The Principal Commissioner in charge shall monitor the disposal of the B/E pending with the PAG and at the stage of examination for their timely disposal and when required, he/she shall co-ordinate with the NAC Commissioners for prompt disposal of pending B/Ds pertaining to the commissionerate. 2.2. Raising of Queries by FAG Officers: i. There is a need to ensure that queries are minimized to the extent absolutely necessary for carrying out the assessment. Queries should not be raised in piecemeal manner and to the extent possible multiple and repeat queries are to be avoided. The Principal Commissioner shall regularly monitor and review the queries to ensure this. I .....

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..... Compliance Verification (CCV) stage at the Port of Import. While Appraising/ Assessment officer can make a suitable remark in the system for such verification by the Port of Import, the B/E shall not be kept pending for assessment. The Working Group on Prohibitions/ Restrictions is advised to identify the item wise CCV requirements for uniformity in the FAG and also communicate the same to RMCC for their central enforcement. Once this is done, the Appraising/ Assessment officer would no longer need to insert a remark to this effect in the system. 2.3. Resorting to First Checks: i. Upon review of the practice of the FAG officers resorting to First Check, it is clear that this practice needs to be streamlined both for purposes of uniformity .....

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..... low Based on the examination report, the B/E would be assigned to FAG for completion of the assessment. iii. All other instances, including the FOC (Free of Charge) and temporary import consignments, must ordinarily be resorted to only Second Check. However, in the exceptional instance when the FAG has genuine reasons to believe that a First Check examination report is required for completion of assessment i.e., determination of valuation, classification, rate of duty, and other parameters relevant for determination of Customs duty, the same may be ordered only with the approval of Joint Commissioner/ Additional Commissioner in the Customs Automated System. It is clarified that this would include the cases where importer himself requests fo .....

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..... essed the subject B/E previously. The self-assessed B/E is facilitated post which the importer seeks an amendment that may impact the assessment. In such case, the B/E would be sent to the any of the FAG for assessment by the Customs Automated System. The self-assessment made by the importer is questioned by the FAG and after due process, the assessment is changed. In this case the importer may either accept the new assessment or seek an assessment order. In both situations, if the importer subsequently seeks an amendment impacting the assessment, the B/E would be sent for consideration of the same FAG which had re-assessed the subject B/E previously. Scenario 2: Where the re-assessment is requested before OOC but would not impact the asses .....

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..... normally be based on the documents uploaded in the e-Sanchit, not requiring physical submission of documents. However, if in any exceptional situation the physical submission of documents is required by Customs, for defacement or validation, such submission would be made only at the TSKs. ii. Documents requiring verification during examination for validation with goods would continue to be done during examination, as at present. iii. Suitable procedures are to be devised by concerned officers for handling & safe keeping of the documents produced at TSKs. Ideally these documents should also be kept in electronic form." For uniformity, it is instructed to follow directions in Circular No.32/2020-Customs, dated 06.07.2020, which requ .....

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