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Turant Customs, Faceless Customs, Contactless Customs, Paperless Customs - CBEC's Customs Manual 2023 - Customs

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..... and the efforts in this direction are being spearheaded by the CBIC by the introduction of the next generation reforms aptly named Turant Customs which is a comprehensive package of various elements that have been implemented in recent years. The next generation reforms in the Customs clearance process under the umbrella of Turant Customs are with the objectives of speedy clearance, transparency in decision making, and ease of doing business. Board rolled out numerous changes to the Customs clearance process, which combine together support Turant Customs. These initiatives include the self-registration of goods by importers, automated clearances of bills of entry, digitisation of customs documents, paperless clearance, etc. The Turant Custo .....

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..... es under CBIC, to function as knowledge hub for the commodities assigned to that particular NAC etc., (Reference Circular No.40/2020-Customs dated 4th September 2020). 4.2.3 Subsequent to all India coverage of imports by Faceless Assessment, CBIC took certain measures for timely assessment and faster clearance of goods such as-measures to ensure that there would be no delays on weekends and holidays, measures to minimize and rationalize raising of queries to importers, measures to streamline import cases which are to be sent for First Check examinations, measures for better facilitations by warranting interactions between NACs and Risk Management Division of CBIC, guidelines for reassessing imports as well as general grievance redressal mec .....

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..... s implemented Standard Examination Orders in the Customs system. The said implementation started for goods covered under Assessment Group 4 in all the Customs Stations. This functionality is expected to enhance the uniformity in examination, and lower the time taken in the process as well as reduce associated costs. Considering the on track implementation and to harmonize the examination orders across FAGs, the Board has implemented the Standard Examination Orders to the goods across all other Assessment Groups also. [Refer Circulars No.14/2021-Customs dated 07.07.2021, No.16/2022-Customs dated 29.08.2022, No.23/2022-Customs dated 03.11.2022 and No. 02/2023 dated 11.01.2023] 4.3 Contactless Customs: In recent years, CBIC has initiated refor .....

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..... the proper officer would be able to directly and immediately grant clearance on the System. Besides greatly reducing the dwell time of the goods that are pending only for the grant of such clearance, this has reduced the interface of the trade with the department personnel to the advantage of both. The Bills of Entry which are fully facilitated by the Risk Management System will also be automatically routed to the proper officer for giving clearance after registration has been completed by the importer. [Refer Circular No.09/2019-Customs dated 28th February 2019] 4.3.3 Automated clearances of Bills of Entry : A further trade facilitation initiative in the Customs clearance process is the Customs Compliance Verification (CCV) which operates .....

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..... approval and acceptance at PFMS, for quick rectification at their end. [Refer Circular No.32/2020-Customs dated 6th July 2020] 4.3.5 Automated debit of bond after Assessment: CBIC has done away with the requirement for importers to physically visit Customs House for physical debit of Bonds after the Bill of Entry is returned (to the importer) for the payment of duty. ICES now automatically debits the Bond and reflect the same in the first copy of the Bill of Entry, provided the details of the Bond are provided during submission of the Bill of Entry. [Refer Circular No.32/2020-Customs dated 6th July 2020] 4.3.6 Simplified Registration of Importers/Exporters in ICEGATE: Simplified Registration module for importers / exporters based on verifi .....

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..... for handling & safe keeping of the documents produced at TSKs. Ideally these documents should also be kept in electronic form [Refer Circular No.32/2020-Customs dated 6th July 2020] 4.4 Paperless Customs: CBIC has taken initiatives to enable digital submission and transmission of both Bills of Entry and Shipping Bills in 2020. Besides saving time, the cost of printing paper documents has also been substantially reduced. 4.4.1 PDF copies of Bills of Entry and gatepass- Board has decided to enable electronic communication of PDF based Final eOoC (electronic Out of Charge) copy of BoE and eGatepass to the importers/Customs Brokers. This electronic communication would reduce interface between the Customs authorities and the importers/Custo .....

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