Improving Ease of Doing Business Issuance of Electronic Delivery Orders

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..... hief Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise All Commissioners of Customs All Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise Sir / Madam, Subject: Improving Ease of Doing Business Issuance of Electronic Delivery Orders -regarding As part of Government's initiatives for improving “Ease of Doing Business”, several facilitation measures are being taken by the Central Board of Exci .....

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..... in turn send to the Custodian the Delivery Order while also advising the importer or the Customs Broker of the issuance of the Delivery Order. 3. Traditionally, Airline and Shipping Lines have allowed the pick-up of import cargo by conveying a paper-based Delivery Order in a format acceptable to the Custodian. The importer or his Customs Broker visits the counter of the Shipping Line/Airline or C .....

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..... 5. Apart from the above prerequisites, it will facilitate trade if Shipping Lines, Airlines and Consol Agents can adopt a system of electronic invoicing of all charges along with the facility to conclude the payment process using e-Payment facilities. It is only then that the importer or his Customs Broker can avoid the mandatory personal visit to the office/counter of the Shipping Line/ Airline .....

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..... nual Delivery Order, as a purely temporary measure, in order to avoid any difficulty or delay in clearance of imported goods. 8. It is expected that elimination of hard-copy Delivery Order and implementation of the proposed online system of Delivery Order would enable Shipping Lines, Airlines and Consol Agents to issue Delivery Order at the earliest possible time in the process of unloading of ca .....

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..... ls, followed by another Public Notice for the full scale launch. The relevant Public Notices 05/2015 and 09/2015 may be found on Commissioner of Customs ACC, Sahars website http://www.accmumbai.gov.in/aircargo/miscellaneous/pn_2015_16.html# . 11. All Customs formations may take necessary steps to bring the stakeholders together in order to encourage the implementation of electronic transmission o .....

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