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Computerized Processing of Bills of Entry under the Indian Customs EDI System - Imports (ICES –I) at ICD – Dashrath (Vadodara)-Reg.

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..... of goods. The requisite documents also can be called for by the Appraising Group if required while processing the Bills of Entry. There are certain pre-requisites for filing the electronic declarations which are required to be complied with before filing Bill of Entry. 1.1 Registration of IE-Code of the Importer (i) IE-Code is being issued to the importers by DGFT, details of which are transmitted online to the Indian Customs EDI-System (ICES) on daily basis. ICES automatically registers the IE-Codes after confirming its validity to enable the importers to file the Bill of Entry electronically. Before filing the Bill of Entry the importers are advised to check from DGFT as to whether their IE-Code has already been transmitted to ICES. If their IE-Code has not been transmitted to ICES by DGFT, they should first get the same transmitted from DGFT, failing which they shall not be able to file Bill of Entry electronically for clearance of imported goods. (ii) In case the IE-Code is registered for exports the same shall hold good for imports also. The DGFT has notified certain generic Codes for certain classes of importers in the EXIM Policy and exempted them from taking a spec .....

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..... rrect conversion of Indian Rupees. List of Currency Codes attached as Appendix 1 1.6 Units of Measurement Codes Against any quantity of goods appropriate Code indicated against the respective measurement in the list appended with this Public Notice should only be used in the Bill of Entry and IGM as the case may be. List of Measurement Codes attached as Appendix 2 1.7 Country Codes: Wherever in the Bill of Entry or IGM etc. reference to country name is required to be made appropriate Code of the country as indicated in the list of country codes appended to this Public Notice should only be used. List of Country Codes attached as Appendix 3 1.8 Port Codes: All the port of the world have been codified by United Nation and allotted UN Lo codes. Appropriate port code should only be indicated wherever reference to port name is required to be made in a Bill of Entry and IGM or any other document. It is not possible to attach list of all port codes being too large. Correct code may be obtained from the respective Carriers or checked from UN website. (http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/) 1.9 Registration of DGFT Licences If the imports are against any of the DGFT Ex .....

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..... of IGM/SMTP/Consol Manifest The Shipping lines or other persons as envisaged under Section 30 of the Customs Act, 1962 shall submit the Sub Import General Manifest (SIGM)/Consol Manifest through the Service Centre at ICD- Dashrath (Vadodara), on all working days from 10.30 A.M to 5.30 P.M. However, the Manifest can also be electronically filed through ICEGATE on 24 hours basis. The IGM/SMTP/Consol Manifest should be presented at the service centre counter in the prescribed proforma. (Annexure B).A checklist would be generated by the Service Centre which would be verified by the authorised representative of the Shipping line and given to the service centre operator for submission after corrections, if any. 2.1 Apart from filing of SMTP/Consol Manifest through service centre, the Shipping lines would continue to file a hard copy of the SIGM with the Manifest Department. 2.2 Amendment in the IGM/SMTP/Console manifest after submission shall be carried out only after approval from the designated Customs authority. Amendment request shall be entered in the system at service centre, on submission in the system it shall appear before the designated officer for approval. If the de .....

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..... ext item, the word do will be accepted by the system. (v) ITC (HS) Nos., CTH and CETH shall be indicated in eight (8) digits without any decimal in between (e.g. 85011000 and not 8501.1000). Notification number shall be indicated in three (3) digits followed by a slash(/) and the issuing year (e.g. 201/81, 083/93). The notification no. indicated shall be the parent one and not the amending notification. This may be carefully noted. (vi) In respect of goods for which benefit of notification is claimed, against the entry Generic Description in Annexure C , List No. and the Serial no. of the List shall be mentioned in addition to the generic description of the item. The Service Centre Operator will feed first the List no. and Serial no., and if there is space left, generic description of the item. (vii) For example, Nebulizers are covered by S. No. 363 of the Table of Notification No. 021/02 (list 37, Sr. No. 19). This entry would be described as: - Generic Description CTH Notfn./Year, Sr. No L37/19, Nebulizers 90189093 021/02, Sr. No. 363 (viii) .....

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..... erated. In case of remote filing of Bill of Entry the CHA/Importer has to ensure correctness and validity of data entered failing which the data will either be rejected by the ICES or incorrect information shall be incorporated in the submitted Bill of Entry which shall lead to problems of amendments. 4 Processing of Bill of Entry for Assessment (i) Once the Bill of Entry is submitted in the system the ICES validates the details from various directories maintained in the system and calculates the value from the foreign currency to Indian Rupees applying the exchange rates as applicable on the date of submission of Bill of Entry in the system and determines the assessable value for levy of duty. Directories of the rates of duty as applicable on the goods on the relevant dates are also maintained in the system. ICES calculates the amount of duty leviable on the goods on the basis of rates of duty specified in the Customs Tariff, Central Excise Tariff, Cess Schedules, various notifications imposing rates of duty on imported goods and exemption notification as claimed by the importers in the Bill of Entry. Processing of the Bill of Entry takes place in an automated environment an .....

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..... mined if required, and for out of charge. All the Bills of Entry which are appraised by the System would be audited before being given out of charge. In so far as the NMI/DEC cases (e.g. Custom Notification Nos. 051/96 dated 23.07.96, 39/96 dated 23.07.96) are concerned, the debiting in the Licence etc. would be required to be done by the Appraiser/Superintendent in the Import Shed. Examination of such goods would be carried out as per prescribed norms. The system appraisal Scheme is a Notification based Scheme and not description based. If the Appraising Officer (Audit) finds that the Bill of Entry is not fit to be cleared under System Appraisal Scheme he may forward the Bill of Entry back for regular assessment. For this the role of SAA has to be assigned separately to one of the shed supdt/shed Appraiser 4.2 Second Check Appraisement The electronic B/E will be assessed on the basis of the claims made in Annexure C . In case the Assessing officer does not agree with the claim regarding tariff classification, notifications, declared value etc., he shall raise a query in the system. On approval by the AC (Group), the query will be printed in the Service Centre for being pa .....

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..... all move in the system as in the case of second check assessment. The CHA/Importer shall take print of assessed copy of Bill of Entry and TR-6 challan and shall deposit duty amount with the designated bank. 4.4 Audit After completion of assessment from the Assessing Officer, the B/E will be moved to the Auditors screen electronically for doing concurrent audit. The audit officer will check all the details in the B/E and the assessment done by the Appraiser/Superintendent. If the Audit Officer is in agreement with the assessment, the audit is completed and the B/E shall automatically move to the AC/DC screen. If the Audit Officer is not in agreement with the assessment then he shall indicate his objection online and forward the document back electronically in the system to Assessing Officer for consideration of the audit objection. The Audit Officer has the facility to view all the details in the B/E but has no authority to make any change in the data declared by the importer on the Bill of Entry. After the dispute is settled the Auditor shall clear the Bill of Entry in Audit. 4.5 Printing of Assessed copy of Bill of Entry: After completion of assessment and audit, print .....

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..... ntry shall move to Appraiser/Supdtt., screen for out of charge. The signature of the CHA/Importer shall be obtained on the report, in token of that the good have been examined in their presence. Name of the CHA/Importer should also be recorded along with his I-Card No. In case of first check Bill of Entry where examination has already taken place, the Bill of Entry shall move to the Appraiser/Supdt directly for out of charge after payment of duty. 6.2 Where Green Channel facility has been allowed to Importer, the Bill of Entry shall appear on the screen of AC/DC Import Shed for confirming green channel and waiving examination of goods. The Bill of Entry in such case shall move to Import Shed Appraiser/Supdtt. for out of charge order. 6.3 All the above documents, except original Licence, will be retained by Customs at the time of giving out of charge . Hence, only the certified photo copies of delivery order, Master Bill of Lading, House Bill of Lading should be attached instead of originals. 6.4 On the basis of the examination report, the Appraising Group may revise the assessment or raise a further query to the importers, if necessary. 6.5 After completion of the exam .....

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..... roval of AC/DC the Bill of Entry will get accepted by system and B/E No will be generated. The Bill of Entry thereafter will be processed in the same manner as the normal Bill of Entry. 8. Amendment of Bill Of Entry 8.1 In case of any errors noticed after submission of Bill of Entry, but before examination of goods the CHA/importer may seek amendment of the Bill of Entry through the Service Centre after obtaining the approval of the concerned group AC. The required amendment shall be entered into the system by the operator of the service center. Only after acceptance by the group Appraiser/Supdt and AC/DC the amendment will get incorporated in the Bill of Entry. After amendment the Bill of Entry shall be assessed as usual. If the duty was paid prior to amendment a differential duty challan will be printed along with the revised assessed Bill of Entry. 8.2 After Out of Charge Order no amendment shall be allowed in the Bill of Entry. However, in case amendment is warranted after Out of Charge Order but before delivery of goods, the System Manager can cancel the out of charge Order in the system. The original prints of the Importer s and Exchange Control copies of Bill of Ent .....

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..... of the Shipping Bills against which the DEPB has been issued by the DGFT. The officer designated by Asst/Dy. Commissioner shall verify each Shipping Bill in the system through the DEPB verification menu in ICES.. In case any manually processed Shipping Bill is involved, the verification shall be done on the basis of copy of Shipping Bill received along with the EGM from the carriers. The Shipping Bills shall be endorsed with the DEPB No., DEPB date, DGFT File No., and Issuing Authority. After satisfactory verification of all the Shipping Bills, the officer designated by Asst./Dy. Commissioner shall make an endorsement on the reverse of the DEPB and the list of Shipping Bills attached with the DEPB to the effect that the verification of all the Shipping Bills is satisfactorily done and put his signature with date and official stamp. 11.3 Registration Of DEPB (i) Before claiming exemption under DEPB Exemption Notification 034/97-Cus., dated 7.04.1997 against a DEPB, the licence in question is required to be registered in the import system. The officer designated by Asst./Dy. Commissioner to register the DEPB in the system shall ensure that verification of DEPB with reference to .....

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..... e system will generate a TRA registration number. This Registration Number should be endorsed on the Importer s copy of TRA (original) and the Customs copy received from the issuing Customs station. Only fresh RAs will be registered in the EDI System. Partially utilized RAs will continue to be handled manually. Following particulars shall be entered in the System through the menu relating to transfer release advice. Release Advice No. Release Advice Date Release Registration No. Customs Station to which issued IEC of R.A. holder if different from DEPB holder DUTY CREDIT AMOUNT transferred Export FOB amount transferred Invoice No MAWB/BL No./DT HAWB/HBL No./DT. Conditions if any (iii) If the DEPB is already registered in the System and having sufficient balance in the Duty Credit and Export FOB value is available, the System will print a check list of TRA. The check list shall be verified by the DEPB holder. If the particulars are correct the check list will be signed by the DEPB holder and returned to the proper officer who will exercise option for issue of TRA in the System. The System shall generate three copies of the release advice titled as: .....

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..... number 5 (serial number of item in the licence list) and 7 (quantity for licence debit) are not required to be filled in for DEPB Bs/E. (iv) If the basic Customs duty and the additional Customs duty debitable to the licence is zero, the DEPB exemption will not be admissible to that item. System will not allow exemption under Notification 034/97 etc. for that item. 11.7 Check List of B/E After data entry, checklist will be printed as usual and given to the importers/CHAs for verifying the correctness of data captured. For identification against the respective item, (DEPB) and Notification 034/97 will appear. At the end of the check list, a statement of debits of EXPORT FOB (= import CIF) and duty sought to be debited, DEPB wise against an item S. No. of an invoice, will also be printed. The importers/CHAs should check the details of DEPB No. carefully to ensure that only that DEPB would be debited which he intended to do so. If the entries are correct, the checklist may be returned to the data entry operator for submission of B/E in the System. Errors, if any, noticed may be got corrected by the data entry operator. 11.8 Submission of B/E On submission of the B/E i .....

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..... CIF of the related items will be debited to export FOB in the DEPB. Where exemption from additional duty is not claimed, only basic duty will be debited. These debits will be made by the System in the DEPB Ledger. If more than one DEPB is utilized against an item only CIF amount to be debited against each DEPB should be indicated by the importers. The duty amount will be proportionately calculated by the System for debit in the DEPB. The importers therefore should ensure that sufficient balance in the duty credit amount and export FOB is available in the DEPB to cover amounts of both components, for debiting, failing which the system will not accept the declaration for B/E. In case the importer desires to utilize the DEPB for part of the quantity of an item in the invoice, he may split the quantity of that item and prepare the declaration accordingly. 11.11 Debiting of DEPB against Manual B/E (i) If a Bill of Entry is processed manually, importers may choose to avail the exemption under the DEPB Scheme and get the DEPB debited for exempted amount of duty. In such cases manual B/E will be assessed as usual. After assessment, the amount of duty forgone due to exemption under D .....

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..... alue of licence, the system will not permit registration. The value will always be CIF for imports and FOB in respect of exports. Where the value is in foreign currency it should be only one currency and not in multi-currency. The licence holders therefore, should check these details in their licences and ensure that the same are corrected before presenting the licence for registration. The licences with incorrect details will be rejected by the system and cannot be used for availing exemption from duty and clearance of goods. Such licences should be corrected from concerned DGFT office before presenting to Customs. (ii) The licences, which have already been partially utilized, will be registered in the system only for the balances available. (iii) After successful entry of details, a check list will be printed by registration clerk and given to the licence holder for confirming correctness of the data entered. Registration clerk will make correction, if any and will return the same to the licence holder. It is the sole responsibility of the licence holder to verify and confirm the correctness of the data entered before proceeding further. License should not be sent by post o .....

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..... eck list. The system will generate a licence Regn. No. This registration number and date should be endorsed in bold on the original licence/TRA. After registration, the documents may be returned to the Importer and copies thereof may be kept in the office file for record. TRA will be registered only on the basis of Customs copy of the TRA. After registration, Customs copy and importer s copy of TRA will be defaced by the Officer. 12.5 Issuing TRAs Transfer Release Advice will be issued for utilization of a licence at any other Customs station. No TRA needs to be issued for Customs location operating of ICES Version 1.5. TRA shall be issued only for ICES Version 1 locations or non-ICES location. All TRAs against the licences registered in the system shall only be generated from system. Details for obtaining Release Advice shall be furnished in the Format given at Annexure- D . Data entry will be done by the registration clerk. A check list will be printed for verifying the correctness by the applicant and for his signatures. Correction if any will be carried out by the registration clerk.. The authorized Appraiser will thereafter verify the details from the original licence .....

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..... of reduction. Therefore, only incremental or decremental quantity or value should be entered in respect of increase or reduction. Licence status code at the time of registration will be 0 . The licence if suspended or cancelled after registration, the officer shall amend the status code to 2 , 3 and 4 for cancellation, suspension and re-instatement respectively. 12.9 Filing of Bill of Entry (i) Licence Regn. No., Regn. Date details, value and the quantity should be furnished in respective column at S. No. 39.E of the Annexure C . (ii) Unit of measurement of qty. will be same as per the licence. In case the unit of measurement in the invoice is different than the one in the license, for the purpose of debit in the licence the qty should be converted in to same unit of measurement as in the licence. For spare parts against EPCG licence S. No. of item will be 0 therefore, for availing benefits of exemption notification in respect of spares Item S. No. 0 should be indicated in column 9 of the Format indicated above. Against one item in the B/E only one licence will be debited. If the Qty /or value in the licence is not sufficient to cover whole qty /or value of a .....

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..... any amendments made in the licences/Schemes, subsequent to registration of licence, have also been entered in the system. If the Assessing officer is satisfied about the eligibility of exemption under related notification and the licence is otherwise valid to cover the goods in question, he may assess the B/E on system. The Assessing officer can remove the notification and deny the benefits of exemption. The debits of licence will automatically reverse when exemption notification is denied. The B/E after assessment will be audited by the Auditor and finally approved by the AC/DC. The procedure of assessment will be similar to DEPB imports. (iv) In respect of a manually assessed Bill of Entry details of value and quantity will be debited in the system by the Appraiser at the time of assessing a B/E a print of details of debit will be taken for records. 12.11 Printing of the Assessed B/E After assessment, the printout of assessed copy of the B/E will be taken by the importer/CHA from service center. The printout of B/E will contain duty-paying challan if duty is payable and statement of debit of licence for value/qty and debit of Bond for duty foregone in respect of each i .....

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..... ed in this Public Notice. The importer should indicate in the format the type of Bond as EO for 100% EOUs and indicate details of the Bond No. or the Central Excise certificate as the case may be. If Bond or Central Excise Certificate are not indicated it would be N i.e. NONE. The data entry operator shall enter the related option Y or C and enter the details of the Bond or the certificate as the case may be in the respective field in the system. (iii) In the field of claim of assessment normal details shall be indicated. However, in the fields of Additional information for claiming benefits under specified exemption schemes in Col.(I) the prescribed Exim code for the relevant scheme related to imports like EOU/STP/EHTP would required to be indicated. The Exim codes for the various schemes have already been notified in the Handbook of Procedures issued by DGFT. In column No. 2 the relevant applicable exemption notification No /Year .with S.No. of item in the notifications is required to be indicated against the respective item. The data entry operator shall enter the code of EOU against the field Exim code after entry of Exim code enter notification no. ../yr S. .....

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..... e system will print the Bond/BG requirements as specified by the Appraiser. (iv) In case the importer has executed the Bond with the central excise authorities, he shall produce the procurement certificate issued by the central excise officer to assessing officer along with the un-assessed copy of the Bill of Entry. Assessment of Bill of Entry would be done after due verification of all the concerned documents. System would generate a communication letter to CEX Authorities for consignment and requesting for confirmation about re-warehousing. System would enable monitoring of the movement of the goods through appropriate MIS reports. (v) After completion of the assessment the Bill of Entry shall be put to Bond queue for execution/debiting of Bond. Where any duty amount has been assessed, the duty shall be deposited in the bank as usual. Unless the Bond Officer completes the action of debiting Bond in the system, the B/E will not be available for registration for examination and out of charge. Procedure for registration of Bond/BG has been explained earlier in this Public Notice. 14. Availing Exemption under JOBBING Scheme Notification No.32/97 Cus exempts goods impor .....

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..... /E. A window will pop up for Warehouse B/E. No. date. On entry of Warehousing B/E No date, the system will capture all other details from the Warehousing Bill of Entry. Invoice S.No. as in the Warehousing B/E and against this invoice item S.No. and quantity will be entered. The system will proportionately determine the assessable value. All other details of item like the CTH, Customs Notification, CET, Excise Notification etc. as in the Warehousing B/E will be displayed by the system. Tariff Headings and the Notifications can be changed if, so required. On completion of data entry a check list will be generated by the system against the respective Job No. The importers should ensure that the details of invoice S.No, item S.No. and the quantity of the goods under ex-Bonding are correct. The check list after corrections will be returned to the service center operator for submission of the Ex-Bond B/E. On submission the system will generate the B/E No. 15.2 Assessment The B/E will be allocated by the system to the Assessing Groups on the basis of same parameters as are applicable to all other types of Bs/E. Assessment will also be made by the officers in the same manner as i .....

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..... printed at the service center and duty will be paid at the designated bank. (ii) After satisfying the requirements relating to clearance of the goods the Superintendent will give out of charge on the system. After out of charge the system will generate two copies of the Ex-Bond B/E. One copy is for the importer and the other copy will be for the Bond Section. No exchange control copy will be generated for EX-Bond B/E. The system will also print along with B/E three copies of Order of Clearance (O/C). One copy of the O/C will be retained by the Bond Section, one copy will be retained by the officer controlling the Warehouse and the last copy will be for the Warehouse Keeper. Column for number of packages in the O/C will be blank. The Superintendent giving out of charge will endorse on the hard copies of the O/C package serial numbers and number of packages to be cleared against the respective Ex-Bond B/E and will put his signature with his office seal on the copies of O/C and also on the copies of Ex-Bond B/E. 16. Bonds/Undertaking/Re-Export Bond for Conditional Exemptions Where the benefits of exemption under a notification is subject to execution of End use Bond, Undertak .....

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..... B/E only one certificate should be used. The certificate shall be utilized against all such notifications requiring Central Excise certificate. At the time of assessment the officer may verify details of goods covered by the certificate and B/E on the basis of original certificate retained in the group. A print out of statement of items assessed on the basis of certificate can be obtained for reference to concerned Central Excise authority. 18. Certificates from Other Authorities Certain notifications require certificates for eligibility of exemption from various other organizations like Ministry of External Affairs, Defence etc. Such certificates can be entered in the system under the category of Misc. Certificates = MC . The following details will be entered; MC number and date Issuing authority and address. Such certificates can be viewed by Assessing Officer and also will be printed on the B/E for verification in the Shed/Docks. 19 Closure of Bond/Undertaking The Bond or undertaking would be closed by the AC/DC. When the conditions of the Bond/undertaking are complied with, the AC/DC will enter the Bond No., the system will display all the Bs/E and relate .....

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..... he following: - Registration of Bonds/undertakings, Bank Guarantees, Sureties - Debit and Credit of Bonds for EDI B/Es and Manual B/Es - Closure of Bonds, Bank Guarantees - Enhancements - Generating data for Issue of recovery notices - Generating data for Issue of reminders - Generation of MIS reports (ii) The Revolving/continuity and the Specific Bonds will be registered and maintained in the Bond Section. The Appraising Officer determines the Bond requirement. The type and the amount of Bond are decided by the Appraising Officer and are approved by the Assistant Commissioner. However system will assist in determining the type of Bond/BG and value. Bond requirement details will be printed on the BE after the assessment. The details include the type of Bond, amount and the Bank Guarantee. The Bonds will be managed centrally by Bond/BG Section. 21.2 Registration of Bond (i) The Bond module provides for .....

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..... communicated to the importer for their future reference. Bond Registration Number System would maintain a single running Serial No. for all types of Bonds. The Bond No. need not be initialized every year. Bond No. to start with Serial No.100001. 21.3 Processing of Bill of Entry (with Bond) (i) Declaration in the Service Center (a) In case the importer has already registered a Continuity Bond with the Bond Cell, he has to specify the type of Bond and Registration Number in the Service Centre declaration. However, the Bond value and BG amount is determined by the Appraising Officer. If Continuity Bond is not there, no declaration (Bond) needs to be given in the Service Centre. Bond details will be printed on the Checklist. (b) In case of EOU Bond already submitted at the Central Excise Commissionerate/Office, the Certificate Number has to be provided. If Certificate Number is declared, EOU Bond is not required. (ii) Appraising The Appraising Officer has the option to ask for Bond as condition of assessment. The following type of Bonds can be opted: Provisional Duty Bond General Test Bond End Use Bond/Undertaking Transit Provisional Duty Bond - P .....

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..... orter in the B/E. (f) Others. (Specify) Bond Ledger Format B/E No. B/E Date Type of Document (manual or EDI) Debit Amount (Specified by AO) Credit amount Date of debit/credit Officer Id. (v) Debiting of the Bond for manual Bill of Entry: (a) Continuity or a specific Bond shall be accepted registered in the system. A continuity Bond registered in the system can be utilized in respect of electronic as well as manual bills of entry. For debiting manual Bill of Entry, the Bond officer shall select the option of MBE-debit and enter the details of the manual Bill of Entry and amount of Bond/BG etc. After debiting, a debit slip will be generated which can be printed one copy of slip should be attached with the B/E and other copy given to the importer. In respect of Bills of Entry where processing has not yet been automated, it would still be possible under the aforesaid Bond Management System to register the Bond in the system and utilize it against a manually processed Bill of entry as per procedure indicated above in respect of a continuity/revolving Bond. (b) Consequent upon the introduction of the Bond Management System, changes are being propo .....

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..... gistered in the shed/docks for examination out of charge till the duty is paid and the Bond and BG as specified has been debited. The details of Bond debit or the Bond requirements shall be printed on the provisionally assessed B/E. Details of a debited Bond will also be printed on the Importer s copy and Exchange control copy of B/E. (b) In case any Cash deposit is required to be taken, the Appraiser can specify the amount of Cash deposit, the Challan for Cash deposit will also be printed with the assessed copy of B/E which will also be deposited with the designated bank like the duty and fine/penalty. 22. High Sea Sales Consignments (i) This category would cover all imports where the goods have been transferred by the original importer by sale or otherwise before their clearance from Customs. The EDI system has been designed to provide for both the options namely, the ultimate buyer paying a percentage loading over the invoice price or a fixed sum in addition to the invoice price based on the high sea sale agreement and the local invoice to arrive at the final assessable value. (ii) If the goods have been purchased on High Seas Sales basis, option `Y should be indi .....

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..... additional duty under Section 3 of CTA, 1975 with reference to the retail sale price declared on the article the relevant column should be filled(Y/N). If yes following particulars should be furnished. Invoice S No Item Sl No. Description No. of Units Retail Sale Price -------------- No.------- (with specifications) ----------- Rs.Per unit (iii) The importers/CHAs would be required to declare the retail sale price of the items to which the provisions of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act. 1976 or any other law in this behalf applies and which are notified under a notification issued under Section 4A of the Central Excise Act. 1944. It would be advisable to specify these details at Serial No. .. (Claim of assessment)for each pack size of the imported item. For example if tooth paste is imported in sizes of 50 gms., 100 gms. And 150 gms. it is suggested that these be noted as three separate entries in the aforesaid Serial No. .. (Claim to assessment) since they would be having three .....

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..... py and exchange control copy (duplicate and triplicate) of B/E that the B/E has been assessed provisionally due to SVB issue and the details of Revenue Deposit paid for that Bill of Entry. 24.2 Post clearance: After final order is given by the Special Valuation Branch, the final assessment shall be carried out manually. 25. Anti-Dumping Duty (i) Notification Directory A directory of the notifications issued by the Central Government notifying the rates of anti-dumping duty has been created in the system. Notifications issued do not have a defined structure; therefore, these notifications have been re-structured in tabulated form providing a unique S.No. of an item and a unique S.No. of producer/exporter of goods from a specified country. Due to re-structuring of the notifications into a defined format the S.Nos. at which the goods/country/producer/exporter is appearing in the notification of the ministry may differ in the notification directory. Therefore, the directory may be carefully studied to identify the correct S.No. of the item and producer/export for applying the relevant rate of duty. The notification directory is available at www.cbec.gov.in and www.icegat .....

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..... ity whereas in the case of anti-dumping duty it will be rate of duty. The rates of value are applicable to imports from all countries and all suppliers in respect of goods specified therein, the S.No. of item in the notification and system directory is the same. (ii) Filing of Bill of Entry The importers are required to declare the Tariff value notification number and S.No. of item in the notification applicable to the goods in question. For the purpose of data entry in the system, the details of Tariff Value should be indicated in Column (3) of the Table 39B (Classification Details) of Appendix-A the Format for Declaration at Service Centre for Data Entry. The extract of the Table is indicated below. 39B. Classification Details (1) Invoice Serial Number (2) Actual Invoice Number (3)Classification Details Item No. RITC 8 digit CTH ANotfn IS No PS No QTY T Notifn No IS No Qty Exemp. Notf Yr Sl No. CTH Notfn Sl No 1 .....

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..... CEGAT, past precedent regarding classification valuation etc. 30. Grievance Handling The Assistant Commissioner/Deputy Commissioner of Customs, may be approached by importers or their CHAs for settlement of any problems faced at any stage of the import clearance. Regarding Helpdesk facilities the following may be noted: a) ICEGATE users would continue to interact with the Helpdesk at 011-23379020 and 011-23370133 or through icegatehelpdesk@icegate.gov.in. This Helpdesk is managed by M/s Wipro. b) Users requiring any other clarifications regarding the new application may interact with the toll-free Helpdesk number 18002662232 or at si.helpdesk@icegate.gov.in This Helpdesk is managed by TCS. c) Regarding hardware issues the users may contact 18004254994 or mail to nightdesk.bangalore@hp.com this is managed by the H.P. d) Users may also directly contact Alternate System Manager for the site as detailed below, in case of any difficulty: (i) Sh. Vishal Pal Singh, Assistant Commissioner- ICD-Dashrath Phone : (0265) 224 2160, Mobile : 97142 26828. (Shashi Bhushan Singh) Commissioner - Circular - Trade Notice - Public Notice - Instructions - Office orders .....

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