TMI BlogLaunch of Indian Customs EDI System - (ICES — 1.5) for Imports and Exports, at ICD Kheda, [IN KHD 6] District-Dhar, Madhya PradeshX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ) vide Notification No.04/2009-Cus.(N.T.) Dated 06.01.2009 as amended by corrigendum dated 20th January2009 issued by Central Board of Excise and Customs under Section 8(a) of the Customs Act, 1962. Posts with effect from the date(s) of actual deployment of the officer(s) for a period of one year initially- Grade Dy./Asst. Commissioner Superintendent /Appraiser Inspect or EA/TA Havaldar/ Head Havaldar (Gr. D) Total No. of Post(s) 1 1 1 - - 03 All other required formalities including pre-production have been completed successfully. 1.1. As part of the implementation of CBEC's IT Consolidation Project, the EDI operations at ICD Kheda, Dhar (Distt) would be on ICES 1.5 application, which is the centralized version of the ICES 1.0 application, earlier implemented on standalone servers at major Custo ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... codes for filing the Bill of Entry. However, if an importer does not fall in the exempted category and also does not hold specific IE Code, he should use the Code 0100000053 for personal effects and 0100000001 for all other imports. In such cases, the Bill of Entry shall automatically appear on the computer screen of the concerned Assistant / Deputy Commissioner for online approval. 1.2 Registration of Customs Broker in ICES Customs Brokers are required to register their details in the ICES at the respective Custom Houses from where they have been licensed. If they intend to operate at other stations, the intimation of the same should be registered in the ICES at the respective stations. In case the Custom House from where the Customs Broker has been licensed is not yet brought under ICES, such Customs Brokers should approach the Customs authorities indicated in the enclosed chart against respective Custom Houses. No re-registration is required in case the agency is already registered at any existing Customs location where ICESl.5 is operational. (List of Custom Houses for Customs Broker registration attached as Appendix I and format for registrati ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... me 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 6. 1.8 Port Codes: All the ports of the world have been codified by United Nation and allotted UN LOCODEs. Appropriate port code should only be indicated wherever reference to the 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/tocode/) 1.9 Registration of DGFT Licenses If the imports are against any of the DGFT Exim Licenses, such license should be first registered in the ICES and the Registration No. should be indicated against each item of goods in the Bill of Entry. No separate registration shall be required for those licenses which are received by Customs from DGFT online. Such licenses shall automatically be registered in ICES and can be utilized for debit against a Bill of Entry after approval by Proper office ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 77; 1 0 (v) Amendment fee - Each Additional block of five items: ₹ 10 (vi) Amendment fee - Other documents: ₹ 10. (vii) Printing Check list: ₹ 10 Note 1 :- The above charges are excluding Service Tax. The vendor shall collect the service tax from trade at the prevailing rates and shall make the payment of the Service Tax to the Govt. exchequer. Note 2:- The above charges include data entry of the documents, check list printing and print out of the assessed document and out charge. The check list will be provided free of charge till they are certified to be free of mistake by the customer. However, in cases where the customer wants to incorporate corrections in the original declarations provided by him, check list will be provided at an additional cost of ₹ 10. Any check list in respect of remote filing of the Bill of Entry will cost ₹ 10. 2. Filing of IGM/SIGM/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 thro ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ble, ACS role has option (Goods Registration - Message Not Received) to allow Goods Registration in such exceptional cases. The Importer or the Customs Broker, as the case may be, can file electronic Bill of Entry by data entry at the service centre operator or by transmitting the details in specified file format through ICEGATE from his premises. 3.1 Filing through Service Centre (i) The Customs Broker/Importer should furnish information in 'Annexure C' and present the same to the service centre operator along with copy(ies) of import invoice and packing list. Details of information in Annexure 'C' should be correct, complete and legible. Incorrect and invalid entries may get rejected on entry of data. The Service center shall accept the declarations in Annexure C during the working hours of Port. The system would accept data entry of Annexure 'C' only if it finds that the SMTP No. and Bill of Lading matches the corresponding line number of the IGM. The system will accept only one declaration against a line number. If the declaration is not accepted, the Customs Broker/ importer should verify the particulars. ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... . and generate a Check List which is a draft Bill of Entry. The service centre operator shall print a copy of the Check List and hand over the same to the Customs Broker/Importer. The Customs Broker/Importer shall check the correctness of the data entered in the system. If any error is noticed, the error shall be circled in bold ink and correct detail should be written. The corrected check list duly signed by the Customs Broker/Importer should be handed over to the service centre operator for entry of corrected data. The Operator shall make corrections in the corresponding data and hand over the revised checklist to the Customs Broker/Importer for reconfirmation. This process would be repeated till the Customs Broker/Importer signs a clean checklist in token of correctness of the entered data. (ix) The Operator shall submit the authenticated electronic checklist to the system. The system will then generate a B/E. No., which would be endorsed on the printed checklist and returned to the Customs Broker/Importer. The Bill of Entry No. shall be in a running serial number of all the Custom Houses operating on consolidated ICES 1.5. The Bill of Entry Numeric No. shall be suf ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ms officers will be able to identify on the system whether a particular electronic document has been filed after signing with Digital Signature Certificate or not; (vi) On successful submission of data from their premises the ICES will generate Bill of Entry Number and return message of Bill of Entry No. If invalid data is entered an error message shall be generated and no B.E. No. shall be generated. In case of remote filing of Bill of Entry the Customs broker /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. Remote EDI filing software from NIC website link which has been provided at ICEGATE website. Software of NIC is free of charge. (vii) The instructions specified in 3.1 (iii) to (vii) may be kept in mind while Filing in RES software too. 3.3 Self Assessment The bill of entry shall be deemed to have been filed and self-assessment of duty completed when, after entry of the electronic declaration in the Indian Customs Electronic Data ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... orter. Therefore, processing of Bills of Entry will be taken up by the appraising officer only on receipt of the required documents. (iv) Movement of Bills of Entry from one officer to another takes place automatically in a predetermined workflow basis depending on roles and jurisdiction assigned to them. During the processing of Bill of Entry, the officer concerned may raise Query to the importer for further clarification/information. The Query on approval by the concerned AC/DC shall be transmitted to the importer for online reply. Such a Bill of Entry on which query has been raised, is automatically pulled out of assessment queue till reply online/through service center is received from the importer. 4.1 RMS facilitation. Facilitation of Bills of Entry in respect of certain goods using RMS for faster clearance of such goods Bills of Entry in respect of the items under RMS facilitation would be assessed for risk by the System immediately on their submission and a print out of the assessed Bill of Entry along with 3 copies of TR-6 challans will be made available to the Customs Brokers/ Importers for payment of duty and gettin ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... t check Bill of Entry copy shall be printed. Customs Broker/ importer gets a copy of First Check B/E printed with 'Examination Order' at the 'Service Centre' or in his office, as the case may be. (ii) After the examination is completed, the Import Shed Examiner/Inspector and Appraiser/Superintendent shall write the examination report on the first check copy of the Bill of Entry (Hard Copy of B/E) and enter the examination report in the system. The Shed Appraiser/Superintendent shall transfer the B/E to the Appraising Group. The Customs Broker/Importer shall present the first check copy of the Bill of Entry on which examination report has been written along with the original invoice and other import documents necessary for assessment to the concerned Group Appraiser/Superintendent. The Assessing Officer, if satisfied, shall complete the assessment of B/E in the system. After assessment, the Bill of Entry shall move in the system as in the case of second check assessment. The Customs Broker/lmporter shall take print of assessed copy of the Bill of Entry and TR-6 challan and shall deposit duty amount with the designated bank. 4.4 Audit ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Refer CBEC Circular 24/2012 dated 5th September 2012, regarding making E-payment of Customs duty mandatory. 5.2 Shipping Lines/Consol Agents in co-operation with Custodians shall provide the Delivery Order electronically in mutually agreed formats and they are not required to visit either of the offices. Secure electronic transmission of Delivery order between shipping lines/consol agents and the custodian will enhance the security and transparency of the cargo as well as expedite the clearance of the cargo. Please refer CBEC Circular No. 24/2015 dated 14/10/2015 regarding Improving Ease of Doing Business - Issuance of Electronic Delivery Orders. 6. Examination of Goods 6.1 After examination order in the case of First Check Bill of Entry, after assessment in the case of duty free import where duty assessed is zero and after payment of duty assessed with interest(if any) in case of second check Bill of Entry, the Bill of Entry shall move to the Examination section for goods registration. (i) The Customs Broker/Importer shall present the documents, as per the list below, (the documents should be arranged in a file cover i ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... llowed 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 the Import Shed Appraiser/Supdt for out of charge order. 6.3 All the above documents, except original License, will be retained by the 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 examination of the goods, if the Shed Appraiser/ Superintendent are satisfied that the requirement of Section 47 of the Custom Act, 1962 have been complied with, he shall give 'Out of Charge for the Bill of Entry on system. 6.6 After the out of charge order, the system will generate print of Importer's copy and Exchange Control copy of the Bill or Entry along with 3 copies of Order of Clearance. Print Of the same shall be obtained f ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... may seek amendment of the Bill of Entry through the Service Centre after obtaining the approval of the concerned group AC/DC. 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 copies and Exchange Control copies of the Bill of Entry shall be retained by the System Manager in a file. After fresh Out of Charge Order, new prints of the copies of Bill of Entry shall be given. 9. Re-assessment Any time after assessment and before Out of Charge Order, a Bill of Entry can be recalled and reassessed and put to r ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... sis of the 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 license in question is required to be registered in the import system. The officer designated by the Asstt./Dy. Commissioner to register the DEPB in the system shall ensure that verification of DEPB with reference to the exports on the basis of which DEPB is issued by DGFT has been done prior to its registration in imports. (ii) All importers/CHAs are advised to ensure that their IEC details with PAN have been transmitted by DGFT to the Customs at the time of obtaining the DEPB ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... wing 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 wilt 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 the option for issue of TR.A in the System. The System shall generate three copies of the Release Advice titledas: 1. Customs copy for port of issue (office copy), 2. Customs copy for port of clearance and 3. Importer's copy. (iv) The office copy for po ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... number of item in the license list) and 7 (quantity for license debit) are not required to be filled in for DEPB Bs/E. (iv) If the basic Customs duty and the additional Customs duty debit available to the license 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/Customs Brokers 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/ Customs Brokers 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. ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... First Schedule to Customs Tariff Act, 1975 and additional duty leviable under Section 3 of Customs Tariff Act, 1975 are claimed, the sum of basic duty and additional duty amount will be debited to the duty credit in DEPB. The 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 the 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 proc ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... f license and debits will be made by system when electronic B/E is processed, RA is issued, manual B/E is debited or reduction is made by amendments. To avoid any inconsistency and invalidity, the system will sum the value of all items and compare with the face value of the license. If the sum is greater than face value of license, 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 license holders, therefore, should check these details in their licenses and ensure that the same are correct before presenting the license for registration. The licenses with incorrect details will be rejected by the system and cannot be used for availing exemption from duty and clearance of goods. Such licenses should be corrected from the concerned DGFT office before presenting to Customs. (ii) In pursuance of CBEC's Circular No. 11/2007 dated 13th February, 2007 and Circular No. 3/2009 dated 2()th January, 2009 issued from F. No. 605/210/2005-DBK and F. No. 605/70/2008-DBK respectively, a procedure for online transmission ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ocation shall be registered like a license for the portion of value and quantity covered in a TRA. Only fresh TRAs will be registered in the EDI System. Partially utilized TRAs will continue to be handled manually. (iii) After successful entry of details, a checklist will be printed by the service centre operator and given to the RA holder for confirming the correctness of the data entered in the system. Service center operator will make the correction, if any, and will return the same to the RA holder. 12.4 Submission of License/TRA in the system The license/ TRA holder will present the check list of the license/TRA along with the original documents to the proper officer. The officer will compare the details entered in the system with the original license/TRA. After satisfying himself with its correctness, Officer will submit the license in the system on the basis of the job number of the check list. The system will generate a license Registration. No. This registration number and date should be endorsed in bold on the original license/TRA. After registration, the documents may be returned to the Importer and copies thereof may be kept in t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... spares will be within the total face value of the license, i.e., the sum of value of all items including the value of spares imported against EPCG license will not exceed the total face value of the license. (ii) No credit of value will be given for spares in case of illipurls against TRA, It may be noted that TRA is required to be obtained for spare parts also. In case of first import, no TRA will be admissible for spares. 12.8 Amendment of license after registration Amendment in the license data after registration can only be made by the authorized officer. If the amount of value and quantity sought to be reduced is less than the unutilized balance available in the license, amendments for reduction of value and quantity will not be pennitted by the system. The system will give credit to quantity or value in the case of increase and will debit the quantity or value in the case of reduction. Therefore, only incremental or decremental quantity or value should be entered in respect of increase or reduction. License status code at the time of registration will be '0'. The license, if suspended or cancelled after registration, the office ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... : Group Name Exim Scheme Codes Schemes 7A 13, 14, 20 7B DEPB 7D DEEC Advance authorisation 7G EPCG 7H 22 to 28 (Except 26), 35, 36, 37 Chapter 3 schemes 7I DFIA(26) 7N 08-09 7R DFRC 7U EOU (ii) All the Bs/E in respect of schemes for which no sub-group is created will be dealt by Group (iii) The Customs Broker / Importer should present the check list obtained after submission of the B/E to the Appraiser along with all the requ ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... riculture I. D -EOU- Granite l E - EOU- gems and jewellery I F - EOU- Others (specify) II - STP III - EHTP 2. EOU Approval No. 3. Approving Authority 4. Approval date 5. Valid till 6. Importer Exporter Code (IEC) 7. IEC Branch Code. 8. ECC (Assessee's Excise Control Code) 9. Central Excise office location code Commissionerate Division Range Separate Registration would need to be made for each factory (based on the various branch codes of the IEC) in case a 100% EOU has more than one factory. 13.2 Filing of Bill of Entry Entry of Bond details (i) In the Annexure 'C' format for declaration for data entry, S. No. 18 has been added to capture the details of registration of various Bonds including the Bond for 100%EOUs. (ii) For a Bill of Entry for imports by 100% EOU indicate: - Y for Bond No......... if Bond is already executed with Customs at the point of import; 'C' C. Ex. Certificate N ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Entry shall be directed to Group VII for assessment. An un-assessed copy of the Bill of Entry, after submission, shall be taken by the importers. 13.3 Appraising of EOU B/E. (i) The Importer /Customs Broker shall present the un-assessed Bill of Entry along with the Bonds / certificate and other documents supporting the claims of assessment under EOU to the designated Appraiser / Supdt. for making assessment. The Appraiser shall recall the relevant Bill of Entry on the screen and complete the assessment on the system after scrutiny of the documents. The system will display EOU Bond details or Central Excise certificate. The appraiser will also be able to view the details of EOU approvals. (ii) In case the importer has already executed the Bond and it is registered in the system, the system will display the amount debited in the Bond which is equal to the duty foregone. If the appraiser desires to change the amount for debiting the Bond, he can select through change option and change the amount for the Bond debit BG. Where the BG is not required, the amount in the field of BG should be entered as 0 (Zero).The appraiser has the option of re ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... type JO will be indicated in the format for data entry, the Scheme code will be 20 and the exemption notification will be 032/97 item S.NO. 1. On submission, print of an un-assessed copy of the B/E will be taken and presented to the designated Appraiser along with all the requisite documents. The Appraiser will recall the B/E on screen for assessment. Appraiser will be able to delete the notification to deny the exemption if so warranted, specify the Bond/BG requirements and modify the Bond/BG amounts. The B/E will be audited by the Auditor and processed by the AC/DC. Details of notification, Bond/BG debits will be printed on the respective copies of the B/E. The procedure for execution and maintenance of Bond/BG in the system will be like any other Bond. 14A: Availing Exemption under Chapter 3 Schemes: The scrips issued under chapter 3 of the FTP 2015-2020 would follow registration as prescribed in para 12. 1(ii). The scrips issued under older FTP would follow registration prescribed in para 12. 1(i). The other applicable procedures as prescribed in FTP and Customs notifications, circulars etc would be same as detailed in para 11 12, wherever applic ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 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 the 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 in the case of any other type of Bs/E. Where a Warehouse B/E has been assessed provisionally, the Ex-Bond B/E will also be assessed provisionally and no separate PD Bond will be required. However, in case of availing of exemption requiring Bond, same would need to be debited as in the case of any Home Consumption B/E. 15.3 Debiting of Bond After obtaining the print out from Service Centre, the Importer /Customs Broker will get the Bond debited from Bond Section and get suitable endorsement on the B/E with respect to debit of Bond amount and other details. 15.4 Printing of Assessed B/E a ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 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. d) In terms of Board's Circular no. 47/2002 dated 29.07.2002, payment of interest before extension of warehousing period can be captured in the system. Benefit of any interim interest so paid will be adjusted in the last Ex- Bond BE related to that particular warehouse BE. 16. Bonds / Undertaking/ Re-Export Bond for Conditional Exemptions Where the benefits of exemption under a notification are subject to execution of End use Bond, Undertaking or Re-export Bond, it would be necessary to register the respective type of Bond in the system before filing of the B/E. The Bond will be registered by the importers specifically for a notification. Details of th ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... fications requiring Central Excise certificate. At the time of assessment, the officer may verify the details of goods covered by the certificate and B/E on the basis of original certificate retained in the group. A print out of the statement of items assessed on the basis of certificate can be obtained for reference to the concerned Central Excise authority. 18. Certificates/NOC from other Authorities- Indian Customs Single Window Project: Importers shall electronically file the customs clearance documents at a single point only with the Customs. The permission required, if any, from other regulating agencies will be obtained online without importers/Customs brokers having to separately approach these agencies. The requisite permissions/NOC/Test Reports will be obtained through Indian Customs Single Window Project. The same will be obtained through message exchange with FSSAI/DPPQ S (as per Circular No. 09/2015 dated 31/03/2015), NOC on ICES for use by Drug Controller/Animal Quarantine/Wild Life Crime Control Bureau and Lab Module in ICES for use by CRCL, Textile Committee and other agencies. Please refer to Circular No. 03/2016 dated 03/02 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... of duty. 40 B. 1 of Annexure C may be filled up accordingly. (ii) In case quantity of goods in the invoice is in Kgs. as declared in Table 'A' under 'Details of Description of Items', col. (3) in the table B1 of Annexure C should be left blank and indicate only qty in SQM in col. (4) above. Similarly, if the invoice qty. is SQM then indicate only qty. in Kgs. in col. (3) and col. (4) be left blank. (iii) However, if the qty. in the invoice is in units of measurement other than Kgs. or SQM, in that case the qty. in Kgs. and SQM should be indicated in columns (3) (4) respectively. 21 Bond Management System And Processing Of Bills Of Entry Relating To Goods 21.1 Bond Management System. (i) ICES contains centralized Bond Section, which will be responsible for the maintenance of documents related to Bonds, Bank Guarantees and Undertakings. The rn 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 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... , the job shall be forwarded to designated AC/DC to accept the Bond. The importer shall present the original Bond documents to the respective designated AC / DC for acceptance. (iii) The AC/DC shall observe all the instructions regarding acceptance of Bond issued by the Board / Commissionerate from time to time after satisfying that the documents submitted are in order acceptable. The AC/DC shall retrieve the Bond details on screen by entering the job no., view the entries made in the system. If the information in the system match with the documents conditions for acceptance of the Bonds are satisfied, the AC / DC may accept the Bond in the system. The AC/DC can also make corrections in the system if so required. After acceptance of the Bond by AC / DC, the Bond documents shall be taken by the Bond officer / Bond clerk. The Bond officer/ Bond clerk after receipt of the Bond / BG / Security, etc., shall enter in the system location of Bond storage where the Bond documents have to be physically stored. At this stage, the system will generate the Bond registration number. This registration number has to be endorsed on the original documents and also communicated to th ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... of Entry in question before goods registration in the Shed. If the Bond has not been executed against the Bill of Entry, the goods registration cannot be done. The Importer has to give a written request to AC/DC for debiting the Bond against a B/E. The importer shall specify the Bond Registration No., B/E No. and Date. The AC (Bond) has to retrieve the Bond and debit the Bond and BG. AC/DC Bond has the option to view the B/E. Before debiting, the system will pose the query Whether the language of the Bond meets the legal requirement of the assessment of the B/E . If the amount to be debited is more than the credit balance in the Bond and BG Ledgers, the system will not allow debit and the AC/DC has to raise a query to the Importer for filing fresh Bond/BG. The system will not allow goods registration and out of charge, if the debit entries not made against the B/E in the Bond and BG Ledgers. Bond re-credits AC/DC has the option to re-credit value after finalization of assessment. Following entries will be made in the Bond and BG ledgers; -Date of credit -B/E No. and Date -Amount credited ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... rehousing Bill of Entry, the type of Bill of Entry should be indicated as 'W'. The importer may indicate the Bond details if a continuity Bond has already been executed in the same manner as has been explained in respect of 100% EOU. The processing of warehousing Bill of Entry shall continue to be as at present in the respective groups on first come first serve basis. (b) The system at the time of assessment of a Warehousing B/E shall display before the Appraiser, the requirement of Bond equal to double the amount of duty payable. The appraiser at the time of the assessment can change the Bond/BG amounts. Where the Bond details have been entered at the time of data entry, the same shall be displayed by the system debit details will be printed on the Bill of Entry. Where Bond has not been debited at the time of data entry of B/E, Bond requirement shall be on the Bill of Entry. (c) The Bond shall be registered with the designated Bond Officer and debited in respect of a B/E. Unless the Bond is debited in the system, Bill of Entry cannot be registered for examination out of charge at the shed / docks. (viii) Provisional ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ode of the original importers, i.e., Seller of goods on high seas, should be indicated. In the field of invoice details after the field of currency, new fields for indicating the costs incurred over and above the invoice value for purchasing goods on high sea sale have been added. Where such expenses are incurred, (whether actually paid or payable) as a percentage of invoice value, the percentage rate should be indicated in the field Rate . Where a fixed amount is paid or payable over the invoice value such amount should be indicated against the field 'amount' and shall be in Indian Rupees. The additional amount would get distributed proportionately amongst the various items in the invoice for determination of assessable value. In case goods relate to more than one invoices, the High Seas sales charges should be indicated against each invoice, proportionate to the value of goods in the invoice. The system shall add these charges to the CIF value of the goods for computation of assessable value for the purpose of levy of duty. (iii) The data entry operator at the Service Center shall enter these details in the relevant field in the system. These details will be ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... is suggested that these be noted as three separate entries in the aforesaid Serial No.(Claim to assessment) since they would be having three separate retail prices. Each article, which has different characters, specification including the difference in size of packing should be declared as separate items in the Bill of Entry with a separate unit retail sale price. (iv) The retail sale price would have to be indicated in Rupees and not in any foreign currency and should conform to the provisions of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 which came into effect from 01.04.2011,the Rules made there under or any other law in this behalf. Quantum of abatement need not be declared since the system would apply the said reduction with reference to the Central Excise Tariff Heading. Details of such items for which Retail Sale Price has been declared may be carefully verified by the Importers/Customs Brokers before handing over the check list to the Service Centre Operator for submission of the Bill of Entry. It may also be ensured that all the articles covered in the invoice are carefully checked and Retail Sale Price declared in respect of all such articles, which require declaration of ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... al Bills of entry pending there for finalization can be finalized at the earliest. In case importers declare in Annexure 2 SVB inquiries shall be initiated in pursuance of Circular No. 5/2016 dated 09/02/2016 by serving upon the importers questionnaire at Annexure A and B attached to the said Circular no. 05/2016. If Extra Duty Deposit (EDD) is being obtained in such cases the same shall be reviewed and the sequence provided in para 3.2 of the said Circular No. 05/2016. All SVB investigations (other than renewal) where EDD is being obtained are required to be reviewed in terms of the said para 3.2 of Circular no. 5/2016. In cases where the importers have provided all the requisite documents, EDD should be dispensed forthwith. In cases where EDD is enhanced to 5%, due to non-submission of the documents/information by the importers, for any SVB inquiry the immediate recourse to the appropriate provisions of the Customs Act will be taken by Commissioner for obtaining the documents and dispense the EDD accordingly. 25. Anti-Dumping Duty (i) Notification Directory A directory of the notifications issued by the Central Government no ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... d, if different from quantity declared in the invoice details. (iii) After entry of CTH, the data entry operator shall enter the details of Anti-dumping notification as indicated above. The rate of anti-dumping duty would be taken by the system from the directory. If the unit of measurement of quantity of goods declared in the invoice details is different than the unit of measurement on which the anti-dumping duty is applicable, the quantity in such unit of measurement on the basis of which, the anti-dumping duty is leviable has also to be declared for computation of duty amount. The rate and amount of anti-dumping duty will be printed on the check list and copies of Bills of Entry. 26. Tariff Value (i) Notification Directory Directory for Tariff Values has been created in the system as per notification number 036/2001-Customs (NT) dated 3.8.2001, as amended. Contents of the directory are similar to anti-dumping duty directory. The amount indicated in the same column will be rate of Tariff Value per unit of measurement of quantity whereas in the case of anti-dumping duty it will be rate of duty. The rates of value are applicab ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... assessable value based on tariff value shall be added. In case the importer has not declared the Tariff value, the Appraiser at the time of assessment will get a systems alert for tariff value. The Appraiser will have the option to select the tariff value and also change the S. No. of the Tariff value if incorrectly declared by the importers. The rate of Tariff value will be printed on the check list as well as on the copies of Bill of Entry. 28. Levy of Addl. Duty For Non-Excisable Goods In respect of goods not leviable to Central Excise Duty under the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 but liable to Excise Duties under other Central Acts (such as Medicinal and Toilet Preparation Act, 1955) or liable to Additional Duty under Section 3(1) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, codes have been given to enable the documents for such goods to be processed on the System. A list of such codes is given in Annexure 'E' for filing Column 39(B) (5) - CETH CODE. 29. General Information With a view to minimizing the number of queries at the time of assessment and to improve the quality of assessment, it has been decided to capture the fo ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 's website may be accessed at http://www.dgft.delhi.nic.in) 3.2 Registration of Custom House Agents (Customs Broker) in ICES: Every Customs Broker is required to register his details in ICES for enabling him to submit documents in the system. In case the Custom House from where the Customs Broker has been licensed is not an existing EDI location in ICES 1.0, such Customs Broker should immediately get themselves registered at any of the Customs locations as per list enclosed at Appendix 1. The format for registration is at Appendix 2. 3.3 Registration of Shipping lines/Agents, Consol Agents: EGM shall be filed electronically by the Shipping Lines/Agents at the Gateway Ports. Before filing EGM, the Shipping Lines/Agents should register themselves in the ICES at any of the Custom Stations where ICES 1.0 is operational. They would be required to furnish information as per Appendix 3. No re-registration is required in case the agency is already registered at any existing Customs location where ICES 1.5 is operational. 3.4 Registration of Bank Account with Authorized Dealer of Foreign Exchange: Except for NFEI Shipping Bills, the account number ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ods, the appropriate Code indicated against the respective measurement in the list appended with this Public Notice must be used in the Shipping Bill / EGM as the case may be. Reference is also invited to the CBEC Circular no. 26/2013-Customs, dated 19/07/2013, where adherence to Standard Unit Quantity Codes, as prescribed in the Customs Tariff Act, has been prescribed. Appendix 4 3.9 Currency Codes: For indicating value of goods, freight, insurance, commission, etc., only the relevant codes for the respective currencies in the list of currency codes appended with this Public Notice have to be used. Use of any incorrect code will result in incorrect conversion of the currency into Indian Rupees. Appendix 5 3.10 Country Codes: Wherever in the Shipping Bill / EGM, reference is required to be made to the name of the country, the appropriate Code of the country as indicated in the list of country codes appended to this Public Notice have to be used. Appendix 6 3.11 Port Codes: An appropriate port code must be indicated wherever reference to port name is required to be made in a Shipping Bill /EGM. The Correct code may be obtained from the respect ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... l respects so that process of clearance of export is smooth. 4.3 Data entry of Shipping Bills would be done at the Service Centers on payment of charges. Various charges for printing and data entry excluding Service Tax are given in para 1.11 above which shall be subject to revision from time to time. 4.4 The Service Centre operators shall carefully enter the data on the basis of declarations (Duly filled forms of Annexure A) made by the Customs Broker/Exporters. After completion of data entry, a checklist of the data entered by the operator will be printed by the Data Entry Operator and handed over to the Exporters/Customs Broker for confirming the correctness of the electronic declaration. The Customs Broker/Exporter will make corrections, if any, in the checklist and return the same to the operator duly signed. The operator shall make the corresponding corrections in the data and shall submit the Shipping Bill. The operator shall not make any amendment after generation of the checklist and before submission in the system unless the corrections made by the Customs Broker/Exporters are clearly indicated on the checklist against the respective fields and a ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ing done currently. (iv) On receiving the digitally signed documents the ICEGATE server side verifier shall verify the user's credentials, validity of certificate, Certifying Authorities credentials, Public Key, Certificate Revocation List (CRL) status and the result of authentication and integrate the data into ICES database. The data so integrated will also have a flag to indicate that the submitted document was digitally signed. (v) The Customs officers will be able to identify on the system whether a particular electronic document has been filed after signing with Digital Signature Certificate or they can download Remote EDI filing software from NIC website link which has been provided at ICEGATE website. Software of NIC is free of charge.. 4.9 The validity of the Shipping Bill in EDI System is fifteen days only. Therefore, if the export goods are not registered within 15 days from the date of Shipping Bill, the Shipping Bill shall lapse and has to be filed again in the system. 5. PROCEDURE FOR GR-I 5.1 As per the procedure in EDI, there would be no GR-I nor SDF. Only in the case Of Shipping Bills processed ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... on - First Phase: When the RMS facility is launched in this site, following would be the procedure. (i) Movement of Shipping Bills: All the Shipping Bills filed electronically in ICES will be perused and processed by RMS on submission and after every amendment (s). The output of RMS processing will be communicated to ICES. The RMS output will determine the movement/ routing of Shipping Bills in ICES. The Shipping Bill may be sent for Assessment and Examination, Assessment only or Examination only depending upon the interdictions by the RMS tools. If a bill is not interdicted by any of the RMS tools, such facilitated bill will move directly to goods registration after payment of export duty/ cess (if any). All the Shipping Bills have to undergo goods registration before giving LEO. The LEO can be given only after verifying the compliance with the applicable Compulsory Compliance Requirements (CCRs). The system is designed in such a manner that, owing to some technical reasons if the RMS (Export) fails to provide output to ICES (Export) or RMS output is not received at ICES (Export) end in time, the existing norms of assessment and examinatio ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ase containing these instructions as comprehensive as possible, certain requirements might have escaped notice. These are mandatory requirements under the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) and other Allied Acts which must be fulfilled before allowing clearance. In case it comes to the notice of any officer that a specific requirement is not listed, then he shall communicate the same immediately to the local Risk Manager, who in turn will inform the Risk Management Division (RMD) team, for necessary updation of database. When a SB comes for assessment, the Appraising Officer after completion of his scrutiny of RMS instructions and SB declaration shall write a self contained order for examination so as to cover all the critical parameters of examination ( as identified by the RMS instructions). (iii) Amendments: The officers handling amendments should note that any amendment would lead to a change in risk perception and consequent treatment of risk by RMS. The RMS will process the SB after every amendment and provide its output to ICES. However, the treatment of risk after the amendment(s) will be communicated in ICES only after goods registration. T ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... valid reason for doing so. However, such examination should be done only after prior approval of the Commissioner or an officer authorised by him for this purpose, who shall not be below the rank of Additional/Joint Commissioner of Customs and after recording the reasons for the san)e. A brief remark on the reasons and particulars of Commissioner's authorization shall be made by the officer examining the goods in the departmental comments in the EDI system. (vi) Let Export Order (LEO): Even though in many cases the RMS decides to give appraisal and examination waiver, the LEO function would not be dispensed with and customs clearance in terms of Section 51 of the Customs Act, 1962 will continue to be given by the proper officer to each and every SB. The LEO Officer will exercise the last check before the goods are given clearance for exportation. Therefore the LEO officer shall scrutinize the declarations in documents like AR4/ARE1 vis-a-vis the declarations in the SB and if he/she has strong reasons to believe that the exporter has mis-declared the description, RITC or value of the goods, he/she should send the SB back to the appraising group (if ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 3.12.2013 and Public Notice No. 42/2013 dated 13.12.2013 issued by this office. The instructions contained therein are required to be followed scrupulously. Additional information, wherever required may be sought from the exporters. However, frivolous and piecemeal queries should be avoided and the query should be detailed and covering all aspects. The Additional/Joint Commissioners in-charge of Export shall monitor the queries closely. (viii) Recall of facilitated Shipping Bills: Recall of SB and subsequent reassessment of the facilitated Shipping Bills (where no assessment and no examination are prescribed by the RMS), contrary to RMS instructions, should be avoided as a matter of routine. However, under extraordinary circumstances or on the request of the Exporter/CHA, the AC/DC in-charge shall take written approval of the Commissioner or an officer not below the rank of Additional/Joint Commissioner authorized by him before recalling a SB and the details of the same shall be recorded as departmental comments. (ix) Documents Collection: While discharging the LEO responsibility, the following documents should be collected fr ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... l be no written examination report. He will then mark the Electronic S/B and forward the checklist along with the original documents to the Appraiser / Supdt. in charge. If the Appraiser / Supdt.is satisfied that the particulars entered in the system conform to the description given in the original documents and the physical examination, he will proceed to give Let Export order for the shipment and inform the exporter. The Appraiser / Supdt. would retain the checklist, the declaration and all original documents with him. 8.4 In case of any variation between the declaration in SIB and the documents or physical examination report, the Appraiser / Supdt. will mark the electronic S/B to AC/DC Exports. He will also forward the documents to AC / DC and advise the exporters to meet the AC / DC for further action regarding the discrepancy. In case the Exporter agrees with the views of the Department, the S/B would be processed finally. Where the exporter is not in agreement with the views of the Department, the matter would be handled outside the EDI system. 9. PROCEDURE IN CASE OF CONTAINERS STUFFED OUTSIDE PORT AREA 9.1 Containers stuffed in fac ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... rly mentioned below his signature). 10.2 Any other certificates required for permitting export will be retained by Customs along with the Shipping Bills. 11. PAYMENT OF MERCHANT OVERTIME (MOT) 11.1 The present manual system for payment of Merchant Overtime (MOT) charges will continue. 11.2 MOT charges will be required to be paid by exporter when the goods are examined by Customs for allowing Let Export beyond the normal office hours. No charges would be required to be paid on normal working days when the examination itself is being done for Let Export up to 05.00 P.M. However, if the goods are examined at the request of exporter outside the Customs area, a fee as prescribed in Customs (Fees for Rendering Services by Customs Officers) Regulations, 1998, shall be charged by the jurisdictional Customs Authorities under whose jurisdiction examination has been carried out irrespective of the fact whether the examination/sealing of container is within working hours or outside working hours. 12 DRAWAL OF SAMPLES 12.1 Where the Appraiser/Supdt. of Customs orders for samples to be drawn and tested, the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... n the checklist can be made at the Service Centre provided the system has not generated the S/B number. Where corrections are required to be made after the generation of the SIB No. or, after the goods have been brought in the docks/CFS, amendments will be carried out in the following manner. 1. If the goods have not yet been allowed Let Export , Assistant Commissioner/Deputy Commissioner may allow the amendment. 2. Where the Let Export order has been given, the Additional/Joint Commissioner (Exports) would allow the amendments. 14.2 In both the cases, after the permission for amendments has been granted, the Assistant Commissioner (Exports) will approve the amendments on the system. Where the print out of the SIB has already been generated, the exporter will surrender all copies of the Shipping Bill to the Appraiser for cancellation before amendment is approved in the system. 15. SHORT SHIPMENTS, SHUT OUT, CANCELLATION AND BACK TO TOWN PERMISSIONS 15.1 AC/DC(Export) will give permission for issue of short shipment certificate, shut out or cancellation of SIB, on the basis of an application made by the exporter. ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... t credit of the Drawback amount to the exporter's account, as no cheques would be issued for payment of drawback. The exporters are required to indicate their account number opened with the Bank. It would not be possible to accept any shipment for export under claim for Drawback in case the account number of the exporter is not indicated in the declaration form. 20.3 The exporters are also required to give their account number along with the details of the Authorized Dealer bank through which the export proceeds are to be realized. 20.4 As indicated earlier Export declarations involving a drawback amount of more than Rupees One lakh will be processed on the system by the AC/DC before the goods can be brought for examination and for allowing Let Export . 20.5 The drawback claims are sanctioned subject to the provisions of the Customs Act 1962, the Customs and Central Excise Duties Drawback Rules 1995 and conditions prescribed under different sub-headings of the All Industry rates as per notified by the Ministry of Finance from time to time. 20.6 After actual export of the goods, the drawback claims will be processed in the E ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... and address in the prescribed format (As per the Annexure F to this Public Notice). The IFS Code No. can be obtained by the exporter from his bank branch. b) At the time of registration of the bank account with the Customs authorities the exporter will be required to produce a certificate from the bank branch, where he operates his bank account, certifying the correctness of the IFS code and bank account number of the exporter and a copy of the same shall also be submitted to the authorized bank branch at the EDI location. c) Whenever there is a change in the exporter's bank account number the same procedure is required to be followed by the exporter for fresh registration of new bank account number. d) Central Bank of India, Pithampur Branch, Distt. Dhar is authorized for disbursement of drawback amount online. 20.9 Supplementary Drawback Claims: If the drawback amount initially paid is less then entitlement the exporter can file application for supplementary claim for additional amount. For such claims after approval of sanction of supplementary claim on file by the AC/DC Drawback, the Appraiser / Supdt. (DBK) shall ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... said provisional drawback amount already paid shall also be taken into account. iv) However, in case of a timely filed complete application for fixation of brand rate under rule 7, if the brand rate request is denied after verification, the rejection letter issued by Central Excise and endorsed to the Customs formation should carry the information about the details of the eligibility for the rate and cap specified in 'A' column of AIR Schedule in terms of all the Notes and Conditions with the Schedule and on this basis the Customs shall update the record and after taking into account the payments already made, finalise the claim in terms of the AIR provisions. (v) It may be noted that only the first drawback amount processed through the EDI system is electronically validated with respect to Rule 8A of Drawback Rules, 1995. Therefore, wherever there is any subsequent EDI processing on basis of the AIR, this validation must be enforced by the Customs officer for the total drawback amount against relevant tariff item. (vi) For shipping bills filed before 23.11.2015, the exporters opting for claim of brand rate under rule 7 of the Drawbac ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... . 29/2015-Cus dated 16.11.2015 has relevance. However, the exporter shall have to declare the figure '9807' as identifier (in the shipping bill under the Drawback details) followed by the tariff item number of the goods as shown in column (l) of the Schedule and followed by the character 'D'. Based on this, the shipping bill shall be processed for payment of provisional drawback amount equivalent to the Customs portion of these alternative AIRs. iii). The above mentioned DGFT and Customs notifications are effective from 1st September 2016. The CBEC's Systems Directorate is making all the necessary EDI related arrangements for implementation including specifying the appropriate new scheme code that would need to be declared by exporters making exports under the Special Advance Authorization Scheme cum AIR Drawback and these shall be publicized to exporters in advance by the Systems Directorate. 21. EXPORT OF GOODS UNDER 100% EOU SCHEME 21.1 The Exporters can get the export goods examined by Central Excise / Customs Officer at the factory even prior to filling of Shipping Bill. Self-sealing facility is also available. HC sh ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... d by DGFT would be received online by Customs. Such licenses would be subjected to the prescribed online validation checks at ICEGATE and thereafter, the same would be available for use by the exporters at the port of registration for imports. Details of such licenses would also be available on the home page of websitewww.icegate.gov.in. As mentioned above, exports under DES can be started immediately after receipt of file number message from DGFT by quoting the relevant File Number allocated by DGFT on the export documents. After issuance of licenses, exporters would be required to quote the relevant license number on the export documents. 22.2 There is no need of registration of file number / license number and obtaining a Customs Registration number at this port. As the licenses issued under DES / EPCG will now be received online from DGFT and would be available at this port, Importers would be required to produce the hard copies of the licenses issued by DGFT along with bonds / LUTs and execute BG in accordance with the provisions of the Customs Circular(s) in force and as per the statutory requirements of the relevant Customs Notifications, to the designated offic ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... omputer with the original EPCG[DES and register verify the same in the EDI system. The Registration No. of the EPCG/DES would be furnished to the Exporter/Customs Broker, which would need to be mentioned on the declaration forms (Annexure D) at this port for export of goods. It would not be necessary thereafter for the Exporter/Customs Broker to produce the original EPCGDES for processing of the export declarations. 22.7 All the export declarations for EPCG/DES would be processed on the system by the Appraiser/Supdt., Export Department and the AC/DC Exports. After the declarations have been processed and accepted, the goods can be presented at the Export Shed along with EPCG/DES licences for examination and Let Export as in other export goods. All exporters availing of the EPCG/DES facilities are requested to immediately get their EPCG/DES registered in the EDI System so that the export declarations are processed expeditiously. 22.8 Further, exporters availing of EPCG/DES benefits in terms of various notifications should file thc relevant declarations in Annexure D (Export) along with Annexure A (Export). 22.9 It is further clarified as fo ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... e Central Govt. provides rebate of State levies comprising of State VAT/CST on inputs including packaging, fuel, duty on electricity generation and duties and charges on purchase of grid power, as accumulated through the stages of production from yarn to finished garments. There is no need for separate application or supporting documents except for making a specific choice in the Shipping bill. The rebate amount would be credited into the Exporter's A/C mentioned for drawback automatically after processing. The ROSL scheme is not mandatory for an exporter. Therefore, an exporter has to make a conscious choice to opt for the ROSL scheme by making a claim for rebate in acceptance of terms and conditions of the ROSL scheme (including under the aforementioned Circular) along with a declaration of eligibility for the rate and rebate. OPTING FOR ROSL SCHEME: The claim cum declaration of eligibility has to be made by the exporter by using specified scheme codes for drawback exports, at the item level. The options in permutation with the ROSL Scheme are being provided with separate scheme-codes as listed below: Sche ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... I am eligible for the rate and rebate claimed for. Further, declare that an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC), where applicable, in pursuance of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 has been constituted. RES vendors may ensure that their RES versions are compliant to changes in ( l ) (3) as stated above. SB Message format has also been revised accordingly. ROSL Disbursal: ROSL would be disbursed as per procedure detailed in para 8 of the above referred Board Circular. For speedy disbursal, Exporters may ensure that the Account No. already registered for drawback disbursal is live and valid, as the ROSL disbursal would be made to the same account. The disbursal shall be in parallel with drawback albeit separately. The status of disbursal would be displayed on ICEGATE separately. The above changes would be effective from the 20th September, 2016. Suitable public notices and standing order should be issued for guidance of the trade and officers in this regard. Difficulties, if any, may be brought to the notice of this Directorate at (nsm.ices@icegate.gov.in). ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... f. The system shall indicate list of the shipping bills under drawback where the BRC/negative statement has not been furnished by the exporter within the prescribed date. The Assistant Commissioner / Deputy Commissioner (Export) may peruse such lists either for the entire Customs port or for an individual exporter by entering the IE code of the exporter and accordingly initiate action to recover drawback. g. The BRC entry module gives three options for entering the details of foreign exchange realization. h. If the exporter furnishes the BRCs as a proof of foreign exchange realization, the officer will choose option (l) and enter the specific Shipping Bill numbers and dates. Such Shipping Bills will be deleted by the system from the list of shipping bills pending for realization of export proceeds. i. If the exporter produces a negative statement for a specified six monthly period from the AD/chartered accountant that no foreign exchange is pending realization for the exporter in the given period, the officer will choose option (2). The system will automatically display the S/Bs pertaining to the given period on screen and once th ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... he STR amount, the core banking enabled account number, bank name and address, using 'Annexure-A' enclosed with Board's circular. The procedure for registration of bank account is the same as existing procedure for registration of bank account for receiving drawback amount. The Customs officer having 'CLK' role with enter these details in ICES 1.5 and generates a checklist. Exporter/ his authorized representative will check the checklist and confirm its correctness. Once the details are found correct, the same shall be saved in system. (For this purpose additional officers may be mapped to CLK role if required.) Refer Annexure G (Export). Exporters who have their bank account numbers registered for drawback purpose need not register their bank accounts again. The existing account itself shall be used for crediting S.T Refund also. It may be added that there is no option of having separate accounts for drawback and S.T Refund. 29.2 Registration of Central Excise registration number or service tax code number (including service tax registration number) Besides bank accounts, each exporter claiming S.T refund need to provide central excis ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ly. b. Shipping Bills with only STR amount will move directly in scroll in queue after EGM is filed. However drawback shipping bill having STR also will continue to move to DBK- Superintendent Screen and DBK-AC screen (in case DBK is more than ₹ 1 lakh). c. In the final scroll, a single amount indicating DBK and STR amount shall be shown against Shipping bills. However print copy of Scroll shall contain a consolidated breakup indicating Drawback amount and ST refund amount. d. Exporters can check status of STR through ICEGATE as well as Touch screen application. e. MIS has been suitably modified to indicate drawback and STR amount separately for Reporting and accounting purpose. 29.4 Claim for Availment of Chapter 3 benefits: Exporters intending to claim chapter 3 benefits are required to declare Y in the item segment of Reward claimed (Table 28(14)) without which theif Shipping bill will not be transmitted to DGFT for availing such benefits. 30. Grievance Handling The Assistant Commissioner [Deputy Commissioner of Customs may be approached by importers /exporters or ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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