Single Window Project - Simplification of procedure in SWIFT for clearance of consignments related to drugs & cosmetics

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..... oms single window procedure as laid down under Board's circular no. 10/2016 - customs dt. 15/03/2016. In furtherance to the Circ. No. 10/2016, the Board has issued circular no. 28/2016 - customs dt. 14/ 06/2016 on the subject matter refining/ simplifying the process involved in obtaining the NOC (No Objection Certificate) from Assistant Drug Controller (ADC). 2. The Board in consultation with the Drug Controller General of India has decided to introduce the following simplified procedure for import of drugs/ chemicals requiring NOC: Items that are Chemicals and Not drugs 2.1 Several items falling under different Customs Tariff Heads which have been mapped in SWIFT as requiring clearance from Assistant Drug Controller's (ADC) .....

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..... puty Drug Controller's office and then to obtain an NOG from ADC office. To simplify the clearance of dual use items, it has been decided in consultation with the DCGI that items that are not pharmaceutical grade or items that do not contain any Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) need not be referred to the ADC for NoC. Therefore, in respect of the category of dual-use items or excipients, in the Integrated Declaration, the items will normally not be referred to the ADC clearance if the importers or their Customs Brokers declare as follows: (i) While providing the item details, it must be declared that the item is not pharmaceutical grade and does not contain any Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. (ii) The 'intended end us .....

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..... h for the purposes of giving NOC. Letters of Guarantee and Undertakings 2.5 For different situations of clearance, the DCGI requires the importer to present letters of declarations, undertaking and letters of guarantee in formats prescribed in its Guidance Document. It was decided that wherever the text of these declarations, undertakings, and letters of guarantee are provided as part of the integrated declaration and digitally signed by the declarant, the importer may not produce separate hardcopies of the same declarations undertakings and letters of guarantee. These shall be subsumed as part of the Integrated Declaration. Mapping ADCs office to ICES locations 2.6 Drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, non-critical diagnostics, du .....

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