Rule 3 - Procedure for claiming drawback on goods exported by post - Re-export of Imported Goods (Drawback of Customs Duties) Rules, 1995

3. Procedure for claiming drawback on goods exported by post. - (1) Where goods are to be exported by post under a claim for drawback under these rules, - (a) the outer packing carrying the address of the consignee shall also carry in bold letters the words DRAWBACK EXPORT ; (b) the exporter shall deliver to the competent Postal Authority, alongwith the parcel or package, a claim in the form at Annexure I, [See Customs Series Form No. 108 in Part 5] in quadruplicate, duly filled in. (2) The date of receipt of the aforesaid claim form by the proper officer of customs from the postal authorities shall be deemed to be date of filing of drawback claim by the exporter for the purpose of section 75A and an intimation of the same shall be given by the proper officer of customs to the exporter in such form as the 1 [Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be] may prescribe. (3) In case the aforesaid claim form is not complete in all respects, the exporter shall be informed of the deficiencies therein within fifteen days of its receipt from postal authorities by a deficiency memo in the form prescribed by the 1 [Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be], and such claim shall be deemed not to have been received for the purpose of sub-rule (2). (4) When the exporter complies with the requirements specified in the deficiency memo, within thirty days of receipt of the deficiency memo, he shall be issued an acknowledgement by the proper officer in the form prescribed by the 1 [Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be] and the date of such acknowledgement shall be deemed to be date of filing the claim for the purpose of section 75A. ---------------- Notes:- 1. Substituted vide Not. 56/2014 - Dated 6-8-2014