Implementation of the Integrated Declaration under the Indian Customs Single Window – Reg. - Customs - 03/2016

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS CUSTOM HOUSE : COCHIN- 682009 F No: EDP/7/2010 Dated 28.03.2016 PUBLIC NOTICE No. 03/2016 Sub: Implementation of the Integrated Declaration under the Indian Customs Single Window Reg. Attention of Importers/Customs Brokers is invited to recent CBEC Circular No.010/2016-Customs dated 15.03.2016 regarding the implementation of Single Window and Integrated declaration of Bill of Entry for imports. In this regard, it is to inform that substantial changes have been made in the BE format and several additional fields have been added to the Bill of Entry, a few of which are mandatory in nature. Hence, if declarant does not fill in these mandatory key fields, the BE job is liable to get rejected on filing. The Technical specification of BE message format is already available in ICEGATE website under Downloads- ICEGATE Guidelines- Integrated BE Declaration. All the directories needed for Integrated BE declaration is made available in ICEGATE website under Downloads - Single Window - Single Window directories. PGA Agency wise guidelines for filing up Integrated Declaration will also be made available in ICEGATE shortly. The Important aspects to be considered in the integrated declaration in general (other than Single Window Requirements for which detailed guidelines are being issued separately) are given below for quick reference. For details; the detailed message document may be referred. I. Certain fields in message documents are suffixed with@@, indicating that no data is expected to be entered presently and can be left blank. These are provisioned for future utility, which would be notified later. (Eg AEO, UCR etc.) II. Third party details for RBI purpose may be entered in invoice table, if applicable. III. RSP applicability field is expanded to include more flags Q, T, D to declare exemption related to bulk quantity, institutional industrial consumers respectively. IV. End use of the item in item table was mandatory text field. This field is now restricted to Coded value to be declared mandatorily. Code list is published in the ICEGATE website which includes generic code GNX100 for Trading purpose or GNX200 for Manufacturing purpose. V. Accessory status field is included to declare about the availability of accessories as per Accessories (Condition) Rules, 1963. VI. Preceding Level column is added in HSS table to capture details of multiple transactions involved in HSS transactions. If there is only one transaction, Preceding Level would be 0. VII. New Flag `E' is added in Commercial Tax Type to capture Central Excise Registration No. when goods are imported following the IGCR(Import of goods under concessional rate of duty of excisable goods)Rules, 2016. VIII. Statement Table is added to enable Importers to electronically declare/undertake various statutory requirements, which is precursor for doing away with paper documents. Statement codes are mandatory to be declared are CUG00,CUG01, CUV01, CUV02, CUV03. The statement text is provided in ICEGATE. Statement Type is to be provided as DEC. Statement text can be left blank and forwarding code is sufficient. IX. AD Code details are made mandatory in BE. Unless AD code is declared indicating the AD code at which outward remittance is done/ to be performed, the BE would not be accepted. There is no need for prior registration of AD Code. For the ease of trade the new mandatory fields are listed below:- (i) AD code Bill of Entry (ii) Payment Method Code T (iii) RSP New Codes Q, D, T (iv) Related or Not Y/N (v) Enduse same field but Coded (vi) HSS Preceding Level single record 0 (vii) Mandatory statement Code CUG00, CUG01, CUV01, CUV02, CUV03 (viii) @@ - future use should be left blank only (ix) PGA related requirements Any difficulties faced in this regard may be communicated to the Assistant Commissioner of Customs (EDI), Custom House, Cochin-682009, (EDI Tel. No.0484-2668061) or System Manager, Custom House, Cochin-9 ([email protected]) or ICEGATE Helpdesk (180030101000 or [email protected]) and [email protected]. (Dr. K. N. RAGHAVAN) COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS S/D (PRASANTH K C S) Superintendent of Customs, EDI