Implementation of Notification No. 107/2016-Customs (NT,) Dated 11-08-2016 - Uploading the Departure Manifests by the Airlines (Carriers) - Customs - PUBLIC NOTICE No. 27/2017

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (AIRPORT) N.S.C.B. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, KOLKATA -700052. F.NO. SD-41/2015 (Admn.)/5837/5427 Dated: 11-05-2017 PUBLIC NOTICE No. 27/2017 Subject : Implementation of Notification No. 107/2016-Customs (NT,) Dated 11-08-2016 - Uploading the Departure Manifests by the Airlines (Carriers) - reg . Attention of all the Stake Holders of NSCBI Airport, Kolkata, Airlines (Carriers) and all other concerned is invited to the CBEC Circular No. 17/2017-Customs dated 09-05-2017 regarding Notification No. 107/2016-Customs (N.T.) dated 11-08-2016 wherein carriers are required to transmit electronically the pre-check-in passenger manifest twelve hours before the departure of the flight and the final passenger manifest delivered fifteen minutes before leaving or taking off the flight from the port of embarkation in India, to the Indian Customs in flat file format or in United Nations/Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport Passenger List Advance Passenger Information (UN/EDIFACT PAXLST API), in the structure annexed to the above Notification. After holding consultations and carrying out tests in respect of elect4ronic transmissions with some of the carriers and their service providers, it has been decided that with effect from 15-05-2017, all carriers shall start transmitting electronically, the manifest for the outbound passengers fifteen minutes before leaving or taking off from the port of embarkation in India, to the Indian Customs in a flat file format, This format is identical to the one being presently transmitted by the carriers in respect of the inbound/arriving international passengers. It has also been decided that the carriers would carry out the necessary modifications in their systems in order to generate and submit the additional outbound passenger manifests to be transmitted 12 hours before the scheduled flight departure, within a period of six months i.e. by November, 2017. Difficulties if any in implementation of the above may be brought to the notice of the undersigned. (Dr. N. K. SOREN) Commissioner of Customs (A A) NSCBI Airport, Kolkata