Mandatory of Declaration of Standard UQC in Bills of Entry - ICES Advisory 01/2018 - Customs - PUBLIC NOTICE No. 02/2019

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS: EXPORT PROMOTION CELL CITY CUSTOMS COMMISSIONERATE, CENTRAL REVENUE BUILDING, P.B. No.5400, QUEENS' ROAD, BANGALORE - 560 001. C.No. VIII/09/01/2019 City cus Tech Dated: 15.02.2019 PUBLIC NOTICE No. 02/2019 SUB:- Mandatory of Declaration of Standard UQC in Bills of Entry - ICES Advisory 01/2018 Reg. Attention of all Importers, Exporters, Customs Brokers and all Trade Partners is invited to the Data quality and standardization of the UQC (Unit Quantity Code) for the declarations to be filed in EDI in an essential requirement not only for the purposes of valuation, but also for introducing other quantity - based validations in the System. An additional qualifier has now been added in the Single Window Table of the Bill of Entry is to mandatorily declare the Standard UQC (SQC) in addition to the commercial UQC being declared presently as per the invoice. 2. In the Single Window Table the info-Type will be CHR and info-QFR (Qualifier) will be SAC for the CTHs. The information actually to be declared against this qualifier would be in Info_MSR (measure) would be the quantity in the Standard UQC as per the Customs Tariff. In Info_UQC the actual SQC will have to be provided which would be validated against the Tariff Code directory available in ICES. Even if the SQC is the same as the UQC declared for the item, it will have to be separately declared (along with the quantity) in the Single Window Table as well. 3. The declaration of the SQC will be made mandatory from 18 TH OF FEBRUARY 2019. Submission of Bills of Entry will not be possible unless the above details are declared. 4. In view of the above, Importers, Exporters, Customs Brokers and all Trade Bodies are advised to file the declarations correctly and accurately from the date of implementation. (PARAG CHAKOR BORKAR) COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS