Turant Customs - Automated Queuing of BES for OOC -Roll out - Customs - PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 09/2019

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS NEW CUSTOMS HOUSE, PANAMBUR, MANGALURU - 575 010 C. No. S-26/05/2019 cus. Tech (Pt-1) Date: 20.03.2019 PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 09/2019 Subject: Turant Customs - Automated Queuing of BES for OOC -Roll out - reg. Attention of all Customs Brokers, Exporters, Importers, Members of the Trade and other stake holders is invited to this office Public Notice No: 6/2019 dated 06.03.2019 and Board's Circular No. 09/2019-Customs dated 28.02.2019, on Turant Customs-Next generation reform for Ease of Doing Business . 2. In this regard, with the first step of mapping of officers and custodians complete, the queuing has now been operationalized in the System. From today, the OOC officers (in SUP role) will receive BES automatically marked to their CFS/Custodian group on FIFO principle. For the BES already in queue for OOC before the automatic queuing was operationalized today, the officer has been given a transitionary option in the SUP role (Option # 9) to enter the custodian code manually for placing the BES in the Automatic OOC queue. 3. In cases where the officer needs to set aside a BE for any further verification, option has been made available in top menu on the OOC screen to remove the BE from the queue. The same can be later activated using Activate BE (Option # 10 in SUP role). For changing the priority of any BE' or to reallocate BES from one officer to the other, options have been given to the AC Shed in the ACS role. 4. Additionally, option has also been given to raise queries directly by the Shed superintendent to the importer. This option has been introduced reduce the time and effort spent in resending the BE to the appraising section even where only a small clarification is required. The option is available in the Comments section on the main OOC screen for every BE. Once the importer replies to the query, BE would come back to the office for approval, similar to how it happens at the Mme of appraising. This option should only be used to raise queries where some documentary or other minor clarification requited. For any major change vie-a-vis classification or valuation, the current practice of sending the BE to appraising section may continue to be followed. 5. Difficulties, if any, faced in the implementation of this Public Notice may be brought to the notice of this office. (P.C. BORKAR) COMMISSIONER