Procedure for supervision of stuffing and sealing of containerized cargo - Central Excise - FACILITY NOTICE NQ.02/2011

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE AHMEDABAD -III 2 ND FLOOR. CUSTOM HOUSE, OPP. OLD HIGH COURT, NAVRANGPURA, AHMEDABAD 380 009. F. No. IV/16-32/MP/2011/Pt-II Date: 03.10.2011 FACILITY NOTICE NQ.02/2011 Sub: Procedure for supervision of stuffing and sealing of containerized cargo. In pursuance of the Board's Circular No. 952/13/2011-CX dated 08.09.2011 and 934/24/2010-CE dated 25.08.2010, the Facility Notice No. 1/2011 dated 10.06.2011 is being substituted with this Facility Notice. 2. The expo Her to whom the NOC has been given and who has obtained the factory stuffing permission from the concerned Customs Station, as per the existing instructions, shall make an application to the jurisdictional Range Superintendent, in the format prescribed [as in Annexure-I], 24 hours in advance or such shorter period as may be mutually agreed upon for supervision of examination, stuffing and sealing of the export container. Attention, in this regard, is drawn to the Board's Circular No. 934/24/2010-CE dated 25.08.2010. The Board has decided to provide online scheduling for factory stuffing examination by Central Excise Officers. The trade can forward their request for such factory stuffing inspection on the e-mail id of their jurisdictional Range Office. List of Range wise e-mail ID is enclosed in Annexure- II. 3. All the applications received from the exporters would be acknowledged by endorsing the time and date of receipt. The applications shall be disposed by following the standards of First-in First-out [FIFO]. If on a particular day due to over work load of supervision of stuffing export cargo the range office is not in a position to accede to all the request for such work, then the exporters would be immediately informed about the inability to provide the requisite officers and the exporters, whose request cannot be entertained for a particular day, may be requested to re-schedule the date/time of stuffing. If the exporter is not in a position to reschedule his schedule Of stuffing, jurisdictional Range Superintendent will intimate the jurisdictional Assistant/Deputy Commissioners Of Central Excise for deputing some other officer for the stuffing work The Deputy/Assistant Commissioner shall depute the required number of officers for the stuffing work from among a pool of willing officers from within his charge. In case on any particular day there are not enough officers in the divisional pool, the Deputy/Assistant Commissioner may request the Deputy/Assistant Commissioner, Central Excise (Technical), HQ, Ahmedabad -III to depute additional officers from a pool of willing officers at the Hqrs. level. Deputy/Assistant Commissioner, Central Excise (Technical), HQ, Ahmedabad -III will act upon such request and deploy officers from the Hqrs. pool as far as available. 4. It may be noted that the MOT fees are to be paid by the exporter for stuffing of their containers. Exporters may deposit a lumpsum amount in advance against MOT charges and deduct the actual amount as per the amount to be paid against MOT charges after the stuffing is completed. 5. If the factory stuffing permission issued by the Custom Station requires supervision of the jurisdictional Assistant/Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise he shall do the needful. 6. In case any inspector/superintendent (6ther than those posted in Range offices) is nominated for the purpose of examination, stuffing, sealing of containers, he/she would act as a Sector/Range officer for that purpose. In such cases the officer shall, after supervising / examining the export consignment, submit the signed export documents along with the samples drawn, to the jurisdictional range office as per the relevant departmental instructions, He would also ensure that duly completed examination report accompanies the export goods as per the extant instructions/circulars on the subject. 7. The above procedure is to be read with the existing Board instructions and circulars, and shall strictly be complied. Any difficulty in following the above mentioned instructions may be brought to the notice of the undersigned (RAJU) COMMISSIONER