Implementing Integrated Declaration under the Indian Customs Single Window - Customs - PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 11/2016

Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue Office of the commissioner of Customs Custom House, New Harbour Estate Thoothukudi - 628004. C. No. VIII/48/06/2016-Cus. Pol Dated: 30.03.2016 PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 11/2016 Subject: Implementing Integrated Declaration under the Indian Customs Single Window - Reg. Reference is invited to recent Board Circular No. 010/2016-Customs dated 15.03.2016 regarding the implementation of Single Window and Integrated declaration of Bill of Entry for imports. 2. 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, few of which are mandatory in nature. Hence, if declarant don't compulsorily fill in these key fields, the BE job is liable to get rejected on filing. 3. 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. 4. 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 entered presently. Can be sent as 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. Enduse 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 purposes 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 O. 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. 5. Any difficulties may be addressed in this regard may be communicated to communication details of Local EDI, Customs formation and [email protected] (K. C. JOHNY) COMMISSIONER