Implementing Integrated Declaration of Bill of Entry under the Indian Customs Single Window - Customs - PUBLIC NOTICE No. 11/2016

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS NEW CUSTOMS HOUSE, PANAMBUR, MANGALURU 757010 C No. S-49/02/2016 EDI Date: 23.03.2016 PUBLIC NOTICE No. 11/2016 Sub: Implementing Integrated Declaration of Bill of Entry under the Indian Customs Single Window reg. Attention of the Regulatory Agencies/Participating Government Agencies (PGA), Importers, Customs Brokers, Service Centre Operators and Trade is invited to recent Board Circular No. 10/2016-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 Bill of Entry format and several additional fields have been added to the Bill of Entry, few of which are mandatory in nature. Hence, if declarations are not compulsorily filled in these key fields, the Bill of Entry job is liable to get rejected on filing. 3. The Technical specification of Bill of Entry 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 (Participating Government Agencies) agency wise guidelines for filling up the 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 be 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 and Industrial consumers respectively. IV. End use 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 0. 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 a precursor for doing away with paper documents. Statement codes that are to be mandatorily 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. IX. AD Code details are made mandatory in BE. Unless AD code is declared indicating the AD code at which outward remittance is done/ to be performed, the BE would not be accepted. There is no need for prior registration of AD Code. 5. An interactive session in this regard will be organised in the Conference Hall, IV Floor, New Custom House, Mangaluru at 1100 AM on 24.03.2016. The officers of Customs, Chemical Examiner s staff, representatives from the Regulatory Agencies, Trade, Custom Brokers and Service Centre Operators are requested to attend the same. 6. Any difficulties faced in this regard may be addressed to ICEGATE Helpdesk (180030101000 or [email protected] and [email protected]) and also to the alternate System Manager, Mangaluru Customs ([email protected]). (Dr .M. SUBRAMANYAM) COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS