Request for Amendments and Waiver of Late Fee Charges in the Bills of Entry and regularization of Prior & Advance Bills Of Entry through e-mail procedure as facilitation during outbreak of COVID-19 - Customs - PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 22/2020

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, INLAND CONTAINER DEPOT, PATPARGANJ OTHER ICDs, NEAR GAJIPUR, DELHI-110096 C. No. VIII/ 6/HQ/ICD/PPG/Reg. Comp/Public Notice/03/ Date:- 28 .03.2020 PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 22/2020 Sub: Request for Amendments and Waiver of Late Fee Charges in the Bills of Entry and regularization of Prior Advance Bills Of Entry through e-mail procedure as facilitation during outbreak of COVID-19-reg Attention of the importers, exporters, Customs Brokers and all other stakeholders is invited to the above cited subject. 2. To minimize the physical human contact during this period, it is decided that the request for amendments and waiver of late fee in a bill of entry and for finalization of prior and advance bills of entry can also be made by sending email (along with relevant details such as IGM number and date, Bill of Lading no. and date, Bill of Entry number and date and Group) to specified official email IDs as follows- Sl No Port Name Port Code Email ID 1 Patparganj INPPG6 [email protected] 2 Sonepat INBDM6 [email protected] 3 Jattipur INDWN6 [email protected] 4 Patli INPTL6 [email protected] 5 Ballabhgarh INFBD6 [email protected] 6 Palwal INPWL6 [email protected] 7 Piyala INBFR6 [email protected] 8 Garhi Harsaru INGHR6 [email protected] 9 Bawal INBAW6 [email protected] 10 Rewari INREA6 [email protected] 11 Pali INPKR6 [email protected] 12 Barhi INRUG6 [email protected] 3. Further, in the para-3 of the Public Notice no. 21/2020 dated 25.03.2020, the following sentence that those bill of entries which pertains to IGMs filed on or after 21.03.2020 but on or before 14.04.2020, for clearance of import consignments, will not attract any late fee charges shall be substituted by that those bills of entries for clearance of import consignment which has arrived at the respective ICD on or after 21.03.2020 but on or before 14.04.2020, will not attract any late fee charges. 4. The Port A.C./D.C. will ensure action on the requests for finalization of Bills of Entry, if found in order. If there is a shortcoming, an email will be sent to the person making the request indicating the shortcoming. A confirmation email will also be sent at the concerned email id in cases where the regularization of the BE is done in pursuance of the request received. 5. In case the officer is temporarily working from home, he will immediately convey to the DC/AC on the roster in office. The concerned officers will act upon the requests received through such email and keep the print outs thereof as record in the respective group. The request should contain all the relevant details such as IGM number and date, Bill of Lading no. and date, Bill of Entry number and date. 6. A copy of the email request shall be endorsed by the Trade to email id [email protected] for monitoring of disposal of such requests. 7. In case of any difficulty, the specific issue may be brought to the notice of the undersigned at email [email protected]. 8. Action to be taken in terms of decisions taken in this Public Notice will be considered as Standing Order for the purpose of officers/staff. Sd/- (Dr. Abhishek Chandra Gupta) Additional Commissioner, ICD-PPG other ICDs