Streamlining of UQCs in Bills of Entry - Customs - PUBLIC NOTICE No. 62/2020

OFFICE OF PRINCIPAL COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS AIR CARGO COMPLEX (IMPORT) NEW CUSTOMS HOUSE, NEAR IGI AIRPORT, NEW DELHI-110037 C .No. VIII(12)Import/Tech./PN/06/2020/Pt.1 Dated: 17.08.2020 PUBLIC NOTICE No. 62/2020 Subject:- Streamlining of UQCs in Bills of Entry- reg. Attention of the importers, Custom Brokers, members of the trade and all other stake holders is invited to ICES Advisory No. 29/2020 dated 17.08.2020 on the captioned subject. 2. Board had undertaken an exercise towards standardization of Unit Quantity Codes (UQCs) Ibr purposes of import declarations filed on EDI. It was noted that many importers use UQCs like BGS, IYI'L, BOX, CTN, GGR, HPT, KPC, ODD and DRM etc. which are neither stipulated in the Customs Tariff Act nor prevalent in the normal business transactions. These non- convertible/inappropriate UQCs lead to a poor quality of data capture and related implications. 3. As a first measure, declaration of quantities in Statistical UQCs (SQCs) as prescribed under the Tari Act have been made mandatory in the imports (since Feb 2019) for every item in addition to the quantities declared in the commercial units as per the invoice. The SQC declarations are being captured in the Single Window table of the Bills of Entry. 4. In order to further improve data quality, even among the commercial UQCs declared for the items as per the invoice, it has been decided that henceforth only codes as mentioned in the Annexure-'A' would be permitted in the Bills of Entry. Declarations in any other UQC will not be accepted. 5. The above changes will come into effect from 20.08.2020. 6. All trade associations/members of Customs Brokers Association are requested to take note and publicize the contents of this Public Notice among their members/constituents. 7. For the departmental officers, this may be treated as Standing Order. 8. Difficulties, if any, may be brought to the notice of Additional Commissioner of Customs (Technical), ACC Import, New Customs House, New Delhi through e-mail on email ID: [email protected]. This issues with the approval of the Principal Commissioner of Customs, ACC (Import). (Debjit Banerjee) Joint Commissioner of Customs (Technical) ACC (Import)