Streamlining of UQCs in Bills of Entry and Shipping Bills - Customs - PUBLIC NOTICE No. 47/2020

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, INLAND CONTAINER DEPOT, PATPARGANJ OTHER ICDs, NEAR GAJIPUR, DELHI-110096 C. No. VIII/6/ICD/PPG/RC/PN/03/2019 Dated: 26.08.2020 PUBLIC NOTICE No. 47/2020 Sub: Streamlining of UQCs in Bills of Entry and Shipping Bills - reg. Attention of the Exporters, Customs Brokers and all other stakeholders is invited towards streamlining of UQCs in Bills of Entry and Shipping Bill to Custom Brokers/Exporters at the Port. 2. Board had undertaken an exercise towards standardization of Unit Quantity Codes (UQCs) for purposes of export / import declarations filed on EDI. It was noted that many importers and exporters use UQCs like BGS, BTL, 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 nonconvertible/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 Tariff Act have been made mandatory in both imports (since Feb 2019) and exports (since Feb 2020) 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 and Shipping Bills. 4. In order to further improve data quality, even among the commercial UQCs declared for the items as per the invoice, henceforth only codes as mentioned in the Annexure would be permitted in BEs/SBs. Declarations in any other UQC will not be accepted. 5. The above changes will come into effect from 20.08.2020. 6. Action to be taken in terms of decisions taken in this Public Notice should be considered as a Standing Order for the purpose of Officers and staff. This issues with the approval of the Commissioner of Customs, ICD PPG Others ICDs, Delhi. (Dr. Abhishek Chandra Gupta) Additional Commissioner, ICD-PPG other ICDs, New Delhi Annexure UQC Description CBM CUBIC METER CCM CUBIC CENTIMETER CMS CENTIMETER CTM CARAT DOZ DOZEN FTS FEET GIF GRM FISSILE ISOTOPE GMS GRAMS GRS GROSS GYD GROSS YARDS HKS HANKS INC INCHES KGA KILOGRAM ACTIVITY KGS KILOGRAMS KLR KILOLITER KWH KILO WATT HOUR LBS POUNDS LTR LITERS MGS MILLI GRAMS MTS METRIC TON NOS NUMBERS PCS PIECES PRS PAIRS QTL QUINTAL SET SETS SQF SQUARE FEET SQI SQUARE INCHES SQM SQUARE METER SQY SQUARE YARDS TBS TABLETS THD THOUSANDS TKW THOUSAND KILO WATT HR UNT UNITS VLS VIALS YDS YARDS