ICES Advisory 33/2020 - Manufacturing and other operations in a Warehouse Regulations (MOOWR) and waiver of interest - Changes in ICES and ICES Advisory 34/2020 Capturing additional details for Certificate of Origin (COO) as per Customs (Administration of Rules of Origin under Trade Agreements) Rules, 2020 in Bill of Entry - Customs - PUBLIC NOTICE: 62/2020

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA OFFICE OF TIIE PR. COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (AIRPORT AIR CARGO COMPLEX) AIR CARGO COMPLEX, NSCBI AIRPORT, KOLKATA - 700052 S.60 (Misc.) 431/ 18 CCI Date: 18/09/2020 PUBLIC NOTICE: 62/2020 Sub: ICES Advisory 33/2020 - Manufacturing and other operations in a Warehouse Regulations (MOOWR) and waiver of interest - Changes in ICES and ICES Advisory 34/2020 Capturing additional details for Certificate of Origin (COO) as per Customs (Administration of Rules of Origin under Trade Agreements) Rules, 2020 in Bill of Entry - reg. Kind attention of Importers/ Customs Brokers is brought to the various initiatives carried out in ICES for processing Import documents. It is informed that as per Section 61 of the Customs Act, 1962 no interest is leviable on Ex-Bond Bills of Entry filed for clearing the goods for home consumption from a Section 65 warehouse. Il} consonance with the same, the following changes have been made in the ICES: 1. IEC - Warehousing Mapping: For identifying the Warehouses which have been licensed for manufacturing activity under the MOOWR, an option has been given under the ACB i.e. AC (Bonds) role in IEC-Warehouse Mapping menu in order to enter the IEC and Warehouse Code for the purpose of mapping in the System once the license has been granted by the Principal Commissioner or Commissioner of Customs. This mapping will be used to validate the Bills of Entry filed with Section 65 declaration. 2. Changes in the declaration of Ex-Bond Bill of Entry: An updated BE message format has been uploaded on ICEGATE website (b-p.GLLj.c-egaLgov.in/msg_guideline.html). Changes have been made in the BE_ITEM_SW CTRL table of the BE. Annexure 1 to this facility Circular gives the field level details of these changes. This additional information pertains to Ex-Bond BES filed for home clearance after manufacturing in the Sec 65 Warehouse and is required to be furnished for every item in such Ex Bond BE. Accordingly, items covered under Ex-Bond BD cleared from the particular Sec 65 Warehouse will attract no interest. 3. Re-crediting of WBE Ledger in case of Re-export: In case of export of the resultant goods/ finish products from the Sec 65 warehouse, option has been given under the ACB role menu to re-credit the Warehouse BE ledger by entering the concerned Shipping Bill details through Exports details of WHBE option. The above changes will come into effect from 21.09.2020. 4. Further, kind attention of Importers/ Customs Brokers is invited to the Board's Notification 81/2020 - Customs (N.T.) dated 21.08.2020 on the Customs (Administration of Rules of Origin under Trade Agreements) Rules, 2020 Regulations. These Regulations apply to import of goods into India where the importer makes claim of preferential rate of duty in terrns of a trade agreement. In terms of the Regulations, to claim preferential rate of duty under a trade agreement, the Importer or his agent shall be required to file certain declarations at the time of filing Bill of Entry. In consonance with the same, following changes will come into effect in ICES w.e.f 21.09.2020: 1. Additional details in the Bill of Entry for capturing mandatory declarations while claiming PPA/ FTA notifications for any item: Whenever an FTA/ PPA Notification is claimed, it will be mandatory to declare the item wise details as per in the BEJ3W INFO _ TYPE table of the Bill of Entry, as mentioned in the Annexure 2. These additional declarations capture the requirement stipulated in the aforesaid Regulations. 2. Further, for each such item, in respect of which a PTA/ FTA Notification is claimed, following things will be mandatory: 2.1. The relevant document pertaining to Certificate of Origin (hereinafter referred to as COO) under that PTA/ FTA will have to be mandatorily uploaded on e-Sanchit and the IRN should be declared in the supporting document table for that specific item. Details of HIAA/FTA Notifications and corresponding COO document code mapping along with description have been given in the Annexure 3. 2.2. If imported goods are transported directly from the country of origin and not through another country, then the COO code itself can be given in Transit Country field, In case of transport through different country then country code of that country should be indicated in Transit country field. 2.3. As per the requirement of the above Regulations, for these items, a self-declaration will have to be made by the importer in the Bill of Entry as - I/ We declare that these goods qualify as originating goods for preferential rate of duty under the Customs (Administration of Rules of Origin under Trade Agreements) Rules, 2020 notified vide Customs Notification No. 81/2020 - Customs (N.T.) dated 21.08.2020 . This declaration is codified as CUF02 in ICES. This declaration can be filed in BE STATEMENT table for every item where FTA/VIAA Notification is claimed. 5. Mandatory defacing of documents before out of charge: Further, the COO should be mandatorily defaced before the Out of Charge (OOC) at the port of import. An option is already available in the TSK and SUP roles for confirming defacement of supporting documents in System, wherever required. With effect from 21.09.2020, marking defacement of each COO uploaded for a Bill of Entry will be mandatory, without which Out of Charge would not be allowed to be given in System, The above changes will come into effect from 21.09.2020. 6. Actions to be taken in the terms of decisions conveyed in this Facility Circular should be considered as Standing Order for the purpose of Officers. 7. If any discrepancy, the same may be addressed to Additional Commissioner (Systems), Kolkata through Email [email protected]. (Authority: ICES Advisory 33/2020 - Manufacturing and other operations in a Warehouse Regulations (MOOWR) and waiver of interest - Changes in ICES and ICES Advisory 34/2020 - Capturing additional details for Certificate of Origin (COO) as per Customs (Administration of Rules of Origin under Trade Agreements) Rules, 2020 in Bill of Entry ) (DEEP SHEKHAR) PRINCIPAL COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS AIRPORT AIR CARGO COMPLEX