Improving Ease of Doing Business Issuance of Electronic Delivery Orders

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..... Ease of Doing Business”, several facilitation measures are being taken by the Central Board of Excise Customs. After consultation with stakeholders, it has emerged that introduction of electronic messaging for issue of Delivery Order instead of a paper based Delivery Order will result in considerable simplification in the Customs Clearance process, and can demonstrably reduce transaction costs and time taken in the clearance of Cargo. The use of electronic Delivery Orders was also identified at the first Central Customs Clearance Facilitation Committee meeting held on 28 July 2015 as an important trade facilitation measure. 2. Before Importers or their Customs Brokers are allowed to pick up their import cargo, they are required to .....

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..... ronic invoicing of all charges along with the facility to conclude the payment process using e-Payment facilities. It is only then that the importer or his Customs Broker can avoid the mandatory personal visit to the office/counter of the Shipping Line/ Airline or Consol Agent. 6. The introduction of electronic Delivery Order or electronic Payment of D.O. Charges do not change any of the current Customs procedures. Besides, all other procedures followed by the Custodians, i.e., due diligence involved in the verification of the Delivery Orders, obtaining 'Out of Charge' from Customs, and issuance of 'Gate Pass', etc will continue. 7. In respect of some categories of imports, namely - unaccompanied baggage, Direct Delive .....

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..... to participate in trials, followed by another Public Notice for the full scale launch. The relevant Public Notices 05/2015 and 09/2015 may be found on Commissioner of Customs ACC, Sahars website http://www.accmumbai.gov.in/aircargo/miscellaneous/pn_2015_16.html# . 11. All Customs formations may take necessary steps to bring the stakeholders together in order to encourage the implementation of electronic transmission of Delivery Orders. 12. Difficulty faced, if any, may be brought to the notice of the Board at an early date. Yours faithfully (A.K.Sapra) OSD (Customs IV) - Circular - Trade Notice - Public Notice - Instructions - Office orders Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementi .....

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