Reducing/eliminating printouts in Customs Clearance

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..... ber, 2016 [F. o. 450/25/2013-Cus IV (Pt),]. 2. Government of India has taken-up a number of initiatives for promoting 'Ease of doing business'. One of the ways to make cargo clearance easier is to reduce the use of paper and to introduce electronic messaging and paperless processing. The Board seeks to ensure that the success achieved over the years in advancing automated clearance processes, EDI messaging and digital signatures translate into a paper-free environment, besides reducing transaction costs 3. With the above objective to promote ease of doing business by reducing use of paper, the Board has decided as under: (a) GAR7 forms/TR-6 Challans : On completion of assessment of a Bill of Entry, the ICES generate .....

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..... sea. The transshipment permit information is sent electronically to the carrier, the transporter undertaking the transshipment, the custodian of the gateway port, and the ICES system at thedestination ICD or Port. Transshipment Permit can also be printed by the carrier inhis office or in the Customs House. Therefore, there does not remain need for printing the TP copy. However, where the ICDs/CFSs and the gateway port are not interconnected, manual copy or printing of TP copy may continue. c. Shipping Bill (Exchange Control copy and Export Promotion copy) After the Appraiser/Superintendent grants LEO (Let Export Order) in the system, printout of the Shipping Bill is generated by the system in triplicate i.e. (1) Customs copy (ii) .....

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..... ith the requirement for the Banks to obtain a physical copy of Bill of Entry from the importer as an evidence of import because data can be transferred in secured manner from the system of Customs department to IDPMS. It has been, therefore, decided to discontinue the printing of Exchange control copy of BoE unless there is a requirement of printing like in the case of manual BoEs. 4. Though Board has decided to do away with the routine printing of above documents, however, there could be cases where printing is necessitated for variety of reasons like manual BoEs, insistence of importer, exporter etc. Board, therefore, desires that in such cases printouts may be provided on demand. 5. The above instructions should be made operational .....

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