Reducing/eliminating printouts in Customs Clearances

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..... n-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. 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 a challan message, which is transmitted to the designated bank branches through ICEGATE. At the beginning of the day, a message is generated for those Bills of Entry, where duty payment is not done till the previous day. At specific intervals, this message is also genera .....

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..... the destination ICD or Port. Transshipment permit can also be printed by the carrier in his office or in the custom 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 grants LEO (Let Export Order) in the system, printout of the Shipping Bill is generated by the system in triplicate i.e. (i) Customs copy (ii) Exporter's copy and (iii) Exchange Control Copy. The fourth copy namely the Export Promotion Copy is generated after submission of EGM. Further, with regard to Shipping Bill .....

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..... 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 will be effective from 1.12.16. 6. Any difficulties faced, may be brought to the notice of .....

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