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Procedure for E-Payment of Customs Duties under the Indian Customs EDI system – (ICES) Imports

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..... and Facility Note No. 18/2006 dated 31.08.2006 issued by the Commissioner of Customs, Chennai, regarding payment of Customs Duty and registration of goods for examination. In addition to the facility of payment of Customs Duty at the Extension counter of Harbour Branch, Indian Bank and Chennai Main Branch, State Bank of India, a facility of payment of Customs Duty through net banking is being extended to Importers at Chennai Sea Port. This service of e-Payment through net banking is offered by the banks without any extra cost. It will reduce the transaction cost of the Importers and expedite the time taken for customs clearance. 2. This Trade Notice outlines the changes to the Customs procedures, on the ICES for Importers/CHAs .....

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..... ies) is generated by the ICES for the Importer / CHA along with the assessed copy of the Bill of Entry. For ICEGATE users, the challan message also communicated through ICEGATE by e-mail. (b) The Importer / CHA physically presents all the four copies of the TR-6 challan at the designated bank along with the monetary instruments (demand draft, pay order, instruction of debit of bank account at the designated bank etc) for payment of duty. (c) The bank enters the particulars of receipt of the amount in their System and returns two copies of TR-6 challan to the CHA / importer duly stamped and signed. The bank retains two copies of the TR-6 challan. (d) After receipt of the duty, the bank conveys this info .....

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..... the e-Payment option from the side screen menu. (d) On selection of E-Payment option, the e-Payment page will open. The users already registered with ICEGATE can login with their username and password as REGISTERED USER. Thereafter their (personal) web page would open which will display all the unpaid challans details (less than 5 days old) for the Bills of Entry filed by him. (e) If the person is an UNREGISTERED USER, or he intends to make payments of duties on the documents not filed by him through ICEGATE, then he can make E-Payment by entering the IE Code of the importer. The CEG will display all the unpaid challans against the IE Code. (f) Once the list of unpaid challans is displayed to the regis .....

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..... is taken back to the site of the Bank for completion of the transaction. The VERIFY option must be exercised on the date of payment itself, and the option would be de-activated the next day. (m) After e-payment is made at CEG, ICEGATE will send the payment particulars to the ICES location. Thereafter, the Bill of entry shall automatically move to the examination queue. (n) The Importer / CHA need not produce any proof of payment for the clearance of goods in case of e-payment. However, he is advised to keep the copy of the cyber receipt with him for future reference for his own convenience. (o) In case of problems in e-Payment, the Importer/ CHA can contact the ICEGATE 24 hour helpdesk by phone at (0 .....

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