Paperless Customs —Electronic Communication of PDF Based Copies of Shipping Bill & e-Gatepass to Custom Brokers/Exporters

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..... g Bill and do away with the requirement of taking bulky printouts from the Service Centre or maintenance of voluminous physical dockets in the Custom Houses. This reform will yield immense benefits in terms of saving the time and cost of compliance for the trade, thereby enhancing the ease of doing business, while providing enhanced security features for verification of authenticity and validity of the electronic document. 2. Board directs that w.e.f. 22.06.2020 only the digital copy of the Shipping Bill bearing the Final LEO would be electronically transmitted to the exporter and the present practice of printing copies of the said document for the exporters and also for maintaining a docket in the Customs House would stand discontinued. .....

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..... onic Final LEO copy can serve multiple purposes such as being shared with DGFT, Banks etc. This Final IBO copy of the Shipping Bill will have the following features:- a. The PDF version will bear a digitally signed and encrypted QR code which can be scanned to verify the authenticity of the document using Mobile App ICETRAK. The QR code is tamper proof, which is digitally signed by CBIC to ensure the authenticity. Key details like SB No., SB Date, FOB value, Package Details are available in the secured QR Code. b. A version number is also embedded in the QR code which can be used to ascertain whether the document is indeed the latest version (in case of cancellation of LEO etc.). The same would be verifiable at ICEGATE Enquiry. 3.1 .....

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..... types of QR codes (i) for entire e-Gatepass document, and (ii) for each container/package covered under the e-Gatepass. This will ensure that only those containers/package move out which are covered under the Gatepass document. c. In case of packaged and other bulk cargos, the e-Gatepass copy of the Shipping Bill will be generated during LEO. d. In case of containerised cargo, the e-Gatepass copy of the Shipping Bill will be generated after the receipt of the container stuffing information for the SB. 4. It is re-iterated that for the purposes of exports, all the supporting documents should mandatorily be uploaded in e-Sanchit and collection of physical dockets shall be dispensed with. 5. Action to be taken in terms of decisions .....

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