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TMI BlogImplementation of Express Cargo Clearance System (ECCS) at Ahmedabad Courier TerminalX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... r referred to as 'the Act') and Courier Imports and Exports (Electronic Declaration and Processing) Regulations, 2010, as amended from time to time (hereinafter referred to as 'the Regulations'). 2. Consequent upon the issue of the Regulations and changes, as detailed below, the provisions of this Public Notice, in so far as they are with respect to automation of courier clearance for import and export, shall prevail over existing instructions. Further, the words used in this Public Notice shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Act and the Regulations. 3. The Regulations apply to automated assessment and clearance of imported or export goods, other than those excluded vide the said Regulations, carried by an Authorized Courier by air on behalf of a consignee or consignor. CBIC, vide Notification No. 27/2018-Customs (N.T.) dated 28.03.2018 has appointed Ahmedabad Airport as International Courier Terminal (ICT). Thus, Express Cargo Clearance System (F,CCS) is planned to be rolled out at Ahmedabad ICT in a phased manner, as mentioned below. 4. The Import and Export of documents and non-documents shall be handled in the automated system called ECCS (E ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... The export goods shall be packed separately in identifiable courier company bags, with appropriate labels. in the following categories: (a) I Documents (b) Samples and free gifts (c) Commercial goods; and that each package shall bear declaration by sender regarding the content of package and value thereof. 8.4 FILING OF COURIER SHIPPING BILL Para 6 of the Regulations prescribes forms for three types of Shipping Bills i.e. CSB-III, CSB-IV and CSB-V. 1) CSB-III (Form G) is to be filed for documents that include any message, information or data recorded on paper, cards or photographs having no commercial value. and which do not attract any duty or subject to any prohibition/restriction on their export; 2) CSB-IV (Form Il)' is to be filed for other goods namely (a) Bonafide gifts or articles for personal use of a value not exceeding ₹ 25,000/- for a consignment in case of exports, which are not subject to any prohibition or restriction on their export and which do not involve transfer of foreign exchange and (b) any Bonafide commercial samples and prototypes of goods supplied free of charge of a value not exceeding ₹ 50,000/- for exports, which are not su ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... oods covered under CSB Ill, IV & V: The clearance of export goods is subject to self- assessment in terms of Section 17 of the Customs Act, 1962. The trade is, therefore, required to exercise due care in making accurate and correct declarations. As the proposed Courier Clearance under the ECCS shall be governed by the Risk Management System (RMS), CSBs would be subjected to assessment and/or examination based on risk parameters. as may be determined by the Customs. The shipment/bag will pass through X-ray machine and if during X ray scanning, the Inspector does not find anything suspicious in the shipments, the shipments will be marked X Ray cleared and unless otherwise selected for examination will be forwarded to Superintendent and Superintendent will give LEO (Let export order). For the shipments, which are fully facilitated by RMS and X-Ray cleared, auto LEO will be given by ECCS. 8.9 PROCEDURE FOR SUSPICIOUS CONSIGNMENTS FOR GOODS COVERED UNDER CSB III, IV & V: In case, the shipments are found suspicious during X-Ray by the proper officer, the shipments shall be removed and sent to Inspector (Examination) or Examiner, who shall create an examination report and submits th ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... d can be viewed by the courier user. The courier user will have the option to omit specific HAWB, which are not being exported through the mentioned carriers/ flight after recording the reason for the same. Once the same has been verified and updated. the CEM-I detail shall be submitted by the courier user. 8.13 Unclaimed cargo: Any export goods that have been brought into customs area for export purpose and have not been exported within seven days of arrival of such goods into such area or within such extended period as permitted by the proper officer in case of delay due to such reasons, which the proper officer considers to be beyond the control of the concerned Authorized courier and declared exporter, may be detained by the proper officer and sold or disposed by the person having custody thereof, after issuing notice to the concerned Authorized courier and declared exporter provided the charges payable, for storage and handling of such goods are paid by such Authorized courier. 9. Clearance of Imported goods: 9.1 El-he clearance of imported goods under ECCS shall be governed by the procedure prescribed under the Regulations. The Regulations provide, inter-alia, that: ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... o each of the Authorized Courier. Once the Authorized Courier gets the IGM number, the same is to be updated in the ECCS system with actual date and time of arrival of flight by using the feed IGNI number process. This is important as it is on the basis of this date and time the system re- computes duty liability wherever applicable (taking the time of importation as the time of arrival of the flight). Upon Submission of the ECM-I, ECM number which comprises of a Customs serial number along with the running financial year and port name is generated. An example of ECM number is, ECM_AMD_2020-2021_01. 9.3 Arrival Scan: This process, carried out by barcode scanners in case of shipments covered under CBE XII. XIII and XIV, is used by the Custodian to update the status of the shipment in ECM-I as 'arrived'. Arrival Scan is done only after IGM Number and actual arrival time have been updated for the ECM-I. Shipments may arrive in multipart. which means House Airway Bill (HAWB) shall comprise of one or more packet. In such cases, the IIAWB number is the unique identifier while individual packages in the shipment may be identified by the Consignment Reference Number (CRN) or HAW ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... zed Courier, only when the assessable value of the imported goods is exceeding rupees One Lakh (₹ 1, 00,000/-) As an exception CBE-XIV will also be filed in case of import under 100% EOU scheme and in cases of import for repair and return consignments. An example of CBE-XIV number is CBE-XIV_AMD_2020-2021_01_01. 9.10 Import Clearance Process: The clearance of imported goods is subject to self-assessment in terms of Section 17 of the Customs Act, 1962. The trade is, therefore, required to exercise due care in making accurate and correct declarations and assessment of duty. As the proposed Courier Clearance under the ECCS shall be governed by the Risk Management System (RMS), CBEs would be subjected to assessment and/or examination based on risk parameters, as may be determined by the Customs. The CBEs facilitated by the RMS shall move directly for payment of duty in case of dutiable goods and for X-Ray scanning and Out of Charge in case of non-dutiable goods and documents. The non-facilitated CBEs shall be subjected to assessment and examination/only assessment/ only examination of the goods, as may be determined by the RMS. However. in all cases where Compulsory Compliance ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Memo will be issued. The CBE shall be transferred to the Authorized Courier for replying to the Query Memo and Custodian for updating details in the warehouse register. e) Approval of Appraisal by DC/ AC: The CBE-XII which are marked to DC/ AC by Assessing Officer and all CBEs of Assessable Value more than Rs.l,00,000/- (Rupees One Lakh) get allocated to IDC/ AC for approving appraisal. DC/ AC can either return such CBEs to the Assessing Officer or approve Appraisal. In cases, where CBEs are returned to Assessing Officers, the Assessing Officer shall take appropriate action. If the DC/ AC approves the appraisal, then the CBE shall move to the Authorized Courier for payment of Duty. f) Duty Payment by Authorized Courier: The payment module of ECCS has been integrated with the banking payment process, which shall be used to make online payment of Duty, Interest- Fine. Penalty and others charges (e.g. Trans-shipment Fee etc.). For this purpose, all the registered Authorized Courier must have an account with any branch of State Bank of India. g) X-Ray Scan: Post payment of duty and arrival of the ECM-I, the CBE shall be available to the Out of Charge officer. However, before Out ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ng the shipment again. After re-examination, the inspector shall send shipments meant to be cleared to the Shed Superintendent/ Appraiser for issuance of Out of Charge. 9.13 Payment of Customs duty and other Customs dues: The ECCS provides for online payment of Customs duty, interest etc. For this purpose, the user shall create a Challan in the ECCS by selecting CBE and the available port-wise authorized bank. Once the Challan is created, the application shall direct the user to the bank payment gateway for payment of duty. The bank shall process the transaction and shall debit the user account with the requisite amount mentioned in Challan. The bank application, after processing the transaction, shall direct user to the ECCS application and shall also send the transaction confirmation message to the ECCS application. The system will then generate a cyber-receipt of the paid challan at bank site. The transaction details of the user shall also be available in Transaction History option in ECCS application from where user can view the history of paid/unpaid challans. Presently, only SBI option is available in ECCS for online payment of Customs duties, interest etc. 9.14 Manual Ve ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ith regard to the modification of details. The set of details permitted to be modified shall depend upon the stage where the ECM-I is present at the time of amendment. The conditions can be summarized as follows: (i) Before IGM Feed: All details in the ECM-I can be modified. (ii) After IGM Feed but before arrival scan: Once IGM number is updated in the ECM-I, on board courier details and the Flight details will be non-editable and cannot be modified. (iii) After Arrival Scan: Once ECM-I is received by Custodian, the HAW B number and CRN details become non-editable. Any amendment in the ECM-I shall be done after due permission/adjudication by Customs as may be required. 9.19 Bond Management: The ECCS has provisions for Registering, Managing and maintaining various types of Bonds in ECCS system. These Bonds can either be Continuity Bonds or Consignment Specific Bonds. 9.20 Bond registration: On the request of the Authorized Courier/Importer, the designated officer shall register and maintain Bonds/BGs through the Bond Registration function available in the ECCS. These registered Bonds/BGs shall be used by respective Authorized Courier in cases of Transshipment. The design ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... , CBE XIII and CBE XIV will be undertaken. The dates for last two phases shall be decided after successful launch of first phase and readiness of all stakeholders for the next phases. 12. The ECCS application would be accessible through the following URLs: SI. No. Module URL i. Main Application Portal (for all stakeholders) https://eccs.cbic.gov.in/eccs/ ii. Mobility (for Trade to track the status of the shipment) https://eccsmobility.cbic.gov.in/eicimobility/ 13. The following details of helpdesk support are for the end users of the ECCS application: iii. Bulk Upload (for Authorised Couriers through SFTP) eccsbulkupload.cbic.gov.in i. Helpline Email Id: [email protected] ii. Helpline Contact No.: 0120-4864713 14. Miscellaneous: The earlier Public Notices issued by this Custom House relating to the procedure for presenting and processing of the CBEs/ CSBs stand modified to the above extent and shall continue to apply to the extent that they are not in contradiction with this Public Notice. 15. Any difficulty in the implementation of this Public Notice should be reported to the Additional/ Joint Commissioner of Customs, Courier Terminal, Ahmedabad. ( ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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