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Digitization of Customs Bonded Warehouse procedures relating to obtaining Warehouse License, Bond to Bond Movement of warehoused goods, and uploading of Monthly Returns - Reg.

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..... rehouse License; (ii) online submission and processing of requests for transfer of warehoused goods to another person and/or another warehouse and (iii) uploading Monthly returns for the Customs Bonded Warehouse. 2. The Directorate General of Systems (DG Systems) has issued detailed User Manuals for providing necessary guidance to the members of the trade as well as the Departmental officers, that can be accessed on (i)https://www.icegate.gov.in/guidelines/warehouse-licensing, (ii)https://www.icegate.gov.in/guidelines/warehousewarehouse- transfer and (iii)https://www.icegate.gov.in/guidelines/warehouse-monthlyreturns respectively. An overview of the processes enabled is explained in following paragraphs. 2.1. Warehouse Licensing Procedure: Reference is invited to the Public Warehouse Licensing Regulations, 2016, the Private Warehouse Licensing Regulations, 2016 and the Special Warehouse Licensing Regulations, 2016 that provide for licensing of Public, Private and Special Warehouses under Section 57, 58 and 58A of the Customs Act, 1962, respectively. The Circular 26/2016-Customs dated 09.06.2016, as amended, prescribes an application Form for obtaining a license for a Customs Bonded .....

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..... tep-by-step workflow in each of these scenarios is enclosed at Annex-A. 2.2.1. Once operational, the module will track and keep record of any material imported under an Into-Bond Bill of Entry including its current location and ownership details through the successive transfers to different warehouses and/or owners. It will also monitor goods flowing into and out of a warehouse in precise terms, thus facilitating filing and processing of monthly returns. 2.2.2. Regulation 3 of the Warehouse Goods (Removal) Regulations, 2016 prescribes a physical Form for transfer of goods from one warehouse to another warehouse. The Form provides for inter alia recording of physical despatch of goods from the originating warehouse and recording of physical receipt of goods at the destination warehouse. The said recordings are required to be signed by the licensee or the bond officer, as the case may be. While the module on ICEGATE will capture all relevant transaction details in the ICES database, the aforesaid physical Form will also be used to monitor and close physical movement of goods. The said physical Form will be integrated with module in due course. Till such time, it shall continue to be .....

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..... ized Signatories/Licensees facing any difficulties in the access or use of the Warehouse Module can email their grievance to this office at : commr [email protected] /[email protected] or can mail directly to [email protected] for suitable redressal. Customs officers facing similar issues may email it to [email protected] for expeditious resolution. 4. Any difficulty noticed in the implementation of this Public Notice may be brought to the notice of the undersigned. S. P. Singh COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS BENGALURU Encl : Annex-A Annex-A Transfer of warehoused goods to another person and/or another warehouse (Step-by-step process flow on ICEGATE) In reference to transfer of warehoused good to another owner and/or another warehouse, different scenarios need separate workflows and case-specific checks and validations. Following are the different scenarios for Inter/Intra Warehouse movement of Goods: Intra warehouse - Change of Ownership without change in warehouse Inter warehouse Change in Ownership of goods or No change in Ownership of goods. Case 1: Change in Ownership without change in warehouse 2. Supplier, who owns the warehoused goods, shall initiate an .....

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..... to be entered by the supplier at the time of filing the said Form: Details of the goods (intended to be transferred), details of corresponding into-bond Bill of Entry (tem-wise), destination warehouse details, and space certificate of destination warehouse. In this case, the details of buyer would be the same as that of supplier. Soft Copy of Transshipment Bond and transit risk insurance policy covering the duty involved. Transshipment Bond details available in ICES. For generation of Transhipment Bond details in ICES, the supplier needs to submit the said bond physically for acceptance to customs officer of source warehouse. Once the bond is accepted, the officer makes the entry of Bond details in ICES to generate a bond number in ICES. 6. The aforementioned Form filed by the supplier shall be displayed on the dashboard of the buyer (which in this case is the same as the seller) with an option to accept/reject. Since in this case, the seller and buyer are the same, no new triple duty bond is to be submitted, however the user would need to upload the copy of the space certificate issued by the destination warehouse where the goods are to be transferred. 7. Once submitted after acc .....

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..... surance policy covering the duty involved in the Warehouse Goods being moved, where the supplier has not provided these documents. Transshipment Bond details available in ICES, where the supplier has not provided these details. Triple Duty Bond details available in ICES. Space certificate obtained from destination warehouse. After submission of the details by buyer and supplier as above, ICES would validate the Triple Duty Bond details submitted by the buyer and Transshipment Bond details submitted by the Buyer or supplier, as the case may be, on ICEGATE portal. For the purpose of generation of Triple Duty Bond details in ICES, the buyer needs to submit the bond physically at the port of import for acceptance. Once it is accepted and port officer makes entry of bond details in ICES, a bond number is generated in ICES. Likewise, for generation of Transshipment Bond details in ICES, the buyer or the seller, as the case may be, needs to submit the Transshipment Bond physically for acceptance to the customs officer at the source warehouse. Once the bond is accepted, the officer makes the entry of Bond details in ICES to generate a Bond number at ICES. The same Bond number and date need .....

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