Manual filing and processing of bills of entry/ shipping bills.

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Instruction no. 06/2017- Customs F. No. 401/81/2011- Cus llJ Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue (Central Board of Excise and Customs) **** New Delhi, dated 2"0 June, 2017 To, All Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Customs/ Customs (Preventive) All Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Customs & Central excise All Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners of Customs/ Customs (Preventive) All Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise All Director Generals under CBEC Sir/ Madam, Subject: Manual filing and processing of bills of entry/ shipping bills - regarding l am directed to invite attention to Hoard's instructions of even no. dated 04.05.2011, read with Corrigendum dated 12.05.20 I I and instruction dated 07.04.2011 on the subject mentioned above. It has been reiterated by the Board that manual bill of entry shall be allowed to be filed in EDI locations only in exceptional and genuine cases where permitted by the Principal Commissioner/ Commissioner of Customs strictly in accordance with the legal provisions. 2. The Principal Commissioner/ Commissioner of Customs is required to issue suitable public notice specifying the exceptional and rare situations where manual bill of entry may be filed and the list should be periodically reviewed. The Public Accounts Committee have adversely co1mnentcd on lhc continuous 3. instances of manual filing of bills of entries at several EDI locations in their fiftieth report (201S-2016). For bringing in better accountability, efficiency and transparency as recommended by PAC, it is imperative lo keep track of all manually filed bills of entry. Further, the registered manual bills of entry will be linked with a system generated challan for enabling electronic payment of Customs duty in the e-payment portal ICEGATE. This is in line with the Govenunent of India's intensive promotion of digital payment. Accordingly, a procedure has been devised a detailed below for streamlining the processing of manual Bills of entries and necessary changes have been made in ICES 1.S which will enable capturing of data as a move towards full digitization. automatically integrated in the system. No manual challans would henceforth be allowed for duty payment. f. The OOC acknowledgement shall be entered by Shed Appraiser in the option provided in the SUP role. g. Once goods are cleared, the docket shall be forwarded to the Noting Section, which shall enter the remaining details including examination report of that Bill of Entry using MBE role. The Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner, Noting Section, may ensure that post clearance of goods, the complete detaib have been entered in the ICES 1.5 on the date the OOC is g.iven, and not later than the next day in case of adequate reason. Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners are advised to prescribe a procedure to ensure that the post-clearance updation is monitored on a regular basis. This procedure would facilitate forwarding the Manual BE details in a timely manner to various integration partners such as GSTN, DGCl&S, RBI, DGFT etc. h. No BE al any EDI location shall be filed with a BE number other than the running number generated by the system. The process shall be implemented from 15.06.2017 for all EDI fom,ations for the time 4. being. The copy of the manual bills of entries shall be preserved and made available for 5. inspection whenever any inspection of the formation is scheduled. The Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner of Customs shall carry out random cross verification exercise of the entries made by the Noting Section against the copy of the manual bills of entries from time to time to identify discrepancies and take corrective action. All concerned are requested to monitor and supervise the implementation of the 6. prescribed procedure by formations under their charge. Difficulties, if any, in implementation of the prescribed procedure may be brought to notice of the Board. Yours faithfully, • ��v (Zubair Riaz) Director (Customs)

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