On line transmission of Shipping Bills and Licences/Authorizations – Board's Renewed Instructions – wait some more
Board had issued a Circular No. 11/2007-Customs dated 13.02.2007 whereby a procedure for online transmission of DEPB shipping bills from Customs to DGFT and DEPB scrips from DGFT to Customs was put in place.
Actually nothing was put in place. It was only instructed that the jurisdictional Commissioners of Customs should implement the instructions from a specified date in consultation with the Directorate General of Systems.
Apparently even after two years, either the Commissioners did not bother to consult the DG, Systems or the System was not in place.
Now the Board informs that,
The Directorate General of Systems has since designed necessary software for online transmission of shipping bills and Advance Licences/Authorizations under the Duty Exemption Scheme (DES) and the EPCG scheme. These Authorizations and shipping bills shall now be transmitted from DGFT to Customs and vice versa online. Detailed instructions on the subject shall be issued by the Directorate General of Systems separately.
Board again directs,
The Jurisdictional Commissioner of Customs (in charge of EDI enabled ports) may implement the procedures relating to online transmission of shipping bills/Authorizations under the DES and EPCG scheme from a specified date in consultation with the Directorate General of Systems. As regards manual shipping bills at non-EDI station, the existing procedure shall continue.
A concerned mother woke up her sleeping child to inform him that there would be no dinner and that he would have to sleep without dinner.
CBEC Circular No. 3/2009 - Cus - Dated: 20th January, 2009