Interactive sessions to educate stake holders at Jawaharlal Nehru Customs House, Nhava Sheva
INTERACTIVE sessions to educate the Importers/Exporters, Custom House Agents, CMC Service Centre Staff and all other stake holders were held in Jawaharlal Nehru Custom House on 20.04.2010 and 21.04.2010.
The sessions dealt with the importance of data being captured by the Customs administration while effecting clearances, how it helps the department in classification and valuation of goods not only for levying correct duty on imports or extending appropriate incentives on exports but also for the purposes of ensuring uniformity of assessment practices and enforcing restriction/prohibitions imposed under allied laws and also for statistical purposes. The sessions also laid emphasis on furnishing of the complete and accurate details of the goods, as the Export Commodity Data Base and the National Import Data Base are major tools in the hands of the policy makers for framing the policy decisions while taking decisions on imports and exports into and out of the country. It was reiterated that the basic information like brand, grade, model, specification, unit quantity code, weight, country of origin etc., are correctly declared and properly fed into the relevant fields while filing clearance documents before customs so that analysis of such data does not through up skewed results and some unscrupulous importers or exporters benefit from such analysis.