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Customs - Export Manifest (Aircraft) Amended

CBEC has amended the Export Manifest (Aircraft) Regulations, 1976, inter alia to stipulate that:

- The pre check-in passenger manifest shall be delivered twelve hours before the departure of the flight.

- The final passenger manifest shall be delivered fifteen minutes before leaving or taking- off from the port of embarkation in India.

- The manifests shall be transmitted electronically to the Indian Customs in flat file format or in United Nations/Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport Passenger List Advance Passenger Information (UN/EDIFACT PAXLST API) message format.

Similar amendments are made in the Import Manifest (Aircraft) Regulations, 1976.

Notification No. , Dated: August 11, 2016

Notification No. , Dated: August 11, 2016

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