Customs - Verification of Bank Guarantee - Email instead of Fax
FOR many purposes like registration of licence, provisional release of consignments, to get exemption benefit etc., Customs is required to verify and confirm legitimacy of Bank Guarantee/Certificate/LUT issued with issuing Bank/concerned Central Excise authority /issuing authority etc. In most of the cases, officers are verifying the veracity of these documents with the authority concerned either by post or by fax. However, in most of the offices, officers do not have fax facility and verification through speed post takes a long time for verification.
Government of India has taken-up a number of initiatives for promoting 'Ease of doing business'. One of the ways to make Customs clearance easier is to reduce the use of paper and to introduce electronic messaging and paperless processing.
To make communication faster, paperless and easier, the JN Customs has directed that verification/confirmation of the documents should be done through e-mail by using official emailids.
JN Customs Public Notice No. ., Dated: December 14, 2016