Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
(Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs)

Circular No. 31/2018-Customs

Room No. 227 B, North Block
New Delhi, dated the 5^th September, 2018

To,

All Principal Chief Commissioners / Chief Commissioners of Customs/Customs (Preventive)

All Principal Chief Commissioners / Chief Commissioners of Customs and Central Taxes

All Principal Commissioners / Commissioners of Customs / Customs (Preventive)

All Principal Commissioners / Commissioners of Customs and Central Taxes

Sir/Madam,

Subject: - 24x7 Clearance - regarding

Kind reference is invited to Board’s Circular No. 19/2014 dated 31.12.2014 and 01/2016- Customs dated 6th January, 2016 on the subject cited above vide which the facility of 24x7 Customs clearance was made available at the 19 sea ports besides 17 Air Cargo Complexes.

2. Board has now decided that the facility of 24x7 Customs clearance for specified imports viz. goods covered by ‘facilitated’ Bills of Entry and specified exports viz. reefer containers with perishable/ temperature sensitive export goods sealed in the presence of Customs officials as per Circular No.13/2018-Cus dated 30.5.2018 and goods exported under free Shipping Bills will be made available at M/s Adani Kattupalli Sea port in Chennai, Tamilnadu. This would be the 20th Sea port in the country where 24x7 facility would be in operation.

3. Chief Commissioner of Customs, Chennai Zone is requested to deploy sufficient number of officers on 24x7 basis at the above specified port and give wide publicity to this trade facilitation measure.

4. Suitable Public Notice/Standing Order may be issued.

5. Difficulty faced, if any, may be brought to the notice of the Board

F.No.450/25/2009-Cus-IV

Yours faithfully

(Zubair Riaz)
Director (Customs)