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Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Excise & Customs
Circular No. 17/2017-Customs
New Delhi, dated the 9th May, 2017
To
All Principal Chief Commissioner/ Chief Commissioners of
Customs/Customs (Preventive)
All Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief
Commissioner of Customs & Central Excise
All Principal Directors
General/Directors General of CBEC
All Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners
of Customs/Customs (Prev.)
All Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners of
Customs (Appeals)
All Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners of Customs &
Central Excise
All Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners of Customs &
Central Excise. (Appeals)
Webmaster, CBEC
Subject: Implementation of Notification No.107/2016-Customs (N.T.)
dated 11.08.2016 Uploading the Departure Manifests by the Airlines (carriers) –
reg.
Madam/Sir,
The undersigned is directed to refer to the Notification
No. 107/2016-Customs
(N.T.) dated 11th August 2016 wherein carriers are required to transmit
electronically the pre-check-in passenger manifest twelve hours before the
departure of the flight and the final passenger manifest delivered fifteen
minutes before leaving or taking off the flight from the port of embarkation in
India, 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), in the structure annexed
to the above Notification.
2. After holding consultations and carrying out tests in respect of
electronic transmissions with some of the carriers and their service providers,
it has been decided that with effect from 15/05/2017, all carriers shall start
transmitting electronically, the manifests for the outbound passengers fifteen
minutes before leaving or taking off from the port of embarkation in India, to
the Indian Customs in a flat file format. This format is identical to the one
being presently transmitted by the carriers in respect of the inbound/arriving
international passengers.
3. It has also been decided that the carriers would carry out the necessary
modifications in their systems in order to generate and submit the additional
outbound passenger manifests to be transmitted 12 hours before the scheduled
flight departure, within a period of six months i.e. by November, 2017.
4. The concerned Principal Commissioners/Commissioners of Customs having
jurisdiction over international airports are requested to issue Public Notices
to bring the above to the notice of the carriers.
5. Difficulties, if any, in implementation of the aforesaid guidelines may be
brought to the notice of the Board.
Yours faithfully,
(B. Konthoujam)
Under Secretary (Cus VI)
[F. No.520/12/2009-Cus-VI (pt)]
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