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Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
(Central
Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs)
Circular No. 14/2019-Customs
Dated: 3rd June, 2019
To
All Principal Chief Commissioners/Chief Commissioners of Customs,
Customs & Central Taxes and Customs (Preventive).
All Principal
Commissioners/Commissioners of Customs, Customs & Central Taxes and Customs
(Preventive)
All Participating Government Agencies (PGAs)
Subject: Simplified auto-registration of beneficiaries (IEC holders) on ICEGATE
for eSANCHIT and other benefits – reg.
I am directed to refer to
Board’s
circular No. 35/2018 dated 01.10.2018 wherein it was stated that CBIC
was working towards bringing all the Participating Government Agencies (PGAs)
under eSANCHIT and enable PGAs who issue Licenses, Permits, Certificates and
Other Authorizations (LPCOs) to upload the documents themselves instead of
importer/exporter. The IRN of the uploaded documents would be communicated to
the beneficiary importer/exporter for quoting the same in their declaration. The
importers, exporters, Customs Brokers and other beneficiaries transacting with
Customs were, therefore, requested to come forward and register on ICEGATE
Portal. A detailed procedure was also made available for this purpose.
2.
However, the response from the trade has not been encouraging. The matter was
examined in consultation with the Directorate General of Systems. For successful
implementation of PGA-eSANCHIT, it is essential that beneficiaries are
registered with ICEGATE portal. Once the facility of uploading the LPCOs on
eSANCHIT by PGAs is implemented, the beneficiaries will not be allowed to upload
the same themselves. Out of 48 PGAs, nodal officers of around 29 PGAs have
registered with ICEGATE and will commence uploading LPCOs shortly.
3. It
was reported that one of the bottlenecks in registration was the requirement of
Digital Signature Certificate of beneficiaries. For the effective implementation
of PGAeSANCHIT and other planned enquiries and interactions, it was decided to
simplify the registration process on ICEGATE for those importers and exporters
that do not intend to do any filing of documents through ICEGATE and would use
the login only as an information and interaction portal.
4. Accordingly,
ICEGATE has now introduced simplified auto registration for IEC holders based on
the email ids already provided by them for registration under GST. Detailed
advisory on the same has been placed on the ICEGATE web portal. The simplified
procedure does away with the requirement of the digital signature. However, as
has been stated above, digital signature would be required in case the IEC
holder intends to file any declarations (BE, SB, eSeal manifest etc.) with
Customs. Further, the communication of the IRNs pertaining to LPCOs uploaded by
PGAs will also be made to the beneficiaries through the email ids used for
ICEGATE registration.
5. The registration of importers and exporters will
also enable direct access to information related to their consignments for which
DG(Systems) is providing several enquiries under their login. The importers and
exporters will get intimation about the status of their consignments and PDF
copies of their declarations on their registered email ids. The option of
replying to the queries raised by Customs officers, including those raised
during post clearance audit. has also been provided under the login of the IEC
holder so as to avoid the necessity of submitting the same physically at the
Service Centre.
6. The importers and exporters operating in your
jurisdiction may be asked to immediately register themselves, if not done
already, so as to avail of the above benefits. All the field formations in your
jurisdiction may also be sensitized in this regard and asked to issue suitable
Trade notices.
F.No. 450/148/2015-Cus-IV
Yours sincerely
(Maninder Kumar)
OSD
(Cus-IV)
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