ICES Advisory 06/2020 – Additional Information to be furnished in Shipping Bill w.e.f. 15.02.2020

OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (NS-II)
JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU CUSTOM HOUSE, NHAVA SHEVA TAL: URAN, DIST. RAIGAD, MAHARASHTRA-400707. TELEPHONE: (022)-27244700 F. No. S/12-Gen-02/2019-20-AM(X)/JNCH
Date: 17.02.2020

PUBLIC NOTICE No. 22/2020

SUBJECT: ICES Advisory 06/2020 – Additional Information to be
furnished in Shipping Bill w.e.f. 15.02.2020 – regarding.

It is brought to the notice and information of the Exporters, Customs Brokers and all other Stakeholders that Government has set an objective to turn each District as an export hub for specific goods. In this regard, Board is also going to issue a Circular on the additional information required to be furnished in the Shipping Bill for the purpose of Streamlining export data to include District level details in Shipping Bills. In addition to the District and State of Origin of the export goods, certain additional data like Standard Unit Quantity Code (SQC), Preferential/Free Trade Agreement (PTA/FTA) related details where applicable and GST Compensation Cess will also be captured in the Shipping Bill for improving the data quality as well as help policy makers in monitoring exports under PTAs. Following details as given in Table A will be required to be declared in the Single Window table of the Shipping Bill w.e.f. 15.02.2020. TABLE A

Information Declaration in the Single Window Table Remarks State of Origin INFO_TYPE – ORC INFO_QFR – STO INFO_CD – State code as the per Annexure B

District of Origin INFO_TYPE – ORC INFO_QFR – DOO INFO_CD – District code as the per Annexure B

Both the district as well as state codes are mandatory for every item and the District code should be of the state declared as the State of Origin Standard Unit Quantity Code (SQC) INFO_TYPE – CHR INFO_QFR – SQC

INFO_MSR – Actual quantity in the Standard UQC as per the Customs Tariff

INFO_UQC – Standard UQC for that CTH as per the Customs Tariff

SQC is also mandatory for all the items. Even if the SQC is the same as the commercial Unit Quantity Code declared for the item in the item table, it will have to be separately declared (along with the quantity) in the Single Window Table as well.
Export under Preferential/Free Trade Agreement INFO_TYPE – ORC INFO_QFR – EPT INFO_CD - As per the Annexure A

Mandatory for all the items. Wherever Exports are not under any PTA, INFO_CD should be declared as NCPTI

GST Compensation Cess INFO_TYPE – DTY INFO_QFR – GCESS INFO_MSR – Actual GST Comp Cess Amount

INFO_UQC – INR

Presently Exporter declares IGST + Comp Cess in one field as IGST amount paid. W.e.f, 15.02.20, Comp Cess details should be declared in the Single Window Table

Another change becoming effective from 15.02.2020 is mandatory uploading of Invoice in eSanchit for every Shipping Bill and subsequent declaration of document code and Image Reference Numbers (IRNs ) in the SB. W.e.f. 15.02.2020, for every Invoice declared in the Shipping Bill, the reference of IRN generated from eSanchit with the relevant document code as given below must be provided: 380000 – Invoice 331000 – Invoice cum packing List Note: At least one of the above document codes should be available for every export invoice This issues with the approval of Commissioner of Customs (NS-II), J.N.C.H.

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Annexure A – Trade Agreements

Sl. No. Name of the Agreement Date of Signing of the Agreement Agreement Code 1 India - Sri Lanka FTA 28th December. 1998 FTA0SL 2 Agreement on SAFTA

4th January, 2004 FTA0SA 3 India Nepal Treaty of Trade 27th October 2009 FTA0NL 4 India - Bhutan Agreement on Trade Commerce and Transit 17th January, 1972 FTA0BT 5 India - Thailand FTA - Early Harvest Scheme (EHS) 9th October, 2003 FTA0TH 6 India - Singapore CECA 29th June, 2005 CEPASG 7 India - ASEAN- CECA - Trade in Goods, Services and Investment Agreement
13th August, 2009 for goods and November, 2014 for Services and Investment CEPASEA 8 India - South Korea CEPA 7th August 2009 CEPAKR 9 India - Japan CEPA 16th February, 2011 CEPAJP 10 India - Malaysia CECA 18th February, 2011 CECAMY 1 Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA)
July, 1975 (revised on 2nd November, 2005) PTAAPTA 2 Global System of Trade Preferences
(GSTP)

13th April, 1988 GSTP 3 SAARC Preferential Trading Agreement (SAPTA)
11 April, 1993 PTA0SA 4 India - Afghanistan
6th March, 2003 PTA0AF 5 India – MERCOSUR

25th January, 2004 PTA0MER 6 India - Chile 8th March, 2006 PTA0CL 7 Preferential Trade Benefit not claimed at Importing Country

NCPTI