ICES Advisory 01/2019-Mandatory Declaration of Standard UQC in Bills of Entry- m/reg.

Ministry of Finance, Central Department of Revenue, Office Board of Indirect tax and Customs, Customs of the Principal Commissioner of Customs, Phone:House, Mundra Port & SEZ, Kutch, Gujarat-370421 F. 02838-271029 E-mail:- agmundra.11 l@gmail.com Fax:-a No. VIII/48-42/AG-CHM/PN-44/U0C/2018-19 Dated-13 2 (e) PUBLIC NOTICE No. - 44 /2018-19 Qo L , “wr > Subject: oh ~[of][ Entry-][ m/][reg.] in[Bills] ICES Advisory 01/2019-Mandatory Declaration of supa It qs i) ? Brokers is brought to the notice of all the Importers, Export cxkto ae (Unit and General Trade that Data quality and standardization of the Cc Quantity Code) for the declarations filed in EDI is an imperative requirement not just for the purposes of valuation, but for introducing other quantity-based validations in the Customs System. An additional qualifier has now been added in the Single Window Table of the Bill of Entry to mandatorily declare the Standard UQC (SQC) in addition to the commercial UQC being declared as per the invoice currently.

The Info_Type in the Single Window Table will be CHR and Info_QFR (Qualifier) will be SQC for all the CTHs. The information actually to be declared against this qualifier would be in Info_MSR (measure) would be the quantity in the Standard UQC as per the Customs Tariff. In Info_UQC, the actual SQC will have to be provided which would be validated against the Tariff Code directory available in ICES. Even if the SQC is the same as the UQC declared for the item, it Windowwill have Tableto beasSeparatelywell. declared (along with the quantity) in the Single

ariff Code directory available in ICES. Even if the SQC is the same as the UQC declared for the item, it Windowwill have Tableto beasSeparatelywell. declared (along with the quantity) in the Single

The declaration of the SQC will be made mandatory from 18th of February, 2019. Submission of Bills of Entry will not be possible unless the above details are declared.

In view of the above, Importers, Exporters, Custom Brokers and Trade General are advised to file the declaration correctly and accurately from date of implementation.

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© (Sanjay Kumar Agarwal), Principal Commissioner

1. The Chief Commissioner of Customs, Gujarat Zone, Ahmedabad. 2. All the Additional Commissioners of Customs, CH Mundra. 3. All the Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of Customs, CH Mundra. 4. Mundra/Kandla Custom Brokers Association, S. All Trade Associations. 6. Notice Board/Website,

7, The EDI Section, for uploading on “Commissionerate’ Website.