Regarding elimination of printing of documents

Vide this circular , with the objective to promote ease of doing business by reducing use of paper, the Board has decided as under:
a. GAR7 forms/TR-6 Challans:On completion of assessment of a Bill of Entry, the ICES generate a challan message, which is transmitted to the designated bank branches through ICEGATE. At the beginning of the day, a message is generated for those Bills of Entry, where duty payment is not done till the previous day. At specific intervals, this message is also generated for Bills of Entry assessed during the day. The importer, under ePayment logs in to the ePayment Gateway, selects the list of unpaid challans, then selects the bank in which to make the ePayment. The system redirects the importer to his bank for completing the ePayment transaction. The receipt, which is based on payment confirmation by the bank, is generated by application at ICEGATE and transmitted onward to ICES application.

b. TP Copy: At present, in ICES, there is a module for processing transshipment cargo from a sea port toICD/CFS or to another seaport. Thetransshipment permit information is sent electronically to the carrier, the transporter undertaking the transshipment,etc. Transshipment permit can also be printed by the carrier in his office or in the custom house. Therefore, there does not remain need for printing the TP copy. However, where the ICDs/CFSs and the gateway port are not interconnected, manual copy or printing of TP copy may continue.

c. Shipping Bill (Exchange Control copy and Export Promotion copy): With regard to Shipping Bill:
a. detailed copy of the Shipping Bill is not required by the Authorised Dealer. It is enough if a summary copy is printed.
b. CBEC provides copies of digitally signed Shipping Bills to DGFT.
c. The data of Shipping Bill is integrated with EDPMS (Export Data Processing and Monitoring System) of RBI.
In the light of the above, printing of the Exchange Control copy and Export Promotion copy of the Shipping Bill does not serve any useful purpose.

d. Bill of Entry (Exchange Control Copy): IDPMS (Import Data Processing and Monitoring System) has been operationalised on10.10.16. Under this system, physical transfer (Bill of Entry) of data from Customs/SEZs willbe collated with Import payments data from banks. Accordingly, transactions where theamount has been remitted abroad but import for matching amount has not been evidenced canbe easily identified and monitored. The outstanding entries are available in single database ofIDPMS and can be extracted for required monitoring by RBI, banks and enforcementagencies. In view of the above systemic integration, RBI has decided to do away with therequirement for the Banks to obtain a physical copy of Bill of Entry from the importer as anevidence of import because data can be transferred in secured manner from the system of Customs department to IDPMS. It has been, therefore, decided to discontinue the printing of Exchange control copy of BoE unless there is a requirement of printing like in the case of manual BoEs.

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