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OFFICE OF THE
COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, |
F. No.
SMisc.47/2000-Sys. Unit
07/03/2001
PUBLIC NOTICE
46/2001
Sub:
Modifications in ICES software - reg.
Attention of the Exporters/Shipping Lines/Shipping Agents/CHAs and all others
concerned is invited towards the Public Notice No. 223/2000 dated 18.08.2000 vide
which trade was informed regarding Automation of Customs Operations relating to Vessels
and EDI connectivity with Chennai Port Trust and Shipping Agents. In addition, certain other changes are being made
in ICES regarding the procedure for calculation of Export Cess and in the movement of
Shipping Bill, after submission of replies to queries raised by more than one officer. Accordingly, the following changes are being made
in the existing procedures with effect from 15.03.2001.
CHANGES IN THE PROCEDURE FOR
CALCULATION OF EXPORT CESS
As per the
current procedure, Cess is being calculated as follows:
Amount of Cess =
FOB value x Rate of Cess
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100
For FOB value of Rs. 500 and a cess of
1% ad valorem, this procedure would result in Cess being calculated at Rs. 5.
As per representations received from
certain Custom Houses and as approved by the Board, the revised procedure would calculate
Cess as follows:
Amount of Cess =
FOB value x Rate of Cess
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100 + Rate of
Cess
Now for FOB value of Rs. 500 and a cess
of 1% ad valorem, the amount of cess collected would be Rs. 4.95 only
CHANGES IN THE MOVEMENT OF SHIPPING
BILL, AFTER SUBMISSION OF REPLIES TO QUERIES RAISED BY MORE THAN ONE OFFICER
In view of the problems being faced in respect of shipping bills where multiple
queries were raised by different officers and replies could not be submitted at the
Service Centre, certain changes have been made in the software. The revised system flow, in respect of all ICES
Shipping Bills would now be as follows:
§
A query can be
raised on a document either by the EO/Inspector or by the Appraiser/Superintendent. The EO/Inspector’s query may be rejected or
approved by the Appraiser/Superintendent. If
approved, it would then be sent to AC/DC for final approval. If no query has been raised by the EO/Inspector
and the Appraiser/Superintendent has directly raised a query, this too would require
approval of the AC/DC.
§
The AC/DC may
raise supplementary queries on the document., i.e., in addition to the queries already
raised by the EO/Inspector or Appraiser/Superintendent.
§
Replies to all
the queries would be routed through the AC/DC to the concerned officer. In case of query raised by EO/Inspector, the reply
would be routed through the AC/DC but not through the Appraiser/Superintendent. The latter would however be able to view the reply
when the document is marked back to him by the EO/Inspector. At that stage, he would also be able to raise a
separate query if required. It may be
noted that this is different from the existing procedure where the query having been
approved by the AC/DC, the reply is directly marked to the concerned officer and not
routed through the AC/DC.
Any documents already pending in the
error queue on this account may kindly be brought to the notice of DC(EDI)/Systems Manager
for necessary remedial action by NIC.
Sd/-
(M.V.S.
PRASAD)
COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (SEA)
//Attested//
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (EDI)
