Brokers/importers/exporters in the email address

registered on ICEGATE. PaperlessCustoms

e-Gatepass:

An e-Gatepass is shared with custodians via electronic

messaging. This ensures the custodian has advance
information to prepare for identification and making
available the goods for delivery to importer. The
e-Gatepass helps in faster movement of goods out of the
port of import. In like manner, an e-Gatepass is sent to
Please scan for download

Paperless
shipping lines for advance processing enabling faster
movement of export goods.

Indian Customs Tablet (ICETAB):

Customs (Updated as on November 2023)

Smart mobile App installed in ICETABs enables officers Contact us:

working in the Examination section in Customs
formations who are on move and require connectivity in Director (Customs)
the shed area to access the ICES, enter his comments, DoR, CBIC, North Block, New Delhi- 110001
download e-Sanchit documents and carry out related Email: [email protected]
tasks. These are secure tablets which are exclusively www.cbic.gov.in
used by officers in examination area.
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Paperless Customs which it is queued before the OOC officer on a First-
In First-Out (FIFO) basis. The feature is similar to
e-Storage and Computerized Handling of Indirect
Tax Documents (e-SANCHIT):
One of the pillars of CBIC’s flagship ‘Turant Customs’ the queuing of BE for assessment among Appraising
programme, the Paperless Customs initiative leverages Groups. A state of art online repository for storing and handling
technology to dematerialize documents/forms as supporting documents is an essential component
well as provide for electronic registration, wherever Customs Compliance Verification (CCV): of paperless Customs clearance, e-Sanchit enable
required, without the need to submit hard copies of paperless communication of documents between
documents in the Customs clearance process. This The introduction of a CCV has delinked Customs, participating government agencies (PGAs)
initiative speeds up the Customs clearance process, duty payment and allows the importer to and Trade. This helped implement many automation
enhances the efficiency of the logistics network, self-register the imported goods and paves the way for reforms.
reduces interface between the trade and Customs the Customs officer to conclude necessary compliance
authorities, and is environment friendly. It also verifications and conditionally clear the BE in the
increases the bandwidth of both Customs officers and system. The importer may thereafter make the duty
trade to focus on other priority work. payment, receive OOC electronically and proceed to
take the goods out of Customs control.
Web based registration of goods:

An importer/Customs Broker can self-initiate

the process of electronic registration of goods, Indian Customs Enquiry for Trade Assistance and
examination, documentary verification and issuance Knowledge (ICETRAK):
of Out Of Charge (OOC) on the Indian Customs and
Central Excise Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data The free mobile app, ICETRAK, enables stakeholders
Interchange Gateway or ICEGATE. The facility is to live track the BE/SB status, duty calculator,
being availed by majority of importers.This dispensed GSTN enquiry and validate the gate pass/BE/SB
the need for importer to physically present hard copy Machine based release: copies with QR code scanning functionality. QR
of Bill of Entry (BE) along with the supporting Scanning facility in ICETRAK assures authenticity of
documents at a facilitation centre for registration. The Indian Customs EDI System (ICES) automatically electronic documents to any public by making use of
gives clearance to imported goods when all the encryption and digital signature technologies.
compliances are fulfilled/satisfied. This also allows
the compliance verification such as examination of
goods to be completed even before Customs duties
are paid. The facility of machine based release results
in substantial reduction in time and cost of Customs
clearance.

Auto Queuing:

Post his physical submission, the goods would be E-OOC BE, e-LEO Shipping Bill:
processed for examination and/or OOC. This was
changed in ICES 1.5, wherein a BE pending clearance A secure QR code enabled PDF based final copy of
could be electronically registered by the importer after BE/SB is electronically dispatched to the Customs

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