Customs Service Centres Watch Video

Customs Service Centres are essentially a Trade Facilitation Measure by the Indian Customs to digitize the manually submitted documents and printing at the customs EDI sites. The activities at the Customs Service Centre's are by way of facilitation for members of the trade who, for various reasons, are unable to file documents electronically from their own premises. The operations performed at the Customs Service Centres include, interalia, the following:

• Accepting documents for data entry of Bill of Entry, Shipping Bill, IGM and EGM, UAB declaration, Transshipment document and any other document.
• Data entry of details of accepted documents mentioned above
• Printing of check list of accepted documents mentioned above
• Editing of the data as suggested in the corrected check list
• Document submission into ICES application
• Printing of queries and feeding of replies as given by the trade to these queries
• Challan print outs for import/export
• Printing of Out of Charge (OOC) Copy
• Printing of Let Export Order (LEO) Copy
• Printing of all assessed bills of entry and shipping bills or other documents including those filed under RES
• Informing trade about the current status of their document in the ICES
• Capture documents / data relating to various stake holders in Single Window Project like Plant / Animal Quarantine, Banks, Chamber of Commerce, Insurance etc.