The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (the “CBIC”) vide Circular no. 35/2018-Customs dated October 01, 2018 has requested all the beneficiaries transacting with customs, including importer/exporter, to register themselves at ICEGATE.
It has already introduced Single Window Interface for Facilitating Trade (“SWIFT”) for integrating Customs and other Participating Agencies (“PGAs”) for seamless processing of Import/Export procedures. One of the main components of SWIFT is eSANCHIT, which allows traders to submit all custom clearance documents electronically.
For making this paperwork furthermore simplified, CBIC is bringing in all PGAs under eSANCHIT wherein instead of importer/exporter the PGAs, who issue Licences, Permits, Certificates and Other Authorisations (“LPCO”), will upload document themselves. Once this facility is implemented, the beneficiaries will not be allowed to upload documents themselves. For availing this facility, the email-id of beneficiaries registered with ICEGATE will be used.