Dear Members,

This is regarding postponement of mandatory implementation of e-sealing for export containers till 1st March 2018.

As you are aware, with effect from 15th December, 2017 e-sealing had become  mandatory in respect of the exporters, who have been permitted self-sealing facilities under the erstwhile excise procedure or GST regime, AEO exporters and exporters availing supervised stuffing at their premises for the following locations.

However,  representations had been received by the CBEC  from  trade/ industry  for relaxing the requirement for mandatory e- sealing in view of insufficient stock of e-seals with the notified vendors.

In this regard,  CBEC  has issued Circular No. 51/2017-Customs 21/12/2017 providing additional time  as follows:

• Ø All entitled Exporters who have acquired RFID e-seals and are stuffing containers at approved premises for export through Ports/ ICDs where facilities for readers are available shall be free to continue / adopt the new e-sealing procedure. Essentially, this implies that the procedure is voluntary for entitled exporters till 1st March 2018.
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• Ø With effect from 1st March 2018 e-sealing shall become mandatory in respect of the exporters, who have been permitted self-sealing facilities under the erstwhile excise procedure or GST regime, AEO exporters and exporters availing supervised stuffing at their premises for the following locations:
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1.    JNCH, Nhava Sheva (INNSA1)
2.    Chennai Port (INMAA1)
3.    Mundra Port (INMUN1)
4.    Hazira Port (INHZA1)
5.    Cochin Port (INCOK1)
6.    Kattupalli, Port (INKAT1)
7.     Kolkata Port (INCCU1)
8.     ICD Tughlakabad (INTKD6)
9.     Tuticorin Port (INTUT1)
10.   Pipavav Port (INPAV1)
11.   Vishakhapatnam Port (INVTZ1)
12.    Krishnapatnam Port (INKRI1)
13.    ICD Bangalore (INWFD6)
14.   ICD Tirupur (INTUP6)
15.    ICD Ludhiana (INLDH6)

Ø e-sealing procedure for all Ports/ ICD’s other than above locations shall be mandatory w.e.f.  1st April  2018.

Members are requested to kindly take note of the above relaxation  and do the needful accordingly. The original circular  is available for download using below hyperlink-

http://www.cbec.gov.in/resources//htdocs-cbec/customs/cs-circulars/cs-circulars-2017/circ51-2017cs.pdf

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

S.G BHARADI
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
CHEMEXCIL