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EDI SYSTEM |
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Coping with the
increasing imports/exports and rising to the need of the hour, the Bangalore
Customs decided to computerize the manual process of assessment of Bills of
entry, clearing of shipping bills for export. This gave birth to the EDI
(Electronic Data Inter-change System) wherein all the documents
relating to exports and imports are being processed
on-line. Initially from 26th February 1998 all the shipping bill except relating
to EPCG, 100% EOU, DEEC, DEPB, Pass Book and all export
cases was introduced in the Indian Customs EDI
System. The Public Notice No.12/98 dated 19.2.98 was
issued indicating to the public, importers,
Custom House Agents about introduction of EDI
for exports and the procedure to be followed by them. The imports were
introduced to the system from 19.11.1998. All the bills of entry are being
processed on-line under the EDI system. At present all types of bills of
entry except the following: viz., Diplomatic goods, Un-accompanied baggage,
Import of goods under export related schemes, e.g., 100% EOUs, EPCG
Scheme, EPZ, STP, EHTP, Duty Exemption
Pass Book Scheme, DEEC Duty
Exemption Certificate and
imports for research purposes are
being processed on the EDI System. The introduction to this into the imports
was brought to the notice of the public agents and the importers by issue of
public notice 112/98 dated 13.11.98 and 113/98 dated 16.11.98. The Electronic
Data Interchange System has tremendous benefits for all concerned. On a daily
average, the Bangalore Customs processes about 1660 numbers of Shipping Bills
and 1820 numbers of Bills of entry on the EDI system. Processing of shipping
bills on the EDI system takes about maximum of 20 minutes and bill of entry
would take 10 minutes. From September 2000, all shipping bills are being
processed on EDI system. The EDI system is being manned by young officers of
Customs headed by the System Manager, equal to the rank of Additional
Commissioner of Customs. The biggest benefit accruing out of EDI is the
reduction of physical contact between the Department and the importers /
agents apart from fast processing of documents which reduce cycle time of
clearance. Customs introduced
online filing of Bill of Entry / Shipping Bills in 2002 through its
E-Commerce portal www.icegate.gov.in.
Currently, customs has migrated EDI from the existing ICES version 1.0 to
ICES version 1.5, which is running on a central server. The RMS facility has
been extended to import consignments under ICES version 1.5 and for export
consignments, it is yet to be implemented. The e-payment module is on the
anvil and is likely to be rolled out very shortly. The country wide network
based on MPLS technology has also been built connecting all officers of
Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax in 1200 buildings in 245
cities. Risk Management System (RMS)
was also introduced in Bangalore Customs in August 2006. |
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