Attention of all Exporters/Custom House Agents and other members of the trade is invited to the existing procedure of filing export documents under the Indian Customs EDI System-Exports wherein after submission of Annexure-A/B at the Service Center, the exporter or his agent is required to present the goods for registration at the examination shed accompanied by information regarding the number of packages, bill of lading, gross/net weight, etc., in the prescribed form i.e. Annexure-C (normal export Cargo) /Annexure-C1 (exports by EOUs). Suggestions have been received from the field formations as well as from the trade to modify this procedure because of errors in entering Annexure-C/C1 details by the Examiners/Inspectors at the time of registration. Such errors are sometimes detected only after the printed shipping bill is made available to the Superintendent/Appraiser has given the Shipping Bill to the Exporter/CHA after let export order. Carrying out corrections in the shipping bill at this stage results in lot of avoidable inconvenience to the Exporters/CHAs.

It has therefore been decided to give an option to the Exporters/CHAs to file the Annexure-C/C1 details at the Service Center alongwith the Annexure-A/B details. It may be noted that Annexure C/C1 particulars have to be filed alongwith Annexure-A/B details and the printed check list would contain the complete information of Annexure-A/B and C/C1 for verification by the Exporter/CHAs before submission of the shipping bill. In case, the Annexure-C/C1 information is not filed alongwith the Annexure-A/B in the Service Center, the Exporter/CHA will continue to have the option of filing this information at the time of registration of goods at the export shed. Option to amend any of the Annexure-C/C1 parameters for which data entry was done

at Service Center, would continue to be available at the time of registration of goods.

The ICES-Export software is being amended accordingly. The date of introduction of this facility would be communicated by a separate Public Notice shortly.