Government sets up CCFCs at ports to expedite customs clearance
Source: PTI The government has set up Customs Clearance and Facilitation Committees (CCFCs) at ports to ensure expeditious customs clearance of goods to improve ease of doing business for traders. “Ease of doing business: Customs Clearance and Facilitation Committees in ports bringing in systemic improvements. It’s a recent initiative,” Revenue Secretary Shaktikanta Das said in a tweet. It will facilitate trade at all the major customs seaports and airports. Welcoming the move, exporters body Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) said the move will help in getting faster clearances from different agencies. “Traders take clearances from different agencies for exports and imports. These committees will help in resolving matters related to clearances. Any delay in this process impacts traders,” FIEO ...
24x7 Customs clearance at specified sea ports and air cargo complexes
Dated 31st December, 2014 | Circular no. 19/ 2014-Customs | Attention is invited to Board Circular No.22/2012-Customs, dated 07.08.2012 and subsequent Instruction No.3, dated 31.05.2013 on the subject of 24x7 Customs clearance facility at specified sea ports and air cargo complexes for identified categories of import and export goods. 2. Finance Minister has in the Budget Speech for 2014-15 announced that the 24x7 Customs clearance facility would be deepened and extended. Thus, the existing 24x7 Customs clearance facility would be made available to 13 more airports in respect of all export goods and to 14 more sea ports in respect of specified import and export goods. 3. Board has undertaken detailed inter-ministerial consultations to ensure stakeholder participation in making ...
