JNCH, BCBA unite to focus on faceless assessment in customs

To focus on faceless assessment in customs and re-inforce the trade facilitation measures, Jawaharlal Nehru Customs House (JNCH) and Brihanmumbai Custom Brokers Association (BCBA) conducted an intteractive open house session for trade and industry, exporters and importers at IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry. To facilitate EODB, various initiatives were discussed such as providing the statutory timelines for clearance of import and export cargo, use of IT tools and EDI System to mitigate the delays, reduce the number of queries, create non-intrusive examination process, requirement of a Nodal officer, Transparency regarding clearance of goods under CAROTAR rules 2020.
One of the important requests made on behalf of trade was to create a comprehensive escalation mechanism in digital format to help the trade and industry for quick redressal of the pending import consignments.
President BCBA, Dushyant Mulani gave a detailed presentation based on the feedback received from the industry. While addressing the gathering CCC, JNCH Rajesh Pandey announced the issuance of PN NO 46/2024 – Midyear special drive (MSD) which will help to expedite the clearances substantially and also help to identify and remove the bottleneck faced by the trade. He further conveyed that this meeting is being held at the behest of the request made by FFFAI for revamping the faceless assessment structure and for gathering the feedback and understanding of real time issues was vital. He thanked BCBA for organising the meeting with trade and conveyed that accurate declaration along with documents would be essential to reduce the dwell time. He further emphasised on the aspects of providing principles of natural justice to the trade and industry under faceless and conveyed that Custom Brokers and the Association being partners to the Customs Dept., need to work for faster turnaround of import and export cargo to make the logistics in the country efficient.