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Circular No. 19 /2016 -Customs

F. No. 484 / 03 / 2015 – LC (Pt. 1)
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Excise & Customs
******
New Delhi, the 20
th
May 2016

To,
All Principal Chief Commissioners Customs,
All Principal Chief Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise,
All Chief Commissioners of Customs,
All Chief Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise,
All Directors General, Chief Departmental Representative,
All Principal Commissioners of Customs,
All Principal Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise,
All Commissioners of Customs,
All Commissioners of Customs & Central & Excise.

Sub: Allotment of Warehouse Code for Customs Bonded Warehouses - reg.
Madam/Sir,
Please refer to the changes made in the Finance Act, 2016 to shift towards
record based control with respect to Bonded Warehouses. It is proposed that each
warehouse be allotted a unique warehouse code so that importers can declare the
warehouse in which goods shall be deposited, at the into-bond bill of entry stage.
2. Hence a module has been developed in ICES to capture details of customs
bonded warehouses licensed in each Commissionerate and generate a warehouse
code in the system. The business process is annexed to this circular.
3. Any formation of Central Excise, having control over a customs bonded
warehouse, but not connected on ICES, is directed to forward the list of warehouses
licensed by them to the Principal Commissioner / Commissioner of Customs having
jurisdiction over the nearest EDI enabled Customs station latest by 1
st
June 2016.
These warehouses should be registered by the customs formation following the
procedure annexed.
4. Commissioners at EDI locations are requested to complete this exercise for
existing warehouses, including those referred by central excise formations, latest by
6
th
June, 2016 and confirm the same to the Board.

5. It is proposed to publish the unique warehouse code so generated on the
ICEGATE website for the information of trade. This activity will start from the
10
th
June 2016 and shall be completed by the 15
th
June 2016. From 20
th
June
2016,declaring the Warehousing Code in the Bill of Entry would become mandatory
for filing Into-Bond and Ex-Bond Bill of Entry. As Ex-Bond Bill of Entries with invalid
warehousing code will be rejected, due care may be taken for smooth transition so
as to avoid any hardships to the trade.
6. Difficulties relating to I.T. system, if any, may be brought to the notice of
National System Manager, ICES (nsm.ices@icegate.gov.in).
7. Hindi version follows.

(Temsunaro Jamir)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

Annexure
An option has been provided in AC bond Role [ACB] called import Warehouse entry.
On clicking the option, the system will prompt for the following details:
 Warehouse Name:
 Warehouse Address 1:
 Warehouse Address 2:
 Warehouse City:
 Warehouse State:
 Warehouse Pin:
 Warehouse Licence No:
 Warehouse Licence Date:
 Warehouse License Expiry Date:
 Warehouse Jurisdiction (Customs/Central Excise):
 Warehouse Type (Public/Private/Special):
(U: Public / R: Private / P: Special)
3. On entry of all the aforementioned details from the records available with the
field offices, an eight digit Warehousing Code will be generated for each Warehouse.
The Warehouse code nomenclature is as follows:
1. First 4 characters indicates the EDI port of registration(in case of Customs
Jurisdiction, it would be the jurisdictional customs commissionerate or
nearest Customs Location in case of a customs bonded warehouse
licensed by a Central Excise Commissionerate);
2. Fifth character will denote the type of warehouse;and
3. Sixth, Seventh and Eighth characters are running numeric serial Nos.
[For instance, for a public bonded warehouse under Chennai Air Cargo, the code
generated shall be MAA 4 U 001.]
Pl note: Section 58A has come into force on 14
th
May 2016. As on date no special
warehouses exist. The existing warehouses have been given an option to apply
under section 58A within one month w.e.f from 14
th
May 2016. The entry for Special
Warehouse shall therefore not be applicable till such time that a Special warehouse
comes into existence.