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Circular No 35/2018-Customs
F.No. 450/148/2015-Cus-IV
Government of India
Ministry of Finance,
Department of Revenue
(Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs)
OF HB 2s ok 2
Room No. 229 A, North Block,
New Delhi, Dated 01* October, 2018
To
All Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Customs/Customs & Central Tax/
Customs (Preventive)
All Principal Commissioners/Commissioners of Customs/ Customs & Central Tax/ Customs
(Preventive)
All PGAs
Subject: Advisory circular for registration of beneficiaries on ICEGATE — regarding.
Sir/Madam,
1 Customs has introduced Single Window Interface for facilitating Trade (SWIFT) as
part of ease of doing business initiative to integrate Customs and other Participating
Government Agencies (PGAs) for seamless processing of import and export
clearances. One of the component of SWIFT is e-SANCHIT. Under eSANCHIT, the
system allows a trader to submit all supporting documents for clearance of
consignments electronically with digital signatures. This obviates the need for the
trader to approach different regulatory agencies with hardcopies of the documents,
thereby making the entire process of consignment clearance faceless and paperless. It
has been made mandatory that all the importers are required to upload the documents
relating to regulatory compliances electronically from 01° April, 2018 onwards.
Shortly eSANCHIT facility will be extended to exports also, for which a pilot is
underway.
2. Further, CBIC is embarking on a project under SWIFT to bring all the Participating
Government Agencies (PGAs) under eSANCHIT wherein instead of
importer/exporter the PGAs who issue Licences, Permits, Certificates and Other
Authorizations (LPCOs), will upload the documents themselves.
3; Once the LPCO is uploaded by a PGA, a unique IRN (Image reference number) will
be generated by the system and the same will be communicated to the beneficiary. For
availing this facility, the email id of the beneficiaries registered with ICEGATE will

be used. In future, a view facility will also be available, wherein a beneficiary will be
able to view the documents uploaded by the PGAs during a given period.
A pilot is expected to be launched shortly for testing the eS ANCHIT facility for PGAs
with three PGAs. Thereafter on successful testing, the facility will be extended to all
the PGAs. Once the facility of uploading the document on eSANCHIT by PGAs is
implemented, the beneficiaries (importer/exporter) will not be allowed to upload such
documents themselves.
Therefore, all the importers/exporters, Customs brokers or any other beneficiary
transacting with Customs are requested to come forward and register on ICEGATE. A
detailed procedure on registration is available at ICEGATE website under the path
www.icegate.gov.in > Downloads > Registration Demo.

Yours sincerely
(Maninder Kumar)
OSD (Cus-IV)
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