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Circular No.57/2020-Customs

F. No. 450/148/2015-Cus IV(Pt.II)
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
(Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs)
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Room No.229A, North Block.
New Delhi, dated the 30
th
of December, 2020
To,

All Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Customs/ Customs (Preventive),
All Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Customs & Central tax,
All Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners of Customs/ Customs (Preventive),
All Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners of Customs & Central tax.

Madam/Sir,

Subject: Implementation of PGA eSANCHIT– Paperless Processing under SWIFT-Uploading
of Licenses/Permits/Certificates/Other Authorizations (LPCOs) by PGAs - reg.

CBIC`s eSANCHIT application is successfully in operation since 01.04.2018. Aimed at further
reducing physical interface between Customs/regulatory agencies and the trade and to increase the
speed of clearance in both imports & exports, this application provides a facility to upload digitally
signed Licenses/Permits/Certificates/Other Authorizations (LPCOs) by Participating Government
Agencies (PGAs) at all ICES locations across India. In this regard, kindly refer to Board’s Circulars
No. 44/2018-Cus. dated 13.11.2018, No.13/2019-Cus. dated 03.06.2019, No.19/2019-Cus. dated
16.07.2019, No.03/2020-Cus dated 15.01.2020, No.11/2020-Cus. dated 10.02.2020 and
No.24/2020 dated 14.05.2020. Already 51 PGAs have been enabled for uploading their LPCOs on
eSANCHIT. Reference is also invited to Circular No.55/2020-Customs dated 17.12.2020 vide which
Board has decided that w.e.f. 15.01.2021, the supporting documents for justification of claim of duty
exemption notification or fulfilment of a CCR requirement etc, shall be mandatorily required to be
uploaded in eSANCHIT along with the Bills of Entry.

2. Now, 2 more PGA namely Trade Promotion Council of India (TPCI) and Export Promotion
Council for EOUs & SEZs (EPCES) with their LPCOs as detailed below are being brought on board
eSANCHIT platform. With this, the total number of PGAs on Board eSANCHIT as on date becomes
53.
Sr.No.
Document
Code
Document Name
Document Description and
Name of the PGA
PGA
Code

1
861TP1
Certificate of Origin
(Non-Preferential
Certificate of origin (Non-
preferential) is issued by Trade
Promotion Council of India for
certifying goods of India origin.
TPCI
2 101EP1
Membership
Certificate
Membership Certificate issued
by Export Promotion Council for
EOUs & SEZs.
EPCES

3. Since the facility to upload the LPCOs is now being fully made available to above two PGAs,
the beneficiaries (importer/exporters) and customs brokers would not be allowed to upload the
previously issued LPCOs on eSANCHIT w.e.f. 15.01.2021. However, it may so happen that a
beneficiary in possession of an already issued LPCO has so far not uploaded it. Since such
uploading (by the beneficiary) would not be possible after 15.01.2021, to facilitate the beneficiaries,
the above two PGAs are required to upload the LPCOs issued by them during the last 15 days from

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above cut-off date. Additionally, if requested by a beneficiary, LPCOs issued on a prior date may
also be uploaded by the above two PGAs on eSANCHIT.

4. It is reiterated that the PGA will be communicating with the beneficiaries through the e-mail
addresses registered on ICEGATE. Board had also introduced simplified auto registration process
on ICEGATE based on email ids already provided by them for registration under GST without the
use of digital signatures for limited purposes of eSANCHIT (communication and viewing) and the
IRNs will be communicated to such email ids. In this regard, kindly refer to Board’s Circular
No.35/2018 Cus. dated 01.10.2018 and Circular No. 14/2019-Cus. dated 03.06.2019. Since the
facility of beneficiary uploading these documents on eSANCHIT will be deactivated from
15.01.2021, beneficiary registration is of utmost importance. Hence, all the formations are
requested to reach out to the beneficiaries to ensure that correct email addresses are reflected in
the ICEGATE. Special efforts may be taken for wide publicity in this regard.

5. All Pr.Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Customs are requested to issue
public notices. Feedback and queries, if any, may be sent by email to
icegatehelpdesk@icegate.gov.in.

6. Any difficulties, in this regard, may be brought to the notice of the Board.



Yours faithfully,



(Eric.C.Lallawmpuia)
OSD (Customs-IV)