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Circular No.14/2019-Customs
F.No. 450/148/2015-Cus-IV
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
(Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs)
Dated: 3 June, 2019
To
All Principal Chief Commissioners/Chief Commissioners of Customs, Customs &
Central Taxes and Customs (Preventive).
All Principal Commissioners/Commissioners of Customs, Customs & Central Taxes
and Customs (Preventive)
All Participating Government Agencies (PGAs)
Subject: Simplified auto-registration of beneficiaries (IEC holders) on ICEGATE
for eSANCHIT and other benefits — reg.
I am directed to refer to Board's circular No. 35/2018 dated 01.10.2018 wherein it was
stated that CBIC was working towards bringing all the Participating Government Agencies
(PGAs) under eSANCHIT and enable PGAs who issue Licenses, Permits, Certificates and
Other Authorizations (LPCOs) to upload the documents themselves instead of
importer/exporter. The IRN of the uploaded documents would be communicated to the
beneficiary importer/exporter for quoting the same in their declaration. The importers,
exporters, Customs Brokers and other beneficiaries transacting with Customs were, therefore,
requested to come forward and register on ICEGATE Portal. A detailed procedure was also
made available for this purpose.

2 However, the response from the trade has not been encouraging. The matter was
examined in consultation with the Directorate General of Systems. For successful
implementation of PGA-eSANCHIT, it is essential that beneficiaries are registered with
ICEGATE portal. Once the facility of uploading the LPCOs on eSANCHIT by PGAs is
implemented, the beneficiaries will not be allowed to upload the same themselves. Out of 48
PGAs, nodal officers of around 29 PGAs have registered with ICEGATE and will commence
uploading LPCOs shortly.
3. It was reported that one of the bottlenecks in registration was the requirement of
Digital Signature Certificate of beneficiaries. For the effective implementation of PGA-
eSANCHIT and other planned enquiries and interactions, it was decided to simplify the
registration process on ICEGATE for those importers and exporters that do not intend to do
any filing of documents through ICEGATE and would use the login only as an information
and interaction portal.

4. Accordingly, ICEGATE has now introduced simplified auto registration for IEC
holders based on the email ids already provided by them for registration under GST. Detailed
advisory on the same has been placed on the ICEGATE web portal. The simplified procedure
does away with the requirement of the digital signature. However, as has been stated above,
digital signature would be required in case the IEC holder intends to file any declarations
(BE, SB, eSeal manifest etc.) with Customs. Further, the communication of the IRNs
pertaining to LPCOs uploaded by PGAs will also be made to the beneficiaries through the
email ids used for ICEGATE registration.
5: The registration of importers and exporters will also enable direct access to
information related to their consignments for which DG(Systems) is providing several
enquiries under their login. The importers and exporters will get intimation about the status of
their
consignments and PDF copies of their declarations on their registered email ids. The
option of replying to the queries raised by Customs officers, including those raised during
post clearance audit, has also been provided under the login of the IEC holder so as to avoid
the necessity of submitting the same physically at the Service Centre.
6. The importers and exporters operating in your jurisdiction may be asked to
immediately register themselves, if not done already, so as to avail of the above benefits. All
the field formations in your jurisdiction may also be sensitized in this regard and asked to
issue suitable Trade notices.
Yours sincerely
(Maninder Kumar)
OSD (Cus-IV)