Deposit in and removal of goods from Customs bonded Warehouse.

To

Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners/ Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners of Customs

Subject: Electronic sealing – Deposit in and removal of goods from Customs bonded Warehouse.

Madam/Sir,

The Warehouse( Custody and Handling of Goods) Regulations, 2016, the Special Warehouse( Custody and Handling of Goods) Regulations, 2016, Warehoused Goods( Removal) Regulations, 2016, Manufacture, and Other Operation in Warehouse (no.2) Regulations,2019 and Circular 17/2016-Cus prescribe the affixation of a one-time lock for transport of goods to be deposited in a warehouse or removed therefrom.

2. The regulations require that goods arriving at the warehouse from a customs station shall be affixed with a one-time-lock with its serial number endorsed upon the bill of entry for warehousing and the transport document. The warehouse keeper or the bond officer, as the case may be, is required to inspect the seal and when it is found intact, permit the goods to be unloaded at the warehouse. Circular 17/2016-Cus  dated 14th May 2016 prescribes that in case of the removal of goods from a customs station for deposit into a warehouse, the container or means of transport (closed trucks ) should be affixed with a one-time-lock by the proper officer at the customs station. A similar procedure has been provided under the Warehoused Goods( Removal) Regulations, 2016, for removal of warehoused goods from one warehouse to another and from a warehouse to a customs station for export and also the Manufacture and Other Operations in Warehouse(no.2) Regulations,2019. Also, the Principal Commissioner of Customs/Commissioner of Customs is duly empowered to permit movement of goods without affixation of OLTs, where the nature of goods or their manner of transport so warrant ( e.g. Liquid Bulk Cargo transport through Pipe Lines and Over Dimensional Cargo).

3. Subsequently, the Board has prescribed RFID self-sealing for export containerized cargo. Circulars 36/2017, 37/2017 and 41/2017- Customs prescribe the use of ”RFID tamper-proof one-time-bolt seal” and providing for readers/ procedure for its use by Customs. 

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