New Custom House Public Notice No 215/22 dated 8.3.2022 regarding Filling of Bill of Entry under Project Imports Regulation 1986 at NCH, Mumbai, for information.
All Importers/Exporters, Customs Brokers, Custodians, General Trade, Partner Government Agencies (PGAs), all other stakeholders and taxpayers is invited to the Project Imports Regulations (PIR). 1986, and procedure being followed for registration of contracts and subsequent filling of Bills of Entry covered under Project Imports by NCH, Mumbai.
Under the Project Import Regulations (PIR), 1986, every importer claiming assessment of the goods falling under the heading No. 98.01, on or before their importation applies to the Contract Cell of the port where the goods are to be imported or where the duty is to be paid for registration of the contract or contracts. Said contracts are registered with the Contract Cell based on the Recommendation letter issued by the Ministry Concerned.
The list of Items intended to be imported under the said contract is enclosed duly endorsed with the
said Recommendation Letter. The contract once registered, is entered in the system as a License’, along with the recommendation letter and list of items to be imported under the said contract. Each item to be imported under the contract is assigned a Serial Number such as 1,2,3 etc. or a sub Serial No. such as 3(i), 3(ii) etc, as applicable. The system assigns and generates a License Number for each such contract entered in system.
In this respect, henceforth, the mentioning of the SI. No. and sub SI. No. of the items 4. as per the license, is being made mandatory in respect of the Bills of Entry pertaining to this port. The importers CHAs are hereby directed to make sure that the same are filed properly and without exception. This will help to facilitate ease of reconciliation vis-à-vis the items registered under the contract and the items actually imported, by the contract cell after completion of imports under a particular contract, through the system.
