Circular No. 08/2023 dated 13 March 2023

Key Pointers –

• In order to make stakeholders more effective identification of products and equipment covered in the Notification No. 57/2017-Customs dated 30.06.3017 at (b) to (h), amongst (a) to (h), and in consultation with the Department of Telecommunications, the same is illustrated in Annexure - 1.
• In terms of the Bill of Entry (Electronic Integrated Declaration and Paperless Processing) Regulations 2018, an identification of products/equipment under 85176290 and 85176990 shall be enabled from the time of filing of import declarations itself, for which an alpha numeric code/identifier as provided for in Annexure -2 will need to be additionally declared in bill of entry by the importer with effect from 01.04.2023.