Recent change in Ad-code rules for exporters
The pain of registering an Ad Code every time an exporter used a different port is history!Â
CBIC has issued an advisory No: 10/2022 dated June 14, 2022, which was in demand from the trade for a long time.
Multiple ports multiple AD-code registrations, delays in export for not having the AD-code registered at the port and many such pains of exporters have been addressed in the advisory.Â
Trade demanded that the AD code had to be registered only once in the Customs for all the port locations, and not every time they used a different port for operations.
Previously, it was mandatory to register the AD Code at every port the document had to be filed. There could be 1 or many AD codes associated with one IEC code at various ports. A whole bunch of documents with KYC and bank letters had to be submitted to each port to register the AD code. Even after the submission of documents, it was at the discretion of the port officer to accept or ask for further documents or reject the registration as a whole.
Now, the Ad code has to be registered at only one port, and thereafter the details would be available to all EDI systems at any port in India. If in case the exporter needs to update the details they can do so through an online request from the ICEGATE portal by logging in to their account. The same AD Code can be used for filling the documents on all the ports. There can still be multiple AD Codes and accounts registered for one IEC, but all of them have to be registered in any one of the ports.
What happens to the existing registered AD codes? Is there Anything exporters need to do?
No, for all existing AD code(s) and associated accounts registered for an IEC, the Customs port, where the last Shipping Bill with a particular AD code was filed, will be taken as the port of registration for that AD code in the System.
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