CBIC Allows Export Of Goods From Bangladesh To India By Rail In Closed Containers Which Are Coming Back To India

The Board has got references from several ministries and commerce to enable the rail transportation of containerized freight from Bangladesh into India. A request was also received from Bangladesh's High Commissioner in New Delhi, who informed that containers travelling from India to Bangladesh by rail are returning empty after delivering India's export goods. The carrier will be Indian Railways trains travelling between India and Bangladesh, bringing India's containerized export products to Bangladesh and returning to India with Bangladesh's export goods in the same containers. The Import Report shall capture, inter alia, details of the destination ICD, the serial number of each container carrying export goods from Bangladesh and the serial number of the ECTS seals which shall be put on such containers, in the manner prescribed by the said Commissioner. Customs must compare the ECTS seal number to the number recorded in the import report and the ECTS seal integrity after the containers have been sealed and the import report has been filed.officer at the LCS shall make an entry in the ICES System acknowledging the arrival of the train, upon which the bond shall be debited for an amount determined on the basis of the details available in the Import Report.