Circular No. 24/2022-Customs

CBIC-510450/5/2021-SINGLE WINDOW SECTION CBEC-Part (1)
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
(Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs)

North Block, New Delhi
Dated, 28th November, 2022

To,

Principal Chief Commissioners/Chief Commissioner of Customs/Customs (Preventive), Principal
Chief Commissioners/Chief Commissioner of Customs & Central Tax
Principal Director Generals/Director Generals under CBIC
Principal Commissioners/Commissioners of Customs/Customs (Preventive)

Sir/Madam

Subject: – Improvements in SWIFT: Integration of ICEGATE with AQCS-ICS (Animal
Quarantine and Certification Services-Import Clearance System) effective 01.12.2022 – reg.

Kind reference is invited to Board’s Circulars 09/2015-Cus dated 31.03.2015, 03/2016-
Cus dated 03.02.2016 and 10/2016-Cus dated 15.03.2016, regarding the Indian Customs’ Single
Window. In brief, vide the above referred Circulars –

(a) six Partner Government Agencies (PGAs) were brought on board the Single Window
Interface for Facilitating Trade (SWIFT). This platform enabled importers to lodge their clearance
documents online through ICEGATE at a single point, facilitated risk- based inspection and an
Online NoC from the PGAs could be obtained, without the trader having to approach these
agencies.

(b) these agencies were Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), Plant Quarantine
(PQ), Animal Quarantine and Certification Services (AQCS), Central Drugs Standards Control
Organization (CDSCO), Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), and a lab module for the Textile
Committee (TC) to provide its NOC for live consignments.

2. Under SWIFT, the FSSAI and PQ are connected through online message exchange with
their own systems, while the remaining four PGAs use ICES for providing online NoC. Further,
vide Circular No. 01/2017-Cus dated 04.01.2017, the facility for automatic routing of Bills of Entry
(BOEs) of WCCB for NoC in exports in SWIFT was introduced.

3. Further, the facility of eSANCHIT, was enabled for the importers/exporters to upload all
Licenses, Permits , Controls and Orders( LPCOs) issued by the PGAs and other documents on

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