Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, Dec 12, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, Dec 12, 2002 |
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Supply Chain Management Industry & Economy - Exports & Imports Concor package for exports to Bangladesh Santanu Sanyal
KOLKATA, Dec.11 THE Customs notification, simplifying the procedures for exports to Bangladesh through the land customs stations at Petrapole and Gede in West Bengal, has prompted the Container Corporation of India (Concor) to offer a package of services to promote trade through the route. According to the Customs notification, exporters of goods to Bangladesh by containers can have their export containers stuffed in any of Concor's inland container depots (ICDs) in the country, have the boxes sealed by the Customs authorities concerned in that ICD and moved to Bangladesh through land customs stations simply by having the seals checked by Customs officials posted at the stations. That is to say, if the seals are found intact and the seal numbers tally with shipping bills and AR4 forms, there will be no further Customs examination of the containers at the land customs stations. In other words, the Customs formalities for exports to Bangladesh will be completed at the level of the ICD concerned, once stuffing and sealing have been done. The simplification, according to Concor sources, should encourage more exporters to Bangladesh to avail themselves of Concor's package. Under the package, domestic containers can be used for stuffing the cargo at the originating ICD. The stuffed containers then can be brought by rail from various ICDs in the country to the ICDs located at Cossipore or Shalimar by rail. From Cossipore/Shalimar, the containers will be moved by Concor to the land customs station at Petrapole/Gede by road. At Petrapole/Gede, Concor will arrange for customs clearance at the border and de-stuffing of the materials by manual labour at Benapole located within the Bangladesh territory. For providing the package of services, Concor will charge ex-Shalimar/ex-Cossipore a consolidated fee covering the additional handling of containers at Cossipore/Shalimar, transportation cost of the loaded container to Petrapole and the return of the empties back to Cossipore/Shalimar and the customs clearance and de-stuffing of the boxes at the border. At present, goods movement in railway wagons is permitted between India and Bangladesh but not in containers. That is to say, containers cannot be moved directly by rail into the Bangladesh territory and vice-versa. The present simplification by Customs, it is hoped, will pave the way for movement by containers directly into each other's territory in due course.
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