T N C Rajagopalan: Coordinate when aiming to reform

Central Board of Excise and Customs and the Reserve Bank of India should coordinate better

Last November, the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) instructed Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)-enabled Customs Houses to do away with printing of the exchange control copy of a shipping bill (SB) and the export promotion copy. 

This caused some difficulties. The Customs House at Navi Mumbai’s Jawaharlal Nehru port (JNCH) has since clarified a few issues but exporters still face some unnecessary problems.  

CBEC Circular 55 dated November 23, 2016, said one way to make cargo clearance easier was to reduce the use of paper and to introduce electronic messaging and paperless processing. After the Appraiser grants an LEO (Let