• The Central Board for Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC) has launched a portal to provide information on customs procedures and regulatory compliance.

• The Indian Customs Compliance Information Portal (CIP) at www.cip.icegate.gov.in/CIP will provide free access to information on all Customs procedures and regulatory compliance for nearly 12,000 Customs Tariff Items.

• The portal would also have information related to partner government agencies like FSSAI, drug controller, etc to carry out imports and exports.

• It would provide complete knowledge of all import and export related requirements for all items covered under the Customs Tariff at the click of a button, thereby improving the ease of doing cross border trade.

• For using CIP, one can simply enter either the Customs Tariff Heading (CTH) or the description of the goods in question to get information about step-by-step procedures, regulatory compliance requirements like licence, certificates, etc for imports as well as exports.

• This includes import and export through posts and courier, import of samples, reimport and re-export of goods, self-sealing facility for exporters and project imports.

• Another important feature of CIP is a pan-India map showing all the Customs seaports, airports, and land customs stations, etc. 

• It also contains addresses of the regulatory agencies and their websites.

Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs

• Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (erstwhile Central Board of Excise & Customs) is a part of the department of revenue under the ministry of finance. The Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) was restructured as CBIC when GST was implemented in 2017.

• It deals with the tasks of formulation of policy concerning levy and collection of customs, central excise duties, Central Goods & Services Tax and IGST, prevention of smuggling and administration of matters relating to customs, central excise, Central Goods & Services Tax, IGST and narcotics to the extent under CBIC’s purview. 

• The Board is the administrative authority for its subordinate organisations, including Custom Houses, Central Excise and Central GST Commissionerates and the Central Revenues Control Laboratory.

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