CBIC directs officers to take steps for alleviating availability of containers

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has directed its officers to expeditiously dispose the unclaimed, uncleared, and confiscated items which can be holding up containers, a transfer aimed toward easing availability of containers for exporters.
In an instruction to its subject officers, the CBIC stated that they need to take proactive steps in order that containers housing imported cargo which can be underneath enquiry are expeditiously launched.
“To continue the emphasis on enhancing the availability of containers, the Board has decided that the field formations also….dispose expeditiously the unclaimed/uncleared/seized/confiscated goods including that are holding up containers following the timelines and procedures prescribed in a Board’s circular,” it stated.

It added that subject formations had reported sure causes comparable to court docket instances, held by intelligence companies for non-release of containers. Exporting group has again and again raised the problem of scarcity of containers because it impacts exports.