Introduction Indian Customs EDI Gateway (ICEGATE) is the gateway for the users of Indian Customs EDI system. All the Individuals (Importers/Exporters/CHAs/Airlines/Shipping Lines/Shipping Agents etc.), trade partners (Banks/Custodians/PQIS/FSSAI etc.) or Govt. Agencies (Ministry of Commerce/DGCI&S/DG, Valuation/DGFT/CRIS/CONCOR/Ministry of Steel etc.) connect ICEGATE for documents filing (BE/SB/IGM/EGM/CGM etc.), data sharing under Customs Business Process (several information shared through messages with the help of Server to Server SFTP communication system) or for administrative, statistical, analytical or policy making purpose through SFTP in automated environment. It provides Remote EDI Services (RES) to the trade and industry for filing documents, data exchange, e-payment, status enquiry, document tracking, query-reply etc. In recent past, ICEGATE has been observing challenges on account of impersonation of Identity of the registered user, tracing the identity of user, misuses of credibility of accredited clients etc. Further, Sec. 5 if the IT Act, 2000 envisages that the electronic documents, which are supposed to be signed by a person in case it is filed in a hard copy, must be singed digitally by the person authorized to sing it. Hence data exchange and acceptability of documents received through RES has imminent need to implement digital signature for the documents/ messages receiving / forwarding electronic to and fro the customs business partners, stakeholders and other Govt. Agencies. Further, demand from the trade and industry, several associations and other Ministries have been received for making Customs EDI business process paperless.
Introduction Indian Customs EDI Gateway (ICEGATE) is the gateway for the users of Indian Customs EDI system. All the Individuals (Importers/Exporters/CHAs/Airlines/Shipping Lines/Shipping Agents etc.), trade partners (Banks/Custodians/PQIS/FSSAI etc.) or Govt. Agencies (Ministry of Commerce/DGCI&S/DG, Valuation/DGFT/CRIS/CONCOR/Ministry of Steel etc.) connect ICEGATE for documents filing (BE/SB/IGM/EGM/CGM etc.), data sharing under Customs Business Process (several information shared through messages with the help of Server to Server SFTP communication system) or for administrative, statistical, analytical or policy making purpose through SFTP in automated environment. It provides Remote EDI Services (RES) to the trade and industry for filing documents, data exchange, e-payment, status enquiry, document tracking, query-reply etc. In recent past, ICEGATE has been observing challenges on account of impersonation of Identity of the registered user, tracing the identity of user, misuses of credibility of accredited clients etc. Further, Sec. 5 if the IT Act, 2000 envisages that the electronic documents, which are supposed to be signed by a person in case it is filed in a hard copy, must be singed digitally by the person authorized to sing it. Hence data exchange and acceptability of documents received through RES has imminent need to implement digital signature for the documents/ messages receiving / forwarding electronic to and fro the customs business partners, stakeholders and other Govt. Agencies. Further, demand from the trade and industry, several associations and other Ministries have been received for making Customs EDI business process paperless.
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