Friday, July 24, 2015

Merchant Exporter - Impact on Plant Approval and Shipment Clearance Certificates

Prerequisite

  • User must be a merchant exporter
  • User  must have added one or more supporting units, as explained here.

Plant Approval Certificate

After user has added one or more supporting units, user can apply for plant approval certificate.
On the plant approval certificate screen, the added supporting units will be clearly shown, as below:

User's application for plant approval will go to the regional office based on the plant's state and district, and not that of supporting unit.  Accordingly, approval number will be allotted.

Date of expiry
For all supporting units, system will find the maximum expiry date.  There are two conditions:
  1. If this maximum date is less than one year, then the plant approval certificate's expiry is set to this date.  
  2. If this maximum date is greater than one year, then the plant approval certificate's expiry is set to one year from the date of issue.

Final PDF Certificate
Supporting Unit information will be included in the final PAC PDF certificate, as below.

Shipment Clearance Certificate

  1. While applying for shipment clearance, user (merchant exporter) will be asked to select their supporting unit as a mandatory input. 
  2. User must first Save the shipment clearance certificate. 
  3. User then should go back to their SCC listing (Edit menu > Apply for Certificate > Shipment Clearance), and then click on Open button, as below
  4. User is then supposed to Upload confirmation letter from the supporting manufacturer. If this is missing, form won't submit for the merchant exporter.
  5. Below there, regional office is also shown, based on supporting unit that was selected.
  6. Accordingly, shipment clearance application shall be approved by the regional administrator.
  7. The shipment clearance certificate approval number shall be allotted based on supporting unit selected, as defined in 5,6 above.
  8. Finally, on the generated PDF of shipment clearance certificate, the supporting unit details will be shown as below:

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