The Central Board of Excise & Customs has now allowed exporters the facility of self-sealing containers at their own premises subject to the condition that they use electronic seals (Circular number 26/2017, dated 1st July 2017). This system has replaced the earlier procedure, where exporters had the facility for requesting an officer of Central Excise Department to be present at their premises at the time of stuffing a container and sealing it using a one-time mechanical bolt seal. This procedure permits export of goods without any examination at the port.

The specifications/requirements of the seals to be used under the new self-sealing procedure has been prescribed under circular 36/2017 dated 28th August 2017. The specifications of the seal are:

“The RFID seal shall conform to ISO 17712:2013 (H) and ISO/IEC 18000-6 Class 1 Gen 2 which is globally accepted in industrial applications and can be read with the use of UHF (i.e. 860 MHz to 960 MHz) Reader-Scanners. The manufacturer or vendor, as the case may be, shall be in possession of certifications required for conformance of the ISO standard ISO 17712:2013 (H) namely, clauses 4, 5 and 6.”

Exporters are now required to purchase RFID seals, which conform to the above standards directly from vendors. Warner E-Seals conform to this standard.

CBEC permits automatic self-sealing facility to four categories of exporters:
(a) All Authorized Economic Operators (AEOs)
(b) All Exporters who already have self-sealing permission
(c) All Exporters who have been availing the facility of sealing in the presence of a central excise officer.
(d) Status Holders recognized by DGFT holding a valid status holder certificate. All other exporters are also eligible for this facility provided they seek permission from their jurisdictional customs office. An officer of the Customs Department will visit the exporter’s premises for verification as a part of the process of allowing permission for self-sealing. The Customs Department has made a performance pledge to decide on one’s application for self-sealing within 15 days.

We strongly encourage all exporters and AEO’s to start this self-sealing procedure, as this would avoid examination at CFS, save time and thousands of rupees.

Our system ensures maximum security and convenience of your container’s access to ports and ICDs.  Warner E-Seals shall provide handheld readers at all Ports / ICDs. Upon arrival of the container, the seal will be scanned using our Warner E-Seals reader. The data on the seal will be uploaded in immediately to our secure servers for an integrity check. The containers, whose seals are intact, will receive Direct Port Entry (DPE), allowing the container to be taken through a CFS.

We have deployed specialized readers meant for use by Indian customs. The data downloaded from RFID Warner E-Seals is securely read on the device and simultaneously uploaded on secure servers for access by custom officers. However, you will have access to read your shipment data by using a log in ID and password, which will be provided to you on registration.