To,
Ministry of Finance , Govt of India
North Block,
New Delhi
Dear Sir,
Sub : Appeal to Improve publication of Daily List
of export Import by Indian Customs.
I request you to kindly use your good offices to improve
the Daily List published by Indian Customs.
Daily List gives Indian Exporters Importers exposure in worldwide and Indian
market, thus promotes
excellent networking
& match making. Daily list data, with classification of
products at 8 digit level Harmonized Code, is the oldest & most authentic,
active and accurate B2B platform used for match making across the world ,
across all industries & services.
It
is also the most important & only source of real time – accurate , practical & useful information for
entire Indian Industry associated with Foreign Trade.
It also eliminates
dependence of Govt Statistical Agencies, which lack private initiative ,
expertise & innovativeness and are often incorrect. Ex : DGCI&S, the
nodal statistical agency shows negative growth in Indian Exports of Garments,
after quota regime was removed.
Following improvements are sought :
1)
Restore Names of Indian Companies, and add contact
details like Tel , fax, email.
2)
Restore Names of Vessel, and add Container Nos,
total no of containers, Bill of lading number or Air Way Bill no, and Carrier
Name.
3)
Restore publication of Daily List on Daily basis as
done earlier.
4)
Restore accurate product description with 8 digit
HS Code.
5) Restore
Date
6)
Publish daily List in digital format as done from
Few Customs stations to all Customs stations.
7)
Create a Dedicated Team to Publish Daily List in
every custom station.
8)
Make Customs Publication Team responsible and
liable for completeness.
I have given detailed information below, please do the needful.
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Enclosed : 5 pages.,
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Which
Govt department has the responsibility
to improve Daily List ?
“Office
of the Commissioner of Customs of each Custom Station in India”
Introduction – Daily
List of Export Import
Daily List of Exports Imports is published by
Indian Customs as a Trade Felicitation Measure since 1951.
It started with Bombay, Chennai and Calcutta ports
and later few more ports were added. As the Name suggests, Daily List was
published on a Daily Basis, and a member of trade can subscribe to it on
payment of a nominal subscription charge.
This List is used extensively by Indian and
Overseas Exporters Importers, Trade Journals , Market Research companies, Trade
Bodies, Chambers to network with each other and to keep track of market and plan the future course of action.
The data from Daily list is preferred from DGCI
& S data due to :
a) Presence
of Names of Indian Parties in Daily List , which helped the Industry immensely
to network with each other.
b) Daily
List data was almost real-time basis, compared with 3 to 5 months backlog of
DGCI &S and allowed the Industry to take quick response from the trade.
c) Incorrectness
of DGCI&S data is legendary , due
to absence of Names , it was never possible for Industry to really cross check
the completeness, and data also never matched whenever it was cross checked
with another accurate source of information, like RBI , TEA Board and Global
Trade data sources like Global Trade Atlas and EUSTAT. A Recent & Most striking example how
crippling this situation is from the fact that DGCI &S showing a negative
growth in Textile & Garment Exports during the period – Jan – June 2005 –
after the Quota regime ended.
Importance of Timely and improved publication of
Daily List directly to Trade & Industry is immense , however since last decade , there has been
severe compromise on its publication making it more irrelevant then DGCI& S
data.
The problems exist, though in the last decade
Indian Customs have in fact, made excellent improvements in expanding its EDI
network. Department of Valuation – a Indian Customs endeavor, which monitors
India’s Imports and Exports has coverage of
97 % coverage of Export Import Transactions and receives the
data in real time thru various ports in India. Today , Indian Custom is in position to release National data on a
daily basis, to members of trade.
The Leading World economies have created / upgraded
Customs infrastructure to monitor their Export Import Trade and many countries US , China , Korea , Latin American
countries release Daily List on same
day basis.
Please click the link to see more details.
http://www.dailylistusers.org/samples/reports.htm
Benefits of Daily List of Exports Imports
1) Helps
Networking between Overseas buyers , suppliers , Indian Exporters Importers and
Indian Service providers. Networking of active players ultimately
results in the Economy becoming more mature with wider choices, competitive
costs , efficient service, high quality , cost savings, improved volumes,
quicker turnaround times, less bad debts etc.
2) Availably
of Highly Accurate & real time data directly to Industry , helps private
research companies bring out highly useful and useful product wise analytical
research reports.
Example : Minerals & Metal Review , Metal Bulletin
, Polymers Weekly , Chemical Weekly.
3) It
helps the Industry plan better, forecast better.
Example : Minerals & Metal Review , Metal Bulletin
, Polymers Weekly , Chemical Weekly.
4) Eliminates
dependence of Govt Statistical Agencies, which lack private initiative &
innovativeness and often incorrect.
Ex : DGCI&S, the
govt statistical agency showing negative growth in Garments exports after quota
regime was removed.
5) Import
Value Research helps the Economy to Import more carefully at right price.
6) Export
Value Research helps the Economy to price its product competitively.
7) Import
Qty Research helps the Economy import exact quantities required , thus avoid on
surplus inventories. Eg ; Recent mad rush to import Electronics products from
China by some Delhi based importers which later become bankrupt due to huge
inventories and losses.
8) Identify
better markets and sources of supply :
reduces overcrowding and over dependence.
9) Identify
Products for Import Substitution.
10) Basically
helps the Industry to stay competitive and plan and act intelligently at
optimum level.
Improvement Required :
1) Restore Names and add contact details :
In 1951 , when the
publication of Daily List started , ( CBR Notification no 82, of 26th
Nov 1951) Name of company was probably sufficient to identify a Indian company
, today with more then 3.5 lakhs Indian
Exporters Importers, contact details like Tel, Fax, Email , contact Person are
essential to network.
Instead of improvement
in format by adding contact details like Tel , Fax, email ids, Indian Customs
have stopped releasing the Indian company names , a 55 year old practice carried on since 1951.
Why Indian Companies names and contact details like Name of company, address , Tel nos , Contact
Person , Email etc should be
included ?
Ans : Helps Industry network
with Right & Active players.
Daily list data, with
classification of Transactions at 8 digit level Harmonized Code , is the oldest & most authentic , active
and accurate B2B platform used for match making across the world , across all
industries & services.
Networking of active
players ultimately results in the Economy becoming more mature with wider
choices, competitive costs , efficient service, high quality , cost savings,
improved volumes, quicker turnaround times, less bad debts etc.
US , China , Korea and
many other countries release data with Complete Name & address , email ,
thus making their economies more mature and competitive and giving their
Exporters Importers wide exposure in world market.
i)
Overseas Buyer or supplier use this data to contact
Indian companies.
ii)
Indian Manufactures who do not export directly, use
this data to identify active Indian Exporters / Merchant Exporters to offer
their products.
iii)
End users , manufacturers, Wholesalers and
distributors who want to source products from world use this data to identify
active Indian Importers to source their requirements quickly & efficiently.
iv)
Brings down the cost of services dramatically as
all service providers compete with each other to provide best service at lowest
price : This data is used by Service
Providers to market their services like Banks , Freight Forwarders , Custom
House Agents, Courier companies, Logistic companies, Shipping agents ,
Indenting Agents , DEPB Exim dealers, Import Export Consultants.
v)
Used by Private Publishers to publish highly
accurate Business Directories , which again results in benefits to all.
vi)
Used by various Govt and Non Govt agencies like
Sales Tax , Income Tax to cross check the returns and check malpractices.
Reason why the Names were stopped
Based on complaints
received from few individual exporters Importers, the names of Indian Parties
in Daily List data was removed. The
argument put forward was that presence of names, reveal the confidential
details of their transactions, like value and qty etc.
By all means the
complainants must have acted in good faith and are not aware of what actually
should be stopped and the enormous benefits, Daily data used to provide to
Indian Foreign Trade since 55 years.
What actually should be
curbed is illegal pilferage of Invoices , Shipping Bills, Bill of Entry which
contain sensitive & confidential
data of Overseas Parties Names. Leakage of this information which hurts the
business is very rampant with corrupt office bearers, and stopping of a official and legal source of information
channel like Daily List , which is the need of industry , has in fact fuelled
the corrupt malpractices more.
Protecting third party secrecy is important but it is equally important to consider :
·
if such release of information serves national
interest ?
·
If a “tradition” exists of publishing of such
information ?
·
Does such “tradition” existed for a considerable
period of time of 55 years or more ?
·
Has such tradition has resulted in a large user
base and dependent Industry ?
· Petitions of members of trade requesting such release.
2) Restore Names of Vessel, and add Container Nos and
total no of containers, Air Way Bill no or Bill of lading no and Carrier Name..
Indian Customs has
stopped released Names of Vessel.
In 1951 , when the
publication of Daily List started, Name of Shipping Vessel was enough to
identity the Shipping company, and Weight was enough to understand the volume.
Today with
containerization of cargo, total container s and Container Nos , Air Way Bill
or Bill of lading no , carrier name are real indicators for Shipping Industry.
In keeping with the
changes times, Daily List data should include the above information.
3) Restore publication of Daily List on Daily basis as
done earlier.
Daily List as the name
suggests was published on a daily basis by Indian Customs. World over it is
published on a Daily basis.
Since few year , Ports
have started publishing Daily List once in a month ..citing lack of manpower
and have converted it into a monthly list.
4) Restore accurate product description with HS Code:
Earlier the complete Description of Goods was released with 8 digit HS Code, these days with computerization the description fields runs into three fields : Desc1, Desc2, Desc3. Some ports release data of only of the first Restore Date
out important details in desc2 and desc3.
Similarly the
Description of Goods , constitutes 8 digit harmonized Code of products, recently some ports have misinterpreted the
notification and do not release the HS code, which make it impossible to
categorize the data, This has made the
data useless and worse then DGCI&S Data.
All the Ports should release Description of Goods of 3 product fields and with
8 digit HS Code.
5) Restore Date :
Daily List as name suggest was issued on daily basis and was marked for
which date it was published, however
with computerization now the data of multiple dates is mixed , hence the date
has to be included . Some Customs stations release date , some do not, causing
confusion.
6) Publish daily List in digital format :
Few Customs stations publish 100% of all transactions in digital format. This
includes data which is not on EDI
, is “manually filed” . They do so by
converting them in digital format.
Few Customs stations
publish part data in digital format, and leave out the manual filed portion
unpublished.
Few
Customs stations just do not publish at all.
This severely impacts flow of information to trade. All Customs stations should publish Daily List is digital format to allow proper analysis.
7) Create a Dedicated Team to Publish Daily List in
every custom station.
Absence of dedicated
manpower is the root cause of this problem.
A Dedicated Team to take care of digital conversion , publication , subscription needs to be created in all the custom
stations.
Ports which publish data
:
JNPT , Bombay , Kolkata,
Delhi, Chennai, Mangalore, Visakhpatnam, Cochin.
Ports which do not
publish data are :
Agra , Ahmedabad , ALANG
SBY , Allepey , Amingaon(Gauhati) ,Amritsar , Anaparthi , Aroor
Azhikkal ,Babarpur ,
Bagdogra, Bahabal Pur, Bangalore, Banglore Air Cargo, Bareilly, Baroda
Belekeri, Betul,
Bhatinda, Bhavanagar, Bhilwara, Bhiwadi , Bhubaneswar , Broach , C.H. Kozikode,
Chennai (EPZ/SEZ) ,
Chinchwad ( ICD) , Chirala , Cochin (EPZ/SEZ) , Coimbatore , Coondapur
(Ganguly) , Cuddalore , Dabhol Port , Dabolim ,Dahanu ,Dahej ,Daman & Diu ,
Dadri, Dharamtar ,
Dighi(Pune) , Div ,
Ennore , Falta (EPZ/SEZ) , Faridabad , Gaya , Goa Sea , Gogha , Gopalpur ,
Haldia
Hassan (EPZ/SEZ) ,
Hyderabad , Hyderabad Air Cargo , Imphal , Indore, Indore (EPZ/SEZ), Jafrabad
Jaipur , Jaipur ICD ,
Jakhau , Jalandhar, Jalgaon, Jamshedpur (ICD), Jodhpur ,Jodia , Kakinada,
Kandla
Kandla (EPZ/SEZ)
,Kanpur, Kapadra(Surat) , Karaikal, Karedu, Karipur(Calicut), Khopta (EPZ/SEZ),
Koka, Kota ,
Krishnapatnam, Lucknow , Ludhiana , Magdalla, Mahuva , Malanpur(Gwalior),
Malpe,
Mandapam ,Mandvi ,Mangalore,
Mangalore Sea, Mangrol , Margao ,Maroli , Masulipatnam ,Meerut
Minicoy Island,
Moradabad (EPZ/SEZ) , Muldwarka, Mulund, Mumbai (EPZ/SEZ), Mundra, Nagapattinam
, Nagpur, Nasik, Navlakhi, Neendakara, Noida (EPZ/SEZ), Noida-Dadri (ICD),
Okha, Pakwara
(Moradabad), Panaji Port, Paradeep, Patna, Patrapole , Pimpri, Pindhara,
Pithampur,
Pondicherry, Porbandar,
Pune, Raddipalem, Raipur, Rajasansi(Amritsar), Rajkot, Rameshwaram, Ranpar,
Ratnagiri, Redi, Revdanda, Rexaul, Sabarmati ICD, Sachin(Surat), Saharanpur,
Salaya,
Salem, Salt Lake
(EPZ/SEZ), Sikka, Singnallur, Srinagar,Surat (EPZ/SEZ), Tadri, Talaja,
Tellichery,
Tiruchirapalli,Tirukkadayyur,Tirupur,Trivendrun
Air Cargo,Tuna,Tuticorin Sea, Udaipur, Umbergoan,
Vadinar, Valinokkam,
Vansi-Borsi, Vapi, Varanasi, Varanasi, Vazhinjam, Veppalodai, Veraval, Vizac
Sea, Waluj(Aurangabad), Wagah, & Private Ports Pipapav, Adani.
It is very difficult to
plan a businesses strategy , without a national information., hence each
Customs station should publish the data.
8) Make Customs Publication Team responsible and
liable for completeness.
The Daily List published
is never complete, and there is no
mechanism available to confirm or cross check that it is complete or
incomplete.
The only way to cross
verify if one had made shipments in that day and could cross verify with
comparing with one’s own shipments listed in that day, and it was always found that Daily List did
not contained complete records.
With Names being stopped
in Daily List , such cross verification is also not possible these days.
A Senior rank officer of
Publication Team of Customs, responsible for data entry ,publication , mailing,
subscription should certify that the daily list is complete after cross
checking no of transaction taken place of all modes and no of transactions
listed.