Guidelines for Direct Port Delivery (DPD) Registration

Inclusions: The following categories of importers may opt for DPD facility-

• Importers who have already been accorded either AEO Tier I, II or III status;
• Importers with a clear track record of compliance and an import volume of 25 Full Container Load (FCL) TEUs through this port in the preceding financial year;
• Importers falling under the aforesaid categories shall furnish information prescribed in DPD application. While in the second criterion is desirable, Pr. Chief Commissioner of Customs, JNCH may, however, in deserving cases of importers, relax the TEU benchmark. Such importers could be the ones whose imports have enjoyed a consistent pattern of customs risk facilitation/who provide an assurance that they would be in a position to pick up containers directly from the terminal. This dispensation may be particularly considered for the MSME sector.

Exclusions: The following categories of importers would be excluded from DPD facility

• Importers against whom a case of mis-declaration of description of goods or of concealment/diversion of imported goods/evasion of duty has been made in the preceding five years;
• Importers facing prosecution proceedings in a matter under the Customs Act, 1962;
• Those importing goods that are subjected to 100% examination in terms of extant policy;
• Importers importing mostly LCL consignments.

Conditions: The facility of DPD shall be extended only to such consignments-

• Which have either been fully facilitated or not subjected to examination; and
• Importers open a PD account with the terminals and arrange for their own transport to take delivery of containers from the terminal; and
• Any other procedural formality prescribed by the zone for better administration of DPD scheme