a. If Afghan Transit Cargo is wrongly manifested as Pakistan Cargo

The shipping Company clearly admits that wrong information was fed in the computer due to clerical or typing mistake and that it was not due to want of supply of information on the part of the consignee nor upon request of the consignee and the request is accompanied by Original Bill of Lading or a copy thereof certified by the Shipping Company indicating both Consignee as well as notify addresses as Afghanistan, Invoice, Packing List, Letter of Credit or Jawaznama (all original), and certification of address by Afghan Counsellate in Karachi

b. If the port of Discharge is indicated as Karachi in the Bill of Lading due to which Transshipment cargo is shifted from the Terminal where goods landed, to an off dock station at Karachi instead of Up Country Dry port.

Such requests shall be strictly dealt in line with the provisions of Public Order No. 14/70 dated 9/6/2007

c.     If BL is manifested for wrong City of Pakistan in place of correct City (other than Karachi)

Shipping Company clearly states that the wrong city was fed due to clerical/ Typographical mistake and that the goods/ containers are still lying at the port and the request is accompanied by Original BL or copy thereof certified by the Shipping Company and also Invoice/Packing List certified by the Chamber of Commerce & Industry concerned in proof of the correction required.

d. If city or country change is necessitated due to change in Consignee address

Such requests shall be dealt with in line with the guidelines in a, b & c above.

a.         If wrong BL is fed in the system

Correction shall only be allowed to the extent of typographical errors which do not affect the Clearance of Goods and due to which processing in PACCS is blocked. In cases where a Bill of Lading belonging to another importer or to a different consignment of the same importer is fed into system by an importer or his agent, and Customs come to know of the same prior to delivery of goods in case of System cleared consignments and prior to Examination in case of processing in the Assessment Hall, the goods shall be examined 100% by a team comprising Assistant Collector of Customs and the Surveyor appointed by the Terminal Operator and further action shall be taken in the light of Examination Report by the Assistant Collector Assessments as per following guidelines.

i.              If the request for correction in BL is made by declarant himself, and the goods correspond to the BL provided later the correction shall be allowed subject to any other action which may be necessitated on the basis of Examination report.

ii.    If the complaint is made by the other party whose   clearance of goods is affected by the wrong feeding of BL, the GD filed on the basis of wrong BL shall be cancelled in order to facilitate the filing of declaration by the rightful owner of the BL, but only after initiating proceedings under the relevant provisions of law against the misdeclarant.

If the information is received after the clearance and delivery of goods, action shall be initiated against the mis declarant under relevant provisions of law for feeding wrong information in the PACCS in addition to scrutiny of his past as well a future imports, but GD in that case shall not be cancelled. The importer whose BL has wrongly been used may avail the benefit of the Rules governing Frustrated Cargo and get compensation from the Wrongful declarant through a civil court of competent jurisdiction.

b. If GD is filed with correct BL and VIR but the containers are short shipped.

If the GD is filed prior to filing of the Carrier Declaration & the correction in Carrier Declaration is made by the Shipping Company within the prescribed time limits before sailing out of the concerned ship, the correction in the GD regarding VIR shall be allowed upon request by the importer duly endorsed by the Shipping Company along with the Original BL or copy thereof certified by the Shipping Company as well as the intimation report from the principal office of the shipping company regarding the event of short shipment.

If the correction is not made in Carrier Declaration by the Shipping Company within the prescribed time limits, the correction of VIR shall only be allowed upon supply of the documents enlisted above, after initiating penal proceedings against the Shipping Company under clauses 23&24 of Section 156(1) of the Custom Act, 1969.

c. Wrong NTN is selected from drop-down list by a Clearing Agent who is authorized to file GDs for many importers.

In such a case change of NTN cannot be allowed. GD in such cases shall be cancelled on process completion by customs only if there is no contravention or irregularity found.