7.19 The licence and the DEEC book for the Advance Licence shall be issued for the purpose of import and export through one of the sea ports or airports or ICDs specified below. The licence holder shall register the licence / DEEC at the port specified in the licence / DEEC and thereafter all imports against the said licence / DEEC shall be made only through that port, unless he obtains permission from the customs authority concerned to import through any other specified port. However, exports may be made through any of the specified ports.

Sea Ports: Mumbai, Calcutta, Cochin, Kandla, Mangalore, Marmagoa, Chennai, Nhavasheva, Paradeep, Tuticorin Vishakhapatnam, Kakinnada, Surat(Magdalla), Sikka and Pipavav

Air-ports Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Calcutta, Delhi, Jaipur, Varanasi, Srinagar, Trivandrum, Hyderabad, Chennai, Coimbatore Air Cargo Complex, and Bhubaneshwar,

ICDs: Bangalore, Coimbatore, Delhi, New Gauhati Goods Shed, Moradabad, Ludhiana, Hyderabad, Pimpri (Pune), Kanpur Pitampur (Indore), Agra, Faridabad, Jaipur, Guntur, Nagpur Varanasi, and Surat, Jodhpur, Salem, Tirupur, Singanalur, Waluj, Mallanpur.

The Commissioner of Customs may, either by a public notice or on the written request of the licence holder, by a special order and subject to such conditions as may be specified by him, also permit imports and exports from any seaport / airport / ICD or land custom station other than those mentioned above.

In such cases, where the licence and DEEC Book have not been registered at the port specified in the licence / DEEC and no import has taken place, the request for change in the Port of Registration may be considered by the licensing authority concerned provided the licence has not been redeemed and / or made transferable.

For imports from the Airport / Seaport / ICD other than the port of registration, a Telegraphic Release Advice(TRA) shall also be issued by the customs authority at the port of registration to the customs authority at the port of import.

Note:

The UN location codes in respect of the ports mentioned above are given at S.No.11 in Appendix 1 of the Handbook. However, for the sea ports/Air ports/ICDs where UN location codes are not available the applicants may file their application using “ 99-Miscellaneous” as code . It shall be the responsibility of the licensing authority concerned to indicate the actual port at the time of issue of Licence.