Departments of commerce, revenue, BCAS formulating SOP for e-commerce export hubs
BCAS), are working on formulating a standard operating procedure (SOP) to enable the operationalisation of e-commerce export hubs in the country, an official said. The commerce ministry has already approved five applications of DHL, Lexship, goGlocal, logistics aggregator Shiprocket, and air cargo handling company Cargo Service Centre to set up these hubs, the government official said.
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While DHL has been assigned Bengaluru, goGlocal's hub will come up in Mumbai. Shiprocket and Cargo Service Centre's hubs will come up in and around Delhi airport.
«Department of Revenue, BCAS and Department and Commerce are working on issues like earmarking of space, what all facilitation these hubs will require, and how to do security clearances of goods. On all these issues, they are preparing an SOP. Once that is finalised, they will start operations,» the official said.
The hubs will have facilities for expedited customs and security clearance in-house. Provision for quality and certifying agencies will also happen within the hub.
It will also have an easy re-import policy to enable the return of ecommerce consignments and rejects without payment of import duty.
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