4.37
Port of Registration
(a) Advance Authorisation shall be issued for purpose of import and export through one of sea ports or airports or ICDs or LCS specified below. Authorisation holder shall register authorisation at the port specified in authorisation and thereafter all imports against said authorisation shall be made only through that port, unless the authorisation holder obtains permission from customs authority concerned to import through any other specified port. However, exports may be made through any of the specified ports.
Sea Ports:
Bedi (including Rozi-Jamnagar),Chennai, Dahej, Dharamtar, Ennore (Tamil Nadu), Haldia, Hazira (Suran) ,Jamnagar, Kakinada, Kandla, Kochi, Kolkata, Krishnapatnam, Mangalore, Marmagoa, Muldwarka, Mumbai, Mundhra, Nagapattinam, Nhava Sheva, Okha, Paradeep [OLD- Paragraphdeep], Pipavav, Porbander, Sikka, Surat (Magdalla), Tuticorin, Vadinar, Vishakhapatnam, Kattupalli Sea Port (Tamil Nadu).
(In above list of sea ports"Hazira (Suran)" has been added vide PUBLIC NOTICE NO.06/2017, DT. 27/04/2017)
(In above list of sea ports"Paradeep" has been amended vide PN. NO.16/2015, DT. 04/06/2015)
Air-ports:
Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Calicut Airport (Kerala), Chennai, Coimbatore Air Cargo Complex, Dabolim (Goa), Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow (Amausi), Mumbai, Nagpur, Rajasansi (Amritsar), Srinagar, Trivandrum, Varanasi, Vishakhapatnam.
ICDs:
Agra, Ahmedabad, Anaparthy, Arakkonam (Tamil Nadu), Bangalore, Babarpur, Bhadohi, Bhatinda, Bhilwara, Bhiwadi, Bhusawal, Chettipalayam (Tamil Nadu), Chheharata (Amritsar), Coimbatore, Dadri, Delhi, Dighi (Pune), Dappar, Dera Bassi, Dhannad Rau (District Indore), Daulatabad, (Wanjarwadi and Maliwada), Durgapur (Export Promotion Industrial Park), Faridabad, Garhi Harsaru, Guntur, Guwahati (Amingaon), Hosur (Tamil Nadu), Hyderabad, Irugur Village (Tamil Nadu), Jaipur, Jallandhar, Jamshedpur, Jodhpur, Kalinganagar and Tumb Village (Taluka Umbergaon, District Valsad), Kanpur, Karur, Kheda (Pithampur, District Dhar), Kota, Kundli, Loni (District Ghaziabad), Ludhiana, Madurai, Mallanpur, Mandideep (District Raisen), Merripalem, Guntur District(AP), Miraj, Moradabad, Nagpur, Nattakkam Village (Kottayam Taluk and District), Nasik, Pimpri (Pune), Pitampur (Indore), Patli (Gurgaon) Pondicherry, Raipur, Rewari, Rudrapur (Nainital), Salem, Singanalur, Surajpur, Surat, Talegoan (District Pune), Thudiyalur (Tamil Nadu), Tirupur, Todiarpet (TNPM), Tuticorin, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Veerapandi (Tamil Nadu), Waluj (Aurangabad).
(ICD : Kalinganagar and Tumb Village (Taluka Umbergaon, District Valsad) has been added vide PN. NO.39/2016, DT. 20/10/2016)
(In ICDs located at Hosur (Tamil Nadu) and Nattakkam Village (Kottayam Taluk and District) are included vide PUBLIC NOTICE NO.20/2016, DT. 01/07/2016 )
LCS:
Agartala, Amritsar Rail Cargo, Atari, Chengrabanda, Dawki, Ghojadanga, Hilly, Jogbani, Mahadipur, Nautanva (Sonauli), Nepalganj Road, Petrapole, Ranaghat, Raxaul, Singhabad, Sutarkhandi.
SEZ:
As notified by Central Government any SEZ can be a specified port for import and export.
(b) Commissioner of Customs may permit imports and exports from any other seaport / airport / ICD or LCS.
(c) For imports from Airport / Seaport / ICD / LCS other than port of registration, a TRA shall be issued by the customs authority at the port of registration to customs authority at port of import. However, this requirement of TRA shall not be required if the port of registration and port(s) of imports are EDI enabled and the authorisation holder has registered its authorization.