Cotton linters
Cotton linters, raw vegetable fibre residue
HSN 1404 20 00 (Cotton linters) requires a Phytosanitary Certificate at the bill-of-entry stage, issued by the competent plant-protection authority of the exporting country and uploaded in e-Sanchit before customs out-of-charge. No additional sectoral PGA licensing applies, though the phytosanitary clearance is a mandatory customs gate for this plant-origin product.
- Phytosanitary Certificate from exporting country authority
- ITC (HS) policy compliance from DGFT
- 1Obtain a Phytosanitary Certificate (PSC) from the competent plant-protection authority of the exporting country before shipment. Upload the PSC in e-Sanchit under document code 851000 at the bill-of-entry stage; the customs proper officer will verify its presence before granting out-of-charge.Phytosanitary Certificate document code 851000 · CCR mandatory-document instruction
- 2Confirm the consignment is free from quarantine pests and meets phytosanitary conditions as declared on the PSC. Consignments lacking the uploaded PSC at the time of examination are liable to detention pending document submission or re-export.CCR mandatory-document instruction · e-Sanchit document-upload requirement
The sole recurring error on this tariff line is filing the bill of entry before the Phytosanitary Certificate is uploaded in e-Sanchit under code 851000. Cotton linters are a plant-origin product and the PSC is a mandatory pre-OOC document; a bill of entry filed without it will be held by the proper officer, triggering port detention and demurrage. Pre-shipment confirmation that the exporting country authority has issued and dispatched the PSC is essential.