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Rough fir and spruce wood, large cross-section logs
HSN 4403 23 90 (rough fir and spruce wood with smallest cross-sectional dimension 15 cm or more) is subject to a mandatory Phytosanitary Certificate requirement administered by the plant-quarantine authority under the Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) Order, 2003. The Phytosanitary Certificate (document code 851000) must be uploaded in e-Sanchit before customs out-of-charge.
- Phytosanitary Certificate from exporting country authority
- e-Sanchit upload confirmation from CBIC
- 1Obtain a valid Phytosanitary Certificate issued by the competent plant-protection authority of the exporting country before shipment. The certificate must cover the specific consignment of fir or spruce logs and must be uploaded in e-Sanchit under document code 851000 prior to filing the bill of entry.CCR mandatory document requirement · document code 851000 · e-Sanchit upload obligation
- 2At the bill of entry stage, confirm that the Phytosanitary Certificate has been uploaded in e-Sanchit before seeking out-of-charge. Where the bill has not been routed through the plant-quarantine PGA for NOC, the proper officer will independently verify the 851000 upload before granting out-of-charge.CCR · e-Sanchit document code 851000
The single most common failure on this tariff line is dispatching the consignment before the Phytosanitary Certificate is in hand and uploaded in e-Sanchit — the certificate must exist and be document-code 851000-uploaded before the bill of entry is filed, not retrospectively remedied at the port. Absent the upload, the proper officer is required to withhold out-of-charge regardless of the commercial urgency, and demurrage accumulates for the full period the consignment is held pending the certificate.