Pencil slats
Pencil slats, wood blanks for pencil manufacture
HSN 4421 99 40 (Pencil slats) is subject to a phytosanitary clearance requirement under India's plant-quarantine framework, with a Phytosanitary Certificate mandatory at the bill-of-entry stage before customs out-of-charge is granted. No sectoral PGA licence applies; the operative obligation is the phytosanitary document upload in e-Sanchit.
- Phytosanitary Certificate from exporting country authority
- e-Sanchit upload confirmation from CBIC
- 1Obtain a Phytosanitary Certificate (document code 851000) issued by the competent plant-protection authority of the exporting country for the pencil-slat consignment. This certificate must be uploaded in e-Sanchit before the bill of entry is filed.CCR mandatory document requirement — Phytosanitary Certificate [851000] · e-Sanchit upload prior to out-of-charge (OOC)
- 2At the bill-of-entry stage, the proper officer verifies that document code 851000 has been uploaded in e-Sanchit before granting out-of-charge. Consignments on PGA-facilitated bills not routed through the PGA for NOC are subject to the same verification; failure to upload prior to OOC results in consignment detention.CCR PGA-facilitated bill verification requirement · e-Sanchit document code 851000
The most common error on this tariff line is dispatching the consignment before the exporting country's plant-protection authority has issued and endorsed the Phytosanitary Certificate, leaving the importer unable to upload document code 851000 in e-Sanchit in time for the bill of entry. A missing or defective Phytosanitary Certificate at the port stage results in detention and accrual of demurrage and ground rent pending rectification — and the certificate cannot be substituted post-shipment by a copy or a retro-dated document.