How IGST refunds, Shipping Bill errors and pre-LEO reconciliation actually behave on ICEGATE — and the readiness work that prevents blocked refunds.
For: Export manager · Finance · CHA
The same goods routinely carry different HS codes on the commercial invoice, the Shipping Bill and the Certificate of Origin, because each document is produced from a different master. The Shipping…
e-SANCHIT is the only channel for supporting documents on ICEGATE, and it enforces a precise technical specification: PDF/A (ISO 19005-2), at least 200 dpi, 75 KB per A4 page within a 1 MB file,…
A single documentation failure bills an exporter through four independent meters: container charges that escalate by slab at the terminal, bank discrepancy fees per presentation, fixed rectification…
An SB005 error blocks an IGST refund when the Shipping Bill invoice number diverges from the one filed in GSTR-1 Table 6A. The refund stalls silently after EGM; no rejection is issued. The fix is a…
Four documents describe one shipment — Commercial Invoice, Packing List, Bill of Lading and Shipping Bill — and customs, GST and manifest systems check them against each other after export, once…
Rule 46(b) of the CGST Rules limits a tax invoice number to sixteen characters from letters, numerals, hyphen and slash. Accounting-software formats and the Shipping Bill entry routinely diverge — a…
ICES validates every IGST export refund at invoice level against GSTR-1 data and returns one of seven codes, SB000 through SB006. Each error code names a specific mismatch — Shipping Bill details,…
DGFT Notification 60/2025-26 cut all RoDTEP rates and value caps by 50% with effect from 23 February 2026. Notification 66/2025-26 restored the 22 February rates from 23 March 2026 — and its…