The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has issued Circular No. 05/2026–Customs to expand SWIFT 2.0 as a single-touch digital platform for EXIM clearances by onboarding additional Partner Government Agencies (PGAs). Building on the pilot integration of AQCS, PQMS, and FSSAI, the Board has now extended SWIFT 2.0 to CDSCO and WCCB, with standardised data fields, declarations, and document requirements finalised through inter-ministerial consultations. Further, MeitY and the Textile Committee have been fully integrated, enabling digital generation, submission, and validation of licences, NOCs, test reports, and exemption certificates directly through the SWIFT dashboard, eliminating physical document submission. New and updated document codes have been notified to harmonise filing of LPCOs/NOCs across PGAs. The initiative aims to reduce dwell time, improve transparency, and streamline customs clearance. Five PGAs will be fully integrated by 31 March 2026, with phased onboarding of all PGAs targeted by 31 March 2027.
F. No.450/12/2026-CUS IV
Government of India
Ministry of Finance,
Department of Revenue
(Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs)
Circular No. 05/2026 – Customs | Dated: 1st February 2026
To
The Principal Chief Commissioners/Chief Commissioner of Customs/Customs (Preventive)/Customs & Central Tax,
The Principal Commissioners/Commissioners of Customs/Customs (Preventive)/Customs & Central Tax,
The Principal Director Generals/Director Generals under CBIC
Subject: Onboarding of CDSCO, WCCB, Textile Committee and MeitY on SWIFT 2.0 as Single Touch Point for Trade — reg.
Kind reference is invited to Board Circular No. 29/2025-Customs dated 21.11.2025 regarding the launch of SWIFT 2.0, wherein it was envisaged to onboard more than 60 Partner Government Agencies (PGAs) in a phased manner. As part of the first phase of rollout, three PGAs, namely AQCS, PQMS and FSSAI, were onboarded on SWIFT 2.0 on pilot basis, and accordingly, consolidated lists of data fields/values and document requirements for AQCS, PQMS and FSSAI were finalised with the objective of providing a single touch point for EXIM clearances. At present, in order to have stakeholders’ feedback, AQCS unified application under SWIFT 2.0 is live for NOC processing at all ports; the PQMS unified application is live for NOC processing at Delhi and the FSSAI unified application is live for FSSAI ports including at Delhi and Kolkata Region.
2. In the process of further deepening the scope of SWIFT 2.0, it has now been decided to extend the same to two more PGAs, namely CDSCO and WCCB. Accordingly, the consolidated lists of data fields/values and document requirements for these PGAs have been formulated after inter-ministerial consultations involving Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The detailed list of data fields, document codes and declarations for WCCB and CDSCO are annexed as Annexure-A and Annexure-B respectively, for reference.
3. In addition to this, at present, multiple Partner Government Agencies (PGAs) issue Licences, Permits, Certificates and Other Documents (LPC0s)/No Objection Certificates (NOCs) separately. In order to harmonise and streamline the filing and processing of such documents, a specific document code has been assigned to each document issued by PGAs. These documents, mapped to the appropriate document codes, shall be consumed under SWIFT 2.0. Accordingly, a set of new additional document codes of LPCOs/NOCs issued by various PGAs has been created and annexed as Annexure-C. Further, document codes used by trade for uploading documents have been created and attached as Annexure-D and two document codes issued vide Circular No. 03/2020-Customs dated 15.01.2020 are updated as annexed in Annexure-E.
4. Further, it is informed that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Textile Committee have been integrated into the SWIFT 2.0. The competent officers of MeitY and Textile Committee process the application in the Single Window environment. The Concessional Rate of Customs Duty Certificates (CCDC) and Compulsory Registration Order (CRO) exemption certificates issued by the MeitY shall be generated and accessed through the SWIFT 2.0 dashboard. These certificates shall be digitally integrated with the Bill of Entry for validation and record-keeping, thereby obviating the requirement for physical production of such certificates before Customs authorities. For the Textile Committee, importers may view Textile Committee test reports on the SWIFT dashboard, which shall also be made available to the proper Customs officer for cargo clearance, and may make payment of the prescribed fees through the single-touch-point interface.
5. Earlier, AQCS, CDSCO and WCCB were working on separate systems, now in the present system, with an aim to provide single touch point for EXIM stakeholders and to reduce the dwell time, the PGA officers of AQCS, CDSCO and WCCB have been collocated onto the IT infrastructure systems of Indian Customs under SWIFT 2.0 for rocessing the NOCs. This would obviate the need for producing the documents separately before these authorities.
6. DG Systems is advised to issue a detailed advisory in respect of all PGAs integrated under SWIFT 2.0. The above functionalities shall initially be made operational for obtaining feedback from the stakeholders prior to mandatory rollout.
7. Accordingly, five PGAs, namely FSSAI, AQCS, PQMS, WCCB and CDSCO, involved in live Customs clearance shall be progressively onboarded for complete integration under SWIFT 2.0 on or before 31.03.2026 suitably capturing the feedback of all stakeholders for this purpose. All PGAs will be onboarded in a phased manner by 31.03.2027.
8. Field formations are requested to issue suitable Public Notices/Trade Notices to sensitise stakeholders and ensure correct and complete filing of data and documents under SWIFT 2.0.
9. Any difficulties in implementation may be brought to the notice of the Board at the earliest.
Hindi version follows.
Enclosure: As above
Yours faithfully,
(Suresh umar Meena)
Deputy Commissioner/
OSD Customs Policy Wing
