INHBL6: Embassy Property Development SEZ Benguluru
INHBL6 is the Indian customs location code for Embassy Property Development SEZ Benguluru. The last character makes it an inland customs point: an inland container depot, a container freight station or a zone unit, where a consignment is cleared inland rather than at the port that ships it.
What ICEGATE records against INHBL6
The list records this location as EMBASSY PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT SEZ BENGULURU 560001, in its own words. That is the string the portal will show you, so it is the one to recognise on a document, even where the place is usually written another way.
The record names no state for this location, so this page names none either. The three characters before the last one, HBL, are the location itself, and any other code beginning INHBL is the same place at a different kind of facility.
How to read the code INHBL6
An Indian customs location code has three parts: IN for India, then HBL for the location, then 6 for the facility. So INHBL6 is an inland customs point: an inland container depot, a container freight station or a zone unit, where a consignment is cleared inland rather than at the port that ships it.
The six values the last character takes are 1 a sea port, 2 a rail customs station, 4 an air cargo complex, 5 a foreign post office, 6 an inland customs point and B a land customs station. That is why one city can carry several codes: its sea terminal and its air cargo complex are different customs stations, not two names for one.
What INHBL6 means for a RoDTEP scrip
A customs location code is not filing trivia. It names the station where the shipping bill is filed, and that station is where the RoDTEP scroll is generated against it. The claim itself has to be on the bill at the time of export: paragraph I(d) of ICEGATE Advisory No. 01/2021 states that if RODTEPY is not specifically claimed in the shipping bill, no RoDTEP would accrue to the exporter. The declaration and the codes that go with it are the whole of that step.
After that the sequence is out of the exporter's hands and it runs at the station INHBL6 names: the goods are exported, the Export General Manifest is filed, Customs processes the bill, and the scroll is generated. Only then is there an e-scrip in the Electronic Duty Credit Ledger to sell or to spend. The port is also where the scroll can be stopped: paragraph 4.94(2) of the Handbook of Procedures 2023 provides that where the Annual RoDTEP Return has not been filed, no further scroll-out of the claims on the shipping bills is permitted "at the Customs Port of Export after the grace period of three (3) months i.e. after 30th June". If several bills have gone quiet at once rather than one, what blocks a scroll works through the causes in the order worth checking them.
Where these codes come from
Every row in this directory is ICEGATE's. The codes and the names are the customs location list that ICEGATE publishes, which is the Indian Customs Electronic Gateway itself rather than anybody's copy of it.
Nothing is inherited from a secondary list, and the reason is what happened when one was checked against ICEGATE row by row. Seven of its 362 codes appear in neither list ICEGATE publishes. It writes the Lucknow air cargo code as INLOK4, where both of ICEGATE's own documents say INLKO4. And it is missing 232 codes ICEGATE does carry, 180 of which name themselves a special economic zone or a free trade warehousing zone, and nine of which are the foreign post offices, a whole facility type that list did not carry.
The other direction is stated too. A code that appears in an older ICEGATE document but not in the list ICEGATE serves today is not carried here, because the current list is what a filing is checked against. One code in this position is a rail crossing at Radhikapur, INRDP2, which is in the 2022 document below and not in the list today.
The facility each code denotes is then checked against CBIC's own Category column, in the ICEGATE 2.0 live locations document. It covers 234 of the 586 codes and agrees with the last character on every one of them. A single disagreement fails the build of this directory rather than reaching a page.
What no source states is the format itself. Circular 28/2001-Customs dated 10 May 2001 is the instrument that introduced these codes, and CBIC's own copy of it does not render on the site today, so it is named here and not quoted. The meaning of the last character is therefore stated on these pages as what CBIC's Category column shows it to be across the 234 rows that carry one, rather than as a rule read out of a document. Anyone stating it as a rule is making the same inference from the same evidence; this page says so rather than borrowing the confidence.
What is not here is as deliberate as what is. ICEGATE's record carries no coordinates, no cargo figures and no ranking, so neither does this directory, and it names a state for only 309 of the 586. Where the record is silent, these pages are silent, and the list is checked against what ICEGATE currently publishes rather than against anyone’s copy of it.
The codes are the easy part. What the shipping bill filed at one of them is worth is the RoDTEP scheme, and what the credit becomes is a duty-credit scrip.