Regarding excise registration no

Santosh Menon (Student) (60 Points)

01 July 2014  

Recently somebody told me that the central excise has introduce the new format of pan based registration for importer
which format is ABNPM1234EI001 for Importer(XD/ED for dealer and XM/EM for Manufacturer) i want to know is this different from Import Export Code(IEC) Number