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15-05-2019
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| Notification No: |
Policy Circular No. 23/2015-20
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| Issuing Authority: |
DGFT
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| Type: |
Circular
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| File No: |
file no.1/94/180/026/AM20/PC-4 |
| Subject: |
Non-requirement of submission of Hard copy of application at RAs for issue of Advance Authorisation (AA) & EPCG Authorisation
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Government of India
Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Department of
Commerce
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi
Policy – 4 Division
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Policy Circular No. 23/2015-20
Dated : 15 May 2019
To
All Regional Authorities of DGFT All Exporters/Members of Trade
Subject: Non-requirement of submission of Hard Copy of application at RAs
for issue of Advance Authorisation (AA) & EPCG Authorisation
Attention is
invited to Para 4.02(ii) of HBP 2015-20 which explicitly states that “Applicant
shall upload documents as prescribed in ANF 4A, if any, at the time of online
filing of application. No physical copy of application is required to be
submitted to Regional Authority.” However it has been observed that almost every
RA asks for the hard copy of the application and Advance Authorisation/EPCG is
processed on receipt of hard copy only. Main reason was that facility to upload
documents in the online ECOM application was not available.
2. To remove
the time lag between online application and receipt of hard copy in the DGFT
Regional Authority (RA), NIC has now created an ‘upload document’ facility in
Advance Authorisation & EPCG ECOM modules:
3. Therefore with effect from
20th May 2019, all exporters filing online AA & EPCG applications will, In
addition, need to upload supporting documents also as prescribed in ANF/FTP/HBP.
With the use of this facility, exporters will not be required to submit hard
copy of the AA/EPCG application and its related documents to the DGFT RA.
4. RAs would examine/process such ECOM applications based on the information
& documents filed online by the exporter and issue AA/EPCG within the laid down
timelines of 3 working days.
5. In cases where the basic prescribed
documents have not been uploaded online by the exporter or in exceptional cases
where additional document/information is needed for Further clarity or decision
making, RA may issue an online deficiency letter. Exporter can log in the Online
ECOM module and view the deficiency raised online. Although the exporter can
submit the reply in writing at the RA counter/post but for a quick response from
the RA, it is desirable that exporter also submits the deficiency reply by email
to the official email id of the concerned RA [with RA File no. in the subject
line] along with necessary scanned documents as attachments.
6. Exporters
may note that, after issue of Advance Authorisation under Para 4.07 of the Hand
Book of Procedures, 2015-20 (Self declared Authorisations where SION does not
exist) it is now the responsibility of the applicants to send two (2) sets of
complete application [along with the PDF copy of AA, Appendix 4E,
production/consumption data and other related documents which will help in
fixation of ad-hoc norms] directly to the FTDO of the concerned Norms Committee
(NC) in the 0/0 DGFT, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi-110011 for ratification/fixation
of the norms. Details of Norms Committee(s) along with products groups dealt by
each Norms Committee are laid down in Para 4.06 (i) of Hand Book of Procedures,
2015-20. In case, the application details are not made available by the exporter
applicant to the concerned NC on time, the process of fixation of ad-hoc norms
will get delayed. Non-availability of application with supporting documents
beyond a reasonable period of say 2 months will lead to rejection of the case by
the Norms Committee.
This issues with the approval of DGFT.
(Issued from file no.1/94/180/026/AM20/PC-4)
(Vijay Kumar)
Additional
Director General, Foreign Trade
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