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Date: 02-09-1998
Notification No: DGFT Notification No 18/1998
Issuing Authority: DGFT  
Type: Notification
File No:
Subject: EOUs/ EPZ/ EHTP - Minimum export performance prescribed
EOUs/ EPZ/ EHTP - Minimum export performance prescribed

Notification No. 18 dated 2nd September 1998

In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (No. 22 of 1992) read with paragraph 1.3 of the Export and Import Policy, 1997-2002(incorporating amendments made upto 13-4-98), the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments in the Export and Import Policy, 1997-2002 (incorporating amendments made upto 13-4-98)

1.     The following amendment shall be made in Appendix -I

APPENDIX - 1

Minimum NFEP Requirement and Report performance required under the EOU/ EPZ/ EHTP Scheme (Paragraph 9.5 of the Policy)

Name of the Sector

Minimum NFEP

Minimum Export performance for five years

I. Electronics

a. Computer Software

b. Hardware

 

30%

No minimum stipulation

1.5 times the CIF value of imported capital goods plus 1.5 times the annual wage bill

US$ 3.5 million or 5 times the CIF value of imported capital goods whichever is higher.

II.      Gems And Jewellery

a. Studded gold / platinum / articles thereof

b. Plain gold/ platinum silver jewellery and articles thereof

c. Gold/ platinum / silver unstudded chains manufactured by fully mechanised process

 

15%

 

10%

 

3%

 

-do-

 

-do-

 

-do-

III. Textile And Garments

a. Readymade garments

b. Made Ups

c. Cotton Yarn and Cotton Polyester Yarn (Open and Spinning)

d. Cotton Yarn and Cotton Polyester Yarn (Ring Spindles Spun)

e. Piece Goods

f. Denim Fabrics

g. Terry Towels

h. Silk Fabrics

i. Silk and high fashion garments

30%

US$ 3.5 million or 5 times the CIF value of imported capital goods whichever is higher.

IV. Leather Products

a. Leather Footwear

b. Leather Shoe Uppers

c. Leather Garments / goods

d. Sports Shoes / Sports Footwear

30%

-do-

V. Granites

30%

-do-

VI. Bio Technology

Positive NFEP

US$ 0.50 million

VII. Others

a. Latex Gloves

b. Clocks/ Time pieces / Wrist Watches

c. Cigarettes

d. Cigarettes Lighters

e. Bristles, including brushes

f. Tissue culture plants

30%

US$ 3.5 million or 5 times the CIF value of imported capital goods whichever is higher.

VIII. Products not covered

20%

US$ 3.5 million or 5 times above the CIF value of imported capital goods whichever is higher.

2.     Paragraph 9.9(c) should be amended to read as follows:

"However, an EOU/ EPZ unit in agriculture, aquaculture, animal husbandry, bio-technology, floriculture, horticulture, pisciculture, poultry, viticulture and sericulture may, in accordance with the DTA sale guidelines notified in this behalf, self upto 50% of the production in value terms in the DTA subject to positive net foreign exchange earning".

This issues in public interest.

       

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