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12-02-2016
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Notification No: |
Trade Notice No. 18/2016
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Issuing Authority: |
DGFT
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Type: |
Trade Notice
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File No: |
No. 01/93/180/20/AM-13/PC-2(B) |
Subject: |
Instruction on applications for IEC / modification in IEC - reg.
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Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi
New Delhi, Dated the 12th February, 2016
Trade Notice No. 18/2016
To :
- All IEC holders/applicants
- All EPCs / All Chambers of Trade and Industries
- FIEO/ASSOCHAM/CII
- All RA’s of DGFT
Subject: Instruction on applications for IEC / modification in IEC
–regd.
Reference is invited to the
Notification No. 34 dated 29th January, 2016 vide
which para 2.05 (c) of the FTP (2015-20) has been amended. As per the amended
para only two documents, namely (i) copy of the PAN Card of the business entity,
and (ii) cancelled cheque bearing entity’s pre-printed name or Bank certificate
in prescribed format ANF-2A (i), are required to be uploaded, besides the
digital photograph, along with the application for IEC. Subsequently, vide
Public Notice No. 58 dated 01.02.2016 revised format for online IEC (ANF-2A),
format of Bank Certificate [ANF-2A (i)] and the Check List for processing of the
IEC application were notified.
- As IEC applications in manual mode will only be accepted till 31.3.2016,
henceforth applicants
seeking IEC through manual mode are required to submit their application in the
format notified vide
Public Notice no 58 dated 1.2.2016 along with signatory applicant’s photograph
and only the two
documents, as indicated above. RA’s should also ensure that henceforth
applications in manual mode
are accepted only in the revised format with the documents listed above. RA’s
must also ensure that
IEC’s are issued only as per the check list notified vide PN
No.58 dated
1.2.2016. However, pending
manual applications will not be rejected for being filed under the old norms. If
fit for acceptance as per
the norms prevailing when filed, these applications will be processed and
accepted expeditiously. If they
are found to be deficient under these old norms, RAs will consider and process
them under the above
new simplified arrangement and pass them if they meet the new requirements. If
these pending
applications are not eligible even under the new simplified norms, RAs will give
applicants an
opportunity to provide additional documents / information as per the new
simplified arrangement and
process the applications expeditiously on satisfactory compliance.
- As regards modification in IEC, applicant is required to upload documents
corresponding to the
modification required in their IEC. For e.g change in address may be
corroborated by any document
like a sale deed in case business premise is self-owned; or Rental/Lease
Agreement, in case office is
rented/ leased; or latest electricity /telephone bill, bearing the applicant
entity’s name and new address.
(S. P. Roy)
Joint Director General of Foreign Trade
Telefax:23062240
E-mail: [email protected]
No.01/93/180/20/AM-13/PC-2(B)
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