Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi
Trade Notice No. 3/2013
Dated 28th May, 2013
To
All RAs of DGFT
Members of Trade
Subject: Online application and issue of Registration Certificates for
export of various commodities with effect from 1st July, 2013.
DGFT is happy to announce migration of the process of obtaining Registration
Certificate (for export purpose only) from the existing manual mode to digital
mode. With effect from 1st July, 2013 such registrations would be online and
would be mandatory. This will be applicable for obtaining registration
certificates (RCs) for commodities like cotton, cotton yarn, non-basmati rice,
wheat and sugar; all of which needs RCs as per existing Foreign Trade Policy.
The procedure to obtain the RCs online would be available on our website:
www.dgft.gov.in. The application has to be made online indicating all the
details. Once the Message Exchange System (MES) with CBEC relating to this issue
is introduced, the RCs would also be transmitted online. As of now only the
process of submitting the applications is made online; grant of RCs would
continue to be in hard form. However, electronic copy would be made available on
request.
At the time of receiving the hard copy of RC, applicant has to bring a print out
of the application submitted online along with copies of Letter of Credit [L/C]
or Foreign Inward Remittance Certificate [FIRC], as applicable and Export
Contract. [Subsequently when the MES is established, this requirement will not
be there]
For the period up to mid-night of Sunday the 30th June, 2013 applications for
grant of RCs for export of various commodities may be submitted in either form
that is in manual mode or in electronic mode, as has been described above. From
Monday the 1st July, 2013 it would be mandatory to submit applications only
online.
(Daya Shankar)
Deputy Director General of Foreign Trade
Email: [email protected]
(Issued from File No. 01/91/180/1194/AM10/EC)