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Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Public Notice No. 58/2015-20
New Delhi, the 10th February, 2017
Subject: Amendment in Paragraph 3.06 of Handbook of Procedures 2015-20
In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 2.04 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-2020, the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) hereby makes the following amendments in Paragraph 3.06 of Handbook of Procedures 2015-20 by replacing sub para (b) & (c) notified vide
PN 30/ dated 26 August, 2015 with two tables showing jurisdictional RA for MEIS & SEIS.
3.06 Jurisdictional RAfFtA Concerned:
(a) Applicant shall have option to choose Jurisdictional RA on the basis of Corporate Office/ Registered Office/Head Office/ Branch Office address endorsed on IEC for submitting application’s under MEIS and SEIS. This option need to be exercised at the beginning of financial year. Once an option is exercised, no change would be allowed for claims relating to that year. To illustrate, it, an exporter has chosen RA Chennai for claiming rewards for exports made in 2015-16,then all claims for exports made in 2015-16, irrespective of the date of application shall be made to RA Chennai only.
(b)Jurisdictional for MEIS
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Units |
Jurisdictional RA |
| (i) |
Importer Exporter Code(IEC) holders having units in DTAs/ EHTPs/
BTPs/ STPs or more than one of these |
Jurisdictional RA of DGFT as in Appendix 1A |
| (ii) |
IEC holders having units both in SEZs/EOUs or both |
Respective Development Commissioner of Special Economic Zones (SEZs)
as in Appendix 1A |
| (iii) |
IEC holders having units both in (i) & (ii) above |
Units located in category (i) & (ii) will apply to respective
Jurisdictions at Col-3 |
(c)Jurisdictional for SEIS(Single application on annual basis)
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Units |
Jurisdictional RA |
| (i) |
IEC holders having units only in DTAs |
Jurisdictional RA of DGFT as in Appendix 1A |
| (ii) |
IEC holders having units only in SEZs |
Respective Development Commissioner of Special Economic Zones (SEZs)
as in Appendix 1A |
| (iii) |
IEC holders having units only in multiple SEZs |
Single application for all units to the Development Commissioner of
the SEZ where it has achieved highest Forex Earnings. |
| (iv) |
IEC holders having units both in DTA and SEZs |
Single application for all different units to the Jurisdictional RA
of DGFT as given in Appendix 1A |
Effect of Public Notice: Jurisdictional RAs for exporters with multiple categories of units have been spell out in the above two tables.
A.K.Bhalla
Director General of Foreign Trade
Email:[email protected]
[File No. 01/061/180/33/AM16/PC3]
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