Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Udyog Bhawan
Notification No 15 (RE – 2013)/2009-2014
New Delhi, Dated : 5 June, 2013
Subject: Export policy of sugar.
S.O.(E) In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade
(Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No.22 of 1992) read with Para 2.1 of the
Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014, the Central Government, with immediate effect,
hereby makes the following amendments in Chapter 17 of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS)
Classification of Export and Import Items.
2. The existing entries in Chapter 17 of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification
of Export and Import Items are substituted as follows:
Chapter 17
Sugars and Sugar Confectionery
| S.No. |
Tariff Item HS Code |
Unit |
Item Description |
Export Policy |
Nature of Restriction |
| 93 |
1701 00 00 |
Kg |
(a) Sugar * |
Free |
Prior registration of quantity with DGFT. |
| Kg |
(b) Preferential Quota Sugar to EU and USA |
STE |
Export permitted through M/s.Indian Sugar Exim Corporation Limited
subject to quantitative ceiling notified by DGFT from time to time. |
* Export of Pharmaceutical Grade Sugar [(i) Sucrose IP/BP/EP/USP/JP and (ii)
Sucrose AR & LR] and Specialty Sugar [(i) Sugar cubes (ii) Sugar sachets (white
& brown) (iii) Castor sugar (iv) Demerara sugar (v) Light brown sugar (vi) Icing
sugar (vii) Fondant icing sugar (viii) Kathali sugar (ix) Candy sugar (x)
Rainbow sugar (xi) Pearl sugar and (xii) Trimoline (invert sugar)] would not be
subject to registration requirement.
Export Licensing Note of Chapter 17
Note 1
Deleted.
Note 2
Export of 10,000 MTs of organic sugar, per annum will be permitted subject to
following conditions:
- The sugar should be duly certified by APEDA as being organic sugar;
- Export contracts should be registered with APEDA, New Delhi prior to shipment;
- Exports shall be allowed only from Customs EDI Ports.
3. Effect of this notification:
Export of sugar under Advance Authorization would not require Release Order
from Directorate of Sugar. There is no change in other conditions relating to
export of sugar.
(Anup K. Pujari)
Director General of Foreign Trade
E-mail: dgft[at]nic[dot]in
(Issued from F.No.01/91/180/879/AM08/Export Cell)(Part)