Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Udyog Bhavan New Delhi-110011
Policy Circular No. 46 (RE 2010) 2009-14
Dated 8th November, 2011.
Subject:- Authorizations issued by DGFT not transmitted by message exchange
to Customs to be registered / operated on production of physical copy of
authorization only.
DGFT receives requests from exporters / importers about non appearance of
details of authorizations issued by DGFT on Custom’s server leading to delays in
registration / export and import clearances.
- Message exchange between DGFT and Customs is operational only in respect of
Advance Authorization (on and after 01.04.2009), Export Promotion Capital Goods
(on and after 01.04.2009), Duty Free Import Authorization (on and after
13.10.2011) and DEPB (which is on EDI mode for almost 6 years). Only these
authorizations are therefore available for ‘on-line’ verification.
- Other authorizations i.e. Annual Advance Authorization, Annual EPCG, SHIS,
restricted / SCOMET import / export authorization, Chapter 3 Reward Scheme are
yet to be covered under message exchange with customs. Therefore, these
authorizations need to be registered / operated by custom on production of
physical copy of authorization only with no ‘on-line’ verification.
- The above procedure is being reiterated for information to all stake holders.
(Rajiv Arora)
Joint Director General of Foreign Trade
Tel:23061573
E-mail: [email protected]
(F.No.01/02/98/AM-10/ EDI)