Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Udyog Bhavan New Delhi.
EDI Section
Policy Circular No.11 RE (2010) /2009-14/
Date 04.01.2011
Sub:-“On-line” submission of application –
Clarification regarding use of manual mode for filing application on DGFT’s
server.
Recently representations have been received from various Exporters/Export
Promotion bodies that at certain EDI Ports, there have been problems regarding
filing of “on-line” shipping bill due to disruption / malfunctioning of EDI
operations and the customs authorities are issuing manual Shipping Bills even
from such EDI ports. The matter has been examined. Accordingly, in continuation
of the earlier
Policy Circular No.44 dated 10.1.2006, wherein this issue was
addressed, the matter is further clarified as under:-
- In such cases, the exporters shall use the manual Shipping Bill filing
option on the DGFT’s server to file their application for Export Promotion
Schemes (Chapter 3,4 and 5 for the FTP). Moreover, necessary documents in
original including Shipping Bills will need to be submitted to jurisdictional
Regional Authority of DGFT by the exporter. However, EDI Shipping Bills which
are not transmitted properly will need to be EDI cleared and transmitted to
DGFT’s Server for grant of benefits. EDI Shipping Bill will not be accepted
through manual option mode.
- Regional Authority will ensure that the original Shipping Bills submitted are
not the EDI Shipping Bills and are the manually assessed Shipping Bills, duly
signed by the competent authority. Customs at their end will ensure that they do
not transmit the manually cleared Shipping Bills electronically to avoid duplicacy and consequential erroneous grant of double benefits.
This issues with the approval of competent authority.
Sd/-
(Rajiv Arora)
Jt.DGFT
Issued from file No.01/02/148/AM-11/EDI