Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi-110011
Trade Notice No 05/2013
dated 19.07.2013
To
All RAs of DGFT
Members of Trade/EPCs
Subject: Providing Personal Hearing in terms of Para 2.49.2 of Foreign Trade
Policy (FTP) which is incorporated by Notification No 08(RE-2013)/2009-2014
dated 22.04.2013.
The Para 2.49.2 of FTP deals with the grievance redressal mechanism. It was
amended on 22.04.2013 as mentioned in the subject header above. Now as per the
amended provisions, DGFT would grant a Personal Hearing (PH) to such
exporter/importer as stated in the Para 2.49.2 of FTP. For this purpose, the
important conditions required to be fulfilled are: (a) Exporter/Importer is
aggrieved by any decision, except an adjudication order (b) the Exporter
/Importer continues to be aggrieved in-spite of a review of that decision.
- It has now been decided that Personal Hearing (PH) in such cases by the
Director General of Foreign Trade will be held at Udyog Bhawan, New Dehli-11 on
second Tuesday of every month between 3:00PM to 4:00PM. In case, in any month,
2nd Tuesday is not a working day then such PH may be held on next Tuesday.
- Any importer/exporter who satisfies the conditions given in the Para 2.49.2
of Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) may submit a representation addressing to DGFT for
seeking PH before him with the header: Request for PH before DG under Para
2.49.2 of FTP.
- The covering page of such representation must have the following details:
| 1. |
Name of the applicant with Importer and Exporter Code(IEC) number |
| 2. |
E-mail address of the applicant |
| 3. |
Mobile No, office land line no of the applicant |
| 4. |
Name of the person with designation who will appear for PH |
| 5. |
Subject matter on which relaxation /intervention is required |
| 6. |
Reasons for seeking such relaxation/intervention with Justification for
reconsideration of request |
| 7. |
Date, File No & gist of decision against which PH is being sought |
| 8. |
The date when this decision was reviewed by PRC/ competent Authority |
| 9. |
Reason of rejection by PRC/Authority/officer |
| 10. |
Preferable date for PH(2nd Tuesday of every month is earmarked for PH) |
| 11. |
How many pages of documents are being enclosed? (Documents enclosed must be duly indexed & pages are numbered) |
Jay Karan Singh
Joint Director General of Foreign Trade
Ph. 011-23063249
E-mail [email protected]
Issued from File No. 01/60/162/291/AM14/PRC