MANU/DGFT/0036/2021

Ministry : Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Department/Board : DGFT

Trade Notice No. : 49/2020-2021

Date : 30.03.2021

To,

1. All Advance Authorization Holders concerned
2. Members of Trade and Trade Associations
3. Regional Authorities (RAs) of DGFT
4. Other stakeholders of DGFT

Online filing of requests for closure of advance authorizations

DGFT has revamped its IT systems to provide a paperless, contact-less, electronic interface to the exporters/importers and other stakeholders of DGFT. The new IT System amongst other improvements include process for managing the entire lifecycle of Advance Authorizations including its issuance, amendment and closure.

2. In this regard it is hereby informed that Authorisation Holders are required to make online submissions for fulfilment of Export Obligation to the DGFT Regional Authority(RA) as per Para 4.46 of Hand Book of Procedures 2015-20. The given facility may be utilized for Redemption, Surrender, Duty Paid Regularization, Bond Waiver or the Clubbing of Advance Authorizations. Authorization Holder can utilize the given facility by navigating online to DGFT Website > Services > Advance Authorization/DFIA > Closure of Advance Authorization.

3. The related documents shall be available for the perusal of the concerned applicant exporter under the DGFT Website > My Dashboard > Repositories > Bills Repositories. The EDI Shipping Bills/Bill of Entries are electronically and automatically fetched from the DGFT-Customs Electronic interface. e-BRCs as uploaded by the banks are also automatically available under the Bills Repositories.

4. The other related documents such as Non-EDI Shipping Bills, Non-EDI Bill of Entries, GST invoices, CA/CE/CS Certificates, TR Challans, BG/LUT which are not automatically available required to be uploaded by the applicants to their respective online repositories prior to preparing the online closure application.

5. The facility for on-boarding of certifying authorities such as CA/CE/CS and for them to digitally sign and submit certificates against the Exporter's IEC electronically has also been provided. However, the Authorisation Holder has option to upload the CA/CE/CS Certificate directly to the specific Repository.