MANU/DGFT/0090/2015

Ministry : Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Department/Board : DGFT

Public Notice No. : 30/2015-2020

Date : 26.08.2015

Amendment in paragraph 3.06 and 3.08 of Handbook of Procedures of Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2015-20.

In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 2.04 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-2020, the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) hereby makes the following amendments in paragraph 3.06 and 3.08 of Handbook of Procedures 2015-2020:

1. Amendment in paragraph 3.06:

New sub-paragraphs (b) & (c) are being inserted and the amended paragraph 3.06 shall read as under:

3.06 Jurisdictional RA / RA Concerned

(a) Applicant shall have option to choose Jurisdictional RA on the basis of Corporate Office/ Registered Office/Head Office / Branch Office address endorsed on IEC for submitting application/applications under MEIS and SEIS. This option need to be exercised at the beginning of financial year. Once an option is exercised, no change would be allowed for claims relating to that year. To illustrate, if an exporter has chosen RA Chennai for claiming rewards for exports made in 2015-16, then all claims for exports made in 2015-16, irrespective of the date of application shall be made to RA Chennai only.

(b) Importer Exporter Code(IEC) holders having units in SEZs /EOUs shall apply to the concerned Development Commissioner of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) given in appendix 1A for availing benefit under Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) and Service Exports from India Scheme (SEIS) provided in FTP 2015-2020.

(c) In case of IEC holders that have units in SEZ/EOUs as well as in DTA, such IEC holders, for availing benefits under MEIS and SEIS provided in FTP 2015-2020, shall file their applications as under :-

(i) DTA units shall apply to concerned Regional Authority(RA), DGFT as given in Appendix 1A;

(ii) SEZ/EOU units shall apply to concerned Development Commissioner (DC), SEZ as given in Appendix 1A.

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