(To be published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-1 Section-1)
Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Public Notice No. 58/2015-2020
New Delhi, the 10 February, 2017
Subject: Amendment in Paragraph 3.06 of Handbook of Procedures 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 of Handbook of Procedures 2015-20 by replacing sub para (b) & (c) notified vide PN 30/ dated 26 August, 2015 with two tables showing jurisdictional RA for MEIS & SEIS.
3.06 Jurisdictional RAfFtA 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’s 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, it, 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.
Effect of Public Notice: Jurisdictional RAs for exporters with multiple categories of units have been spell out in the above two tables.
A.K.Bhalla
Director General of Foreign Trade
Email:dgft@nic.in
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