Foreign Trade Policy missing from Commerce Ministrys achievements in 2014
The Dollar Business Bureau In its year-end review, India’s Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has listed out several points, including the triumph in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), but the export-import community would be disappointed that the list neither contains the New Foreign Trade Policy (now wrongly called the 2014-2019 FTP) nor has any timeline for its announcement. All that the MoC says is that intensive discussions are underway with the Department of Revenue to finalise the new FTP 2014-19. In its efforts to involve states in India’s foreign trade, the MoC has sent a matrix to all State Governments, of which six States have finalised their export strategy and three have already appointed Export Commissioners. Among the MoC’s ...
Modification in Importer Exporter Code (IEC) procedures
Dated November 27, 2014 | Public Notice no. 76(RE-2013)/2009-2014 | Subject: Amendment in ANF 2A of Handbook of Procedure Vol. I (Appendices and Aayat Niryat Forms), 2009-2014. In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy (2009-2014), the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby amends the ANF 2A [ Application Form for Issue / Modification in Importer Exporter Code Number (IEC)] Handbook of Procedure Vol. I (Appendices and Aayat Niryat Forms), 2009-2014 and further notifies that: i) The existing form ANF 2A is being replaced by another format as attached herewith. The existing form exists in physical format as well as in online format. Application for new Importer-Exporter Code (IEC) w.e.f. 01.01.2015 will have to be ...
