Only Scrutinized Applications for IEC Please, says Mumbai ZDGFT

[Additional DGFT Mumbai Trade Notice No. 03 dated 18^th December 2013]

Subject: IEC Assistance Cell to assist the exporters in filing IEC applications

In order to facilitate trade and cut down processing time delays that occur due to deficiencies which are there in the IEC applications or their supporting documents, it has been decided to create an IEC Assistance Cell at the IEC counter which shall do the preliminary scrutiny of the IEC applications when the same are submitted at the counter. Whenever an IEC application is received at the IEC Counter, the IEC Assistance Cell shall verify, on the spot, the application and the supporting documents therein. If there is a deficiency in the application/supporting documents, the same shall be intimated to the applicant on the spot, by making a noting in the side margin of the application and the application along with the supporting documents shall be returned to the applicant. Such applications, therefore, would not be recorded as ‘Received’ in the office. Only if the application is found complete in all respects, including the documents submitted, the IEC application will be accepted in this office and acknowledgement regarding the same shall be given to the applicant.

The above business process re-engineering will ensure that there is an ‘on the spot’ scrutiny at the counter of the IEC applications and the supporting documents therein by the IEC Assistance Cell and they are pointed out there itself so that time of the applicant is saved in receiving the deficiencies and then addressing them.

This Trade Notice is issued in interest of trade.