No Auto Input Output Norms for Goods in Restricted List..Fresh Approval required in every case regardless of previous Clearance of same Item

·         Facility Valid for Three Years Only

·         New Appendix 4P Notified, covers

o   Cashews in any Form

o   All Restricted and Prohibited Items

o   Items under FTP Para 4.11 – Ineligible categories of import on Self Declaration Basis

o    Items in Appendix 4J – Export Obligation period for specified inputs with pre-import condition

[DGFT Public Notice No. 25/2015-2020 dated 14 August 2019]

Effect of this Public Notice: Para 4.12(vi) of HBP modified to exclude items f:  ng under Appendix 4P. Appendix 4P notified.

Subject: Modification of Para 4.12(vi) of HBP and addition of Appendix 4P to Hand Book of Procedures 2015-20.

In exercise of powers conferred under Paragraph 1.03 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020, as amended from time to time, the Director General of Foreign Trade makes the following amendments in Hand Book of Procedures 2015-2020:

1.  The current Para 4.12(vi) of HBP 2015-20 (as amended vide Public Notice 64 dt. 27.12.2018) reads as under:-

"Norms ratified by any Norms Committee (NC) in the 0/o DGFT on or after 01.04.2015 in respect of any Advance authorization obtained under paragraph 4.07, shall-be valid for the entire period of the Foreign Trade Policy i.e. up to 31.3.2020 or for a period of three years from the date of ratification, whichever is later. Since all decisions of the Norms Committees are available in the form of minutes on the DGFT website, all other applicants of Advance Authorization are also eligible to apply and get their authorizations based on such ratified norms on repeat basis during validity of these norms."

The amended Para 4.12(vi) of HBP 2015-20 to be read as under:

"Norms ratified by any Norms Committee (NC) in the 0/o DGFT on or after 01.04.2015 in respect of any Advance authorization obtained under paragraph 4.07, shall-be valid for the entire period of the Foreign Trade Policy i.e. up to 31.3.2020 or for a period of three years from the date of ratification, whichever is later. Since all decisions of the Norms Committees are available in the form of minutes on the DGFT website, all other applicants of Advance Authorization are also eligible to apply and get their authorizations based on such ratified norms on repeat basis during validity of these norms. This para is not applicable for authorisations applied for items listed under Appendix 4P."

2.  A new appendix 4P is added in Handbook of Procedures 2015-20.

Appendix 4P

(Items to be excluded from the purview of Public Notice No. 64 dated 27.12.2018)

Sl. No.

Import Item Name

ITC HS at four digits

1.

Cashew in any form

0801

2.

All Restricted/Prohibited Items under the FTP

as applicable

3.

Items covered under Para 4.11 of FTP 2015-20

as applicable

4.

Items covered under pre-import conditions under Appendix 4J

as applicable

(Issued from File No. 01/94/180/34/AM20/PC-4]