Ministry of Commerce and Industry

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The Department of Commerce in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is headed by the Secretary. This Department is responsible for the country’s external trade and all matters connected with it, such as commercial relations with other countries, state trading, export promotional measures and the development and regulation of certain export oriented industries and commodities. The Department of Commerce formulates policies in the sphere of foreign trade, in particular, the import and export policy of the country.
 Subject which are under the administrative control of the Department of Commerce

General International Trade Policy
Foreign Trade
State Trading
Trading with Enemy: enemy Property
Others

1. International Customs Tariff Bureau including residue work relating to Tariff Commission.
2. Development and expansion of export production in relation to all commodities, products,
    manufacture and semi-manufacture including the following:-
    a. Agricultural produce within the meaning of agricultural produce {Grading and Marketing Act.,
    1937 (1 of 1937)}
    b. Marine products
    c. Industrial products (engineering goods, chemicals, plastics, leather products etc.)
    d. Fuels, minerals and mineral products
    e. Specific export-oriented products (including plantation crops etc, but excluding jute products
        and handicrafts which are directly under the charge of this Department)
    f. Consultancy, civil construction and turnkey projects

3. All organisations and institutions connected with the provision of services relating to the export
    effort including:
    a. Export Credit Guarantee Corporation
    b. Export Inspection Council
    c. Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics
    d. India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO)
    e. Free Trade Zones
    f. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

4. Projects and programmes for stimulating and assisting the export efforts.
5. Production, distribution (for domestic consumption and exports) and development of plantation
   such as tea, coffee, rubber and cardamom.
6. Processing and distribution for domestic consumption and exports of Instant tea and Instant
   Coffee.
7.
i. Tea Trading Corporation of India.
ii. Tea Board
iii. Coffee Board
iv. Rubber Board
v. Spices Board
vi. Tobacco Board

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