4.02

General Provision

(i) Application for grant of Advance Authorisation /Special Advance Authorization for export of Articles of Apparel and Clothing Accessories / Advance Authorisation for Annual Requirement / Duty Free Import Authorisation (DFIA) shall be filed online (digitally signed) by IEC holder to the concerned jurisdictional Regional Authority as per Appendix IA, Applicant could be either registered office or head office or a branch office or a manufacturing unit of the IEC holder.

(Above Para 4.02(i) has been amended vide PUBLIC NOTICE NO.27/2016, DT. 31/08/2016)

[OLD- (i) Application for grant of Advance Authorisation / Advance Authorisation for Annual Requirement / Duty Free Import Authorisation (DFIA) shall be filed online (digitally signed) by IEC holder to the concerned jurisdictional Regional Authority as per Appendix 1A. Applicant could be either Registered office or Head office or a branch office or a manufacturing unit of the IEC holder.]

(ii) Applicant shall upload documents as prescribed in ANF 4A, if any, at the time of online filing of application. No physical copy of application is required to be submitted to Regional Authority.

(iii) In case an applicant is not able to upload any document as given in Appendix 4E electronically for fixation of adhoc norms / standardization of norms, then only such documents may be submitted in physical form to the concerned Norms Committee in DGFT headquarters.