In pursuance of the objective of improving ease of doing business, simplifying the procedures, cutting down delays and to increase the transparency in processing the applications for MEIS claims, the Director General of Foreign Trade, in exercise of the powers conferred under the Paragraph 1.03 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-20 issues the following directives to all the Regional Authorities with immediate effect.

2. Except for the ITC(HS) Codes specified in Annexure to this Public Notice, for all other notified ITC(HS) Codes in Table 2 of Appendix 3B of HBP, Regional Authority (RA) shall process applications for MEIS claim only on the basis of ITC (HS) Code as specified in the Shipping bill. In respect of the ITC (HS) Codes specified in Annexure to this Public notice, Regional Authority (RA) shall continue to process the applications for MEIS claim after matching the description as well in the Shipping Bill with Export Product Description in Table 2 of Appendix 3B. The list of ITC(HS) Codes in the Annexure to this Public Notice is likely to change from time to time.

3. The Directives in this Public Notice shall be followed for all applications which have not been finalized (finalized would mean that either the Scrip has been granted or. applications in which DGFT HQs or the RAs have already rejected a claim) as on date of issue of this Public Notice. Thus, past cases which have been decided will not be re-assessed based on the Directives in this Public Notice.

Effect of Public Notice:- Directives are issued to all Regional Authorities for processing the application for MEIS claim with the objective of improving ease of doing business, simplifying the procedures, increasing transparency and to cutting down delays.
 

(Alok Vardhan Chaturvedi)
Director General of Foreign Trade
E-mail: dgft@nic.in

(Issued from File No. 01/61/180/179/AM18/PC-3)