4.12

Entitlement

Maximum CIF value of one or more authorisations to be issued under paragraph 4.07 of Hand Book of Procedures shall be as under:

(i) For Status Holders – upto 300% of FOB and / or FOR value of preceding year’s exports and /or supplies.

(ii) Other than Status Holders – upto 300% of FOB or Rs. 10 crore and / or FOR value of preceding year’s exports and/or supplies, whichever is higher.

(iii) Once adhoc norms are fixed by Norms Committee, value limits mentioned in sub paragraph (i) and (ii) above, would not be applicable to Advance Authorisations issued under paragraph 4.07 of Hand Book of Procedures. Value of such authorisations, subsequent to fixation of norms by Norms Committee, may be enhanced, if the Advance Authorisation was issued restricting the CIF value to maximum of value in sub-paragraph (i) & (ii) above.

(iv) In such cases Authorisations shall be issued by Regional Authority concerned under "Adhoc Norms Fixed" category and application copies need not be forwarded to NC for fixation / ratification of norms. Where the application has already been forwarded before the ratification of Norms, the Regional Authority shall finalise the case as per the norms subsequently ratified by NC in a similar case of the party.

(v) Authorisation holder in such cases shall be entitled for further authorisation (s) as per norms ratified by Norms Committee without need for subsequent ratification by Norms Committee. In such cases the applicant would file application under “Adhoc Norms Fixed” category to the Regional Authority concerned.

(vi) 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 31.03.2022.[OLD-  [OLD-  31.03.2021 [OLD - 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.

(The DATE “31.03.2022” has been substituted vide PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 25/2021, DT. 28/09/2021)

(The phrase "31.03.2021" has been substituted vide PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 67/2019, DT. 31/03/2020)

(Above sub-para (vi) has been amended vide PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 25/2019, DT. 14/08/2019)

[OLD- (vi) Norms ratified by any Norms Committee (NC) in the O/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 31.03.2020 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.]

(Above (vi) has been revised vide PUBLIC NOTICE NO.64/2018, DT. 27/12/2018)

[OLD- (vi) Where Norms Committee has already ratified norms for same export and import products in respect of an authorization obtained under paragraph 4.07, such norms shall be valid for a period of two years reckoned from the date of ratification . The same applicant can avail repeat authorisations based on such adhoc norms. Regional Authority based on such adhoc norms. Another exporter, however, cannot be granted authorization by Regional Authority based on such adhoc norms.]

(vii) Wherever an applicant has applied for components on “net-tonet basis with accountability clause” and such cases fall under paragraph 6 of General Note for all Export Products, the same need not be referred to Norms Committee for fixation of norms. However, exporters shall indicate clearly details of such components imported on “net-to-net basis with accountability clause” in the export/supply documents namely Shipping Bills, Bill of Exports, Tax invoice for export/supplies prescribed under the GST rules evidencing that these imported inputs have been exported.