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NOTIFICATION NO. 20/2023, DT. 20/07/2023

Amendment in Export Policy of Non-basmati rice under HS Code 1006 30 90.

 

S.O.(E). The Central Government, in exercise of powers conferred by Section 3 read with section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No. 22 of 1992), as amended, read with Para 1.02 and 2.01 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2023, hereby amends the Export Policy of Non-basmati rice against ITC (HS) code 1006 30 90 of Chapter 10 of Schedule 2 of the ITC (HS) Export Policy, as under:
 

ITC HS Codes Description Export Policy Revised Export Policy
1006 30 90 Non-basmati white rice (Semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed: Other) Free Prohibited


2. The Notification will come into immediate effect. The provisions as under Para 1.05 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2023 regarding transitional arrangement shall not be applicable under this Notification for export of Non-basmati rice. Consignments of Non-basmati rice will be allowed to be exported under following conditions:

i. where loading of Non-basmati rice on the ship has commenced before this Notification;

ii. where the shipping bill is filed and vessels have already berthed or arrived and anchored in Indian ports and their rotation number has been allocated before this Notification; The approval of loading in such vessels will be issued only after confirmation by the concerned Port Authorities regarding anchoring/berthing of the ship for loading of Non-basmati rice prior to the Notification;

iii. where Non-basmati rice consignment has been handed over to the Customs before this Notification and is registered in their system / where Non-basmati rice consignment has entered the Customs Station for exportation before this Notification and is registered in the electronic systems of the concerned Custodian of the Customs Station with verifiable evidence of date and time stamping of these commodities having entered the Customs Station prior to 20.07.2023. The period of export shall be upto 31.08.2023.

iv. Export will be allowed on the basis of permission granted by the Government of India to other countries to meet their food security needs and based on the request of their Government.

3. Export of Organic Non-basmati rice will be governed in accordance with Notification 03/2015-2020 dated 19th April, 2017 read with Notification No.45/2015-2020 dated 29th November, 2022.

4. Effect of this Notification :

Export Policy of Non-basmati white rice (Semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed: Other) under HS code 1006 30 90 is amended from ‘Free’ to ‘Prohibited’.
 

(Santosh Kumar Sarangi)
Director General of Foreign Trade
Ex-Officio Additional Secretary, Government of India
E-mail: dgft@nic.in

(Issued from F.No 01/91/171/010/AM23EC/e- 33294)
 

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