Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has issued Policy Circular No. 19/2015-20 dated 14th February, 2019 to inform about the discontinuation of issue of physical copy of Advance/EPCG Authorisations by Regional Authorities(RA), in respect of EDI ports, on or after 1st day of March, 2019.
Key Points of the Circular are:
- The applicants shall continue to apply for Advance/EPCG Authorisations as per current practice on DGFT website. Regional Authorities shall no longer issue any hard copy of authorisation to the applicants. Instead, in case of approval by the RA, the applicant will receive message confirming the Authorisation number on the Mobile and email address.
- The applicants shall now need to log on to DGFT website and take the print out of the Authorisation. After login, in the first window, details of all applications submitted during the last one year will appear. For getting the status in respect of any particular file, applicant needs to double click on that file. In case authorisation has been issued by the RA, the applicant can print/save the Authorisation. On the basis of PDF copy of Authorisation, the exporter can approach the Customs Authority concerned at registered EDI port for execution of BG/LUT, as the case may be.
- Only the latest amended version of the Authorisation has been made available in the system in pdf format for print. Exporters are advised to print/save the Authorisation so issued/amended by the DGFT RA, on an immediate basis, at every stage [whether fresh issue or amendment] for their record/future use.
- The applicants intending to procure goods from domestic sources shall make request for issue of Invalidation/ARO to the RA concerned. In such cases, as per the current practice, RA shall amend Authorisation making quantity and value invalid for direct import and issue the Invalidation Letter /ARO [endorsing one copy to supplier of goods and another copy to RA of the supplier].
- No TRA facility under such Advance/EPCG Authorisations issued from 01.03.2019 onwards will be available from EDI ports to non-EDI ports.
- In cases where the applicant chooses a non EDI port as Port of Registration while filing application for Advance/EPCG Authorisation, existing system of printing of Authorisation on security paper shall continue.
For further details please refer the attached Circular.
Source: Directorate General of Foreign Trade
