Export Policy of Onions-increase in Minimum Export Price (MEP)

(To be Published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-II, Section - 3, Sub-Section ii) Government of India Ministry of Commerce & Industry Department of Commerce Udyog Bhawan

Notification No. 13 /2015-2020 New Delhi, Dated: 26 June, 2015

Subject:- Export Policy of Onions- increase in Minimum Export Price (MEP).

S.O. (E) In exercise of powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development &

Regulation) Act, 1992 (No. 22 of 1992), as amended, read with Para 1.02 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-20, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendment, with immediate effect, in Notification No. 2/2015-20 dated 07.04.2015 read with Notification No. 73 (RE- 2013)/2009-14 dated 12.03.2014 relating to export of onion.
2. The amended para 2 of Notification No. 2/2015-20 dated 07.04.2015 will now read as: “Export of onion for the item description at Serial Number 51 & 52 of Chapter 7 of Schedule 2 of ITC (HS) Classification of Export & Import Items shall be permitted subject to a Minimum Export Price (MEP) of US$ 425 F.O.B. per Metric Ton or as notified by DGFT from time-to-time”. 3. Effect of this notification:
Export of all varieties of onions as described above will be subject to a Minimum Export Price (MEP) of US$ 425 F.O.B. per MT.

(Pravir Kumar) Director General of Foreign Trade
E-mail: dgft[at]nic[dot]in

(Issued from File No. 01/91/180/922/AM08/PC-III/Export Cell)