N 22/2018

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, New Delhi Notification No:27/2015-2020 New Delhi, thep July, 2018

Subject: Amendment in Para 2.47 and para 3.05 of Chapter-3 of FTP 2015-2020.

S.O.(E): In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 read with Para 1.02 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-2020, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments in the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 with immediate effect:

|2.||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Paraofthe|ofthe|||Current para||Amended Para||
||FTP|2015-||||||
||20|||||||
||2.47|||2.47|Export<br>through<br>Courier ||2.47 Export through Courier Service/Post||
|||||Service/Post||||
|||||||Exports through a registered courier service||
|||||Exports through a registered||is permitted as per Notification issued|by|
|||||courier service is permitted as||DoR. However, exportability of such items||
|||||per|Notification<br>issued<br>by|shall be regulated in accordance with FTP/||
|||||DoR.|However,<br>exportability|ITC (HS), 2017. The value limit for such||
|||||of|such<br>items<br>shall<br>be|exports through<br>courier service and<br>Post||
|||||regulated<br>in accordance with||shall be Rs 5,00,000 perconsignment.||
|||||FTP/|ITC (HS),.2017.|||
||3.05|||3.05 Export of goods through |<br>courier or foreign post offices |||3.05 Entitlement under MEIS for Export of<br>goods<br>through<br>courier<br>or<br>foreign<br>post||
|||||using e-Commerce||offices||
|||||i.|Exports of goods through|Exports<br>of goods<br>through<br>courier|or|
||||||courier<br>or<br>foreign<br>post|foreign<br>post<br>office,<br>as<br>notified|in|
||||||office using ecommerce,|Appendix<br>3C,<br>of FOB<br>value<br>upto|Rs|
||||||as notified in Appendix|5,00,000 per consignment shall be entitled||
||||||3C, of FOB value upto|for rewards under MEIS. If the value|of|
||||||Rs.<br>25000<br>per<br>consignment<br>shall<br>be|exports,<br>is more than Rs 5,00,000 per<br>consignment then MEIS reward would be||
||||||entitled<br>for<br>rewards|calculated on the basis of FOB Value|of|
||||||under MEIS.|Rs 5,00,000 only.||
|||||ii.|If the value of exports|||
||||||using<br>e-commerce|||
||||||platform is more than Rs|||
||||||25000<br>per<br>consignment|||
||||||then MEIS reward would|||
||||||belimitedtoFOBvalue|||

of Rs.25000 only. iii. Such goods can be exported in manual mode through Foreign — Post Offices at New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. iv. Export of such goods under Courier Regulations shall be allowed manually on pilot basis through Airports at Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai as per appropriate amendments in regulations to be made by Department of Revenue. Department of Revenue shall fast track the implementation of EDI mode at courier terminals.

Effect of this Notification: The value limit for exports through Courier service/ Post has been placed at Rs 5,00,000 and the eligibility criteria for entitlement under MEIS for courier/ post exports have been increased to Rs 5,00,000 per consignment from the earlier Rs 25,000 per consignment. The limitation on the port of exports for courier exports for the purpose of incentivisation under MEIS has been done away.

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

[Issued from File No. 01/61/180/16/AM17/PC3]