N 45/2023

(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 Directorate General of Foreign Trade Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi NotificationNo. 45 /2023 New Delhi, Dated: 23' November, 2023

Subject: - Imposition of Minimum Export Price on export of Onions.

==> picture [505 x 140] intentionally omitted <==

----- Start of picture text -----<br> S.0. (E) In supersession of Notification No.42/2023 dated 28/10/2023 [S.O. 4719(E)] and in exercise<br>of powers conferred by Section 3 read with section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development &<br>Regulation) Act, 1992 (No. 22 of 1992), as amended, read with Para 1.02 and 2.01 of the Foreign Trade<br>Policy, 2023, the Central Government hereby amends the Export Policy of Onions in Chapter 07 of<br>Schedule 2 of the ITC (HS) Export Policy, as under:<br>Tariffitem |Unit] Item Export re - Policy condition = <br>HSCode | _ | description [Policy | _ —_ — ee<br>| 0703 1019 | KG (Onions: | Free [Subject to a Minimum Export Price (MEP) of US $ 800<br>| ee | _ | : IF.O.B. per Metric Ton (MT), till 31 December, 2023.” |<br>----- End of picture text -----<br>

2. The Notification will come into immediate effect.

3. The following consignments of onions will be allowed to be exported without MEP:

• i. Where onions consignment has been handed over to the Customs before 29" October, 2023 (the date from which the Notification No.42/2023 dated 28/10/2023 [S.O. 4719(E)] came into effect) and is registered in their system / where onions 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 29" October, 2023 (the date from which the Notification No.42/2023 dated 28/10/2023 [S.O. 4719(E)] came into effect). The period of export shall be upto 30 November, 2023.

• ii. Export duty has been paid before the issuance of this Notification. Such export duty is non - refundable.

4. Effect of this Notification:

Export of onions is ‘Free’. Minimum Export Price (MEP) of US $ 800 F.O.B per Metric Ton (MT) is imposed till 31st December, 2023. Notification No.42/2023 dated 28/10/2023 [S.O. 4719(E)] is superseded. Roxx+ Lr 5 (Santosh Kumar Sarangi) Director General of Foreign Trade Ex-Officio Additional Secretary, Government of India E-mail: dgft@nic.in

(Issued from File No.01/91/171/50/Misc/AM2 1/e-26586)