Circular 35/2020

Government of India Ministry of commerce and Industry Department of Commerce Directorate General of Foreign Trade Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi Policy4 Division

Policy Circular No. 3 5 1 20 15-20 Dated : 23 April 2020 All Regional Authorities of DGFT All Exporters 1 Member of Trade

Subject: Procedural details pursuant to Notification No. 5712015-20 dated 31.03.2020 and

Public Notice 6712015-20 dated 31.03.2020- Extensions in Import Validity period and Export obligation period in Advance authorizations/DFIA Attention is invited to Notification No. 5712015-20 dated 31.03.2020 and Public Notice No. 6712015-20 dated 31.03.2020 through which extension in the import validity period and the export obligation neriod for existing Advance Authorizations (AAs)/DFIA expiring from February to Jul! has been granted. In this regard, the following procedural formalities may be followed by DGFT RAs and Trade: A) Automatic Extension of Import Validity period and EO period by 6 months for AAs under HBP Para 4.41(e) and Para 4.42(h) where no revalidation/EO ~eriod extension has been granted till date:

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  i I ! 1 In all such cases where the facility of first or second extension in the import validity period or the EO extension period has not been availed by the exporter earlier, the revised or the extended import validityIE0 period, as per the relaxations permitted would be updated in the ICEGATE/Customs System automatically based on a defined protocol between the DGFT- NIClCustoms in this regard.

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i 7 ii Once the bulk updation and transmission of authorisations have been done by NIC Division, NIC would send RA-wise list of such authorisations to individual RAs with an update script to be run on the local server (available in the Downloads section of the local server).

e by NIC Division, NIC would send RA-wise list of such authorisations to individual RAs with an update script to be run on the local server (available in the Downloads section of the local server). All RAs are required to run this script immediately so that any further extensionslre-validations on the authorizations would take into account this change in the local RA sever also. . t - i
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