Difficulty in closure of Advance Authorisation due to space constraints in the description column of the shipping bills

Government of India Ministry of Commerce & Industry Department of Commerce Directorate General of Foreign Trade Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi Trade Notice No. 32/2024-25 Dated: 28" February 2025

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To, :. Member of Trade & Industry a All Export Promotion Council & Commodity Boards 3. All Regional Authorities

Subject: Difficulty in closure of Advance Authorisation due to space constraints in the description column of the shipping bills-reg.

It has came to the notice of this Directorate that in the process of closure of AA through the online system, certain issues are being faced by exporters due to inability of the system to capture complete description of the export items as per the export invoice. Item description with more than 120 characters, may not completely reflected in Shipping Bills. In such cases, deficiencies are raised by RA for non compliance of Para 4.12 (iii) of FTP 2023.

2 Therefore, it is directed that wherever such difficulties are encountered, RAs may corroborate the complete description of the export item and decide such cases on the basisof self attested copies of GST system generated e- invoices.

a In such cases, the aforesaid documents may be uploaded along with all the other prescribed documents for Redemption/EODC of Advance Authorisations.

4. This is issued with the approval of the DGFT.

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(K.M. Hs Joint Director General of Foreign Trade Email id: km.harilal@nic.in 01123038709

[Issued from File No.: 01/94/1 80/047/AM25/PC-4]