4.35 — Port of Registration

• (a) Advance Authorisation shall be issued for purpose of import and export through one of sea ports or airports or ICDs or LCS specified below. Authorisation holder shall register authorisation at the port specified in authorisation and thereafter all imports against said authorisation shall be made only through that port, unless the authorisation holder obtains permission from customs authority concerned to import through any other specified port. However, exports may be made through any of the specified ports.

Sea Ports:

Bedi (including Rozi-Jamnagar), Chennai, Dahej, Dharamtar, Dhamra, Dighi, Ennore (Tamil Nadu), Gopalpur, Haldia, Hazira(Surat), Jamnagar, Kakinada, Kandla, Kattupalli Sea Port (Tamil Nadu), Kochi, Kolkata, Krishnapatnam, Mangalore, Marmagoa, Muldwarka, Mumbai, Mundhra, Nagapattinam, NhavaSheva, Okha, Paradeep, Pipavav, Porbander, Sikka, Surat (Magdalla), Tuticorin, Vadinar, Vishakhapatnam.

Air-ports:

Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Calicut Airport (Kerala), Chennai, Coimbatore Air Cargo Complex, Dabolim (Goa), Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow (Amausi), Mumbai, Nagpur, Rajasansi (Amritsar), Srinagar, Trivandrum, Varanasi, Vishakhapatnam.

ICDs:

Agra, Ahmedabad, Anaparthy, Arakkonam (Tamil Nadu), Bangalore, Babarpur, Bhadohi, Bhatinda, Bhilwara, Bhiwadi, Bhusawal, Chettipalayam (Tamil Nadu), Chheharata (Amritsar), Coimbatore, Dadri, Delhi, Dighi (Pune), Dappar, Dera Bassi, Dhannad Rau(District Indore), Daulatabad, (Wanjarwadi and Maliwada), Durgapur (Export Promotion Industrial Park), Faridabad, Garhi Harsaru, Guntur, Guwahati (Amingaon), Hyderabad, Irugur Village (Tamil Nadu), Jaipur, Jallandhar, Jamshedpur, Jodhpur, Kalinganagar and Tumb Village (Taluka Umbergaon, District Valsad) Kanpur,Karur, Kheda ( Pithampur, District Dhar), Kota, Kundli, Loni (District Ghaziabad), Ludhiana, Madurai, Mallanpur, Mandideep (District Raisen), Merripalem, Guntur District (AP), Miraj, Moradabad, Nagpur, Nasik, Pimpri (Pune), Pitampur (Indore), Patli (Gurgaon), Pondicherry, Raipur, Rewari, Rudrapur (Nainital), Salem, Singanalur, Surajpur, Surat, Talegoan (District Pune),

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Thudiyalur (Tamil Nadu), Tirupur, Todiarpet (TNPM), Tuticorin, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Veerapandi (Tamil Nadu), Waluj (Aurangabad), Hosur (Tamil Nadu) and Nattakkam (Kottayam Taluk and District)

LCS:

Agartala, Amritsar Rail Cargo, Atari, Chengrabanda, Dawki, Ghojadanga, Hilly, Jogbani, Mahadipur, Nautanva (Sonauli), Nepalganj Road, Petrapole, Ranaghat, Raxaul, Singhabad, Sutarkhandi.

SEZ:

As notified by Central Government any SEZ can be a specified port for import and export.

• (b) Commissioner of Customs may permit imports and exports from any other seaport/airport/ICD or LCS.

• (c) For imports from Airport / Seaport / ICD / LCS other than port of registration, a TRA shall be issued by the customs authority at the port of registration to customs authority at port of import. However, this requirement of TRA shall not be required if the port of registration and port(s) of imports are EDI enabled and the authorisation holder has registered its authorisation.

• (d) For procurement from SEZs, where no TRA is issued by customs, RA may issue a "Certificate of supplies from SEZ", containing details as given in Para 4.30 (e) for the requested item, after making the import item "Invalid for direct imports". The "Certificate of supplies from SEZ" shall be marked in quadruplicate with a copy each to the authorisation holder, SEZ supplier unit, designated officer at SEZ, and the relevant port customs authorities. The above certificate shall be issued as an online amendment to the authorisation and has to be transmitted after verifying usage of issued authorisation in case it is already registered with customs at the time of application for the certificate. The application is to be made to the concerned RA from where authorisation is issued in the manner as prescribed under Para 4.30(c) and Para 4.34 of this Handbook.

• 4.36 Facility of Clubbing of Authorisations

to be made to the concerned RA from where authorisation is issued in the manner as prescribed under Para 4.30(c) and Para 4.34 of this Handbook.

• 4.36 Facility of Clubbing of Authorisations

  • (i) No clubbing of Authorisations issued on or before 31st March, 2009 shall be allowed.

  • (ii) Request for clubbing shall be made in ANF-4C to the concerned RA who has issued the Authorisations.

  • (iii) Facility of clubbing of Advance Authorisations shall be available only for

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redemption / regularisation of such Authorisations and no further import or export shall be allowed.

• (iv) Facility of clubbing shall also be available for Advance Authorisations for Annual Requirement issued during Foreign Trade Policy period 2009-14, 2015-20, and 2023 wherever exports and imports have taken place as per Standard Input Output Norms (SION) notified.

• (v) Authorisations under which similar duty exemption has been availed shall only be allowed to be clubbed. Such Authorisations may pertain to different financial years.

Norms (SION) notified.

• (v) Authorisations under which similar duty exemption has been availed shall only be allowed to be clubbed. Such Authorisations may pertain to different financial years.

• (vi) Only such authorisations shall be clubbed which have been issued within 24 months from the date of issue of earliest authorisation that is sought to be clubbed, whether such authorisations are valid or not. This is further subject to condition that upon clubbing only imports made within 30 months from the date of issue of earliest authorisation shall be considered. Any imports made beyond 30 months of earliest authorisation shall be regularized under Para 4.49 of the HBP. This is further subject to condition that upon clubbing only exports made within 48 months from the date of issue of earliest authorisation shall be considered. Any exports made beyond 48 months of earliest authorisation shall not be acceptable for clubbing.[iv]

• (vii) Exports made during initial or extended EO period of individual authorisations (after payment of composition fee as per provisions of Para 4.40 of HBP) shall be clubbed.

• (viii) Upon clubbing, if shortfall in value or quantity is noticed, the same shall be regularized under the provisions of Para 4.49 of HBP.

• (ix) Clubbing of Authorisations issued with different EO periods shall also be allowed.

• (x) Inputs which are common in all Authorisations shall be clubbed and duty free inputs shall be accounted for as per SION/Ad-Hoc Norms fixed by NC. In other words all inputs covered in all Authorisations need not be same.

on in all Authorisations shall be clubbed and duty free inputs shall be accounted for as per SION/Ad-Hoc Norms fixed by NC. In other words all inputs covered in all Authorisations need not be same.

• (xi) Minimum value addition as prescribed in FTP and Procedures for the export product will be required to be maintained on clubbing.

• (xii) After clubbing, Authorisations shall for all purposes, be deemed to be one Authorisation. The value addition would be calculated on the basis of total CIF and total FOB arrived at after clubbing the Authorisations.

• (xiii) All cases clubbed, as per earlier provisions would not be reopened.

• (xiv) No clubbing shall be permitted in respect of Authorisations where misrepresentation / fraud have come to the notice of RA. Further, no clubbing of Authorisations, where EODC/redemption letter has already been issued or

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adjudication orders have already been passed by RA/Customs Authority, shall be permitted.

• (xv) Additional provisions for clubbing of Authorisations covered under Appendix-30A (issued under FTP 2009-14) / Appendix-4J (issued under FTP 2015-20 and FTP 2023) and Authorisations issued with Export Obligation Period less than 18 months:

  • (a) Export obligation period of clubbed Authorisations shall be reckoned from the date of earliest import in any of the Authorisations proposed to be clubbed.

ion Period less than 18 months:

• (a) Export obligation period of clubbed Authorisations shall be reckoned from the date of earliest import in any of the Authorisations proposed to be clubbed.

• (b) Clubbing of such Authorisations shall be allowed provided all exports are completed within initial/extended Export Obligation period reckoned from date of earliest import in any of the Authorisations proposed to be clubbed.