DGFT & Foreign Trade Policy.

Scheme modelling — Advance Authorisation, DFIA, EPCG, RoDTEP, drawback

Advance Authorisation against DFIA against drawback against RoDTEP for the same product and trade pattern, in rupees, including the obligation each one takes on and the exit each one leaves.

Advance Authorisation and norms (SION / ad-hoc via Norms Committee)

SION where it exists; a self-declared or ad-hoc norms application to the Norms Committee where it does not — the workstream where technical justification decides whether the input is covered at all.

EPCG authorisation; the Customs bond behind it

The capital-goods list, duty-saved computation, the export obligation and the average-export baseline, and the installation certificate the Regional Authority will later ask for. On the Customs side: the bond and bank guarantee at the port under the exemption notification, and the BG exemptions available to status holders and others.

IEC, RCMC and Status Holder onboarding

A PAN-based IEC under FTP para 2.05, the right Export Promotion Council for RCMC, and Status Holder recognition where export performance earns it — done once, correctly, with the annual IEC updation calendared.

Policy mapping — restricted imports, SCOMET, monitoring registrations (PIMS / SIMS / CHIMS), QCO readiness

Your HS lines read against ITC(HS) Schedules 1 and 2 and the notifications that move items between free, restricted and prohibited; restricted-import and SCOMET authorisations (category, end-user documentation, the IMWG application); SIMS / PIMS / CHIMS / AIMS registrations obtained in the window before shipment; and BIS or other compulsory certification where a Quality Control Order applies.

Export-obligation dashboards by block

EO by authorisation and by block, shipping bills matched to authorisation numbers, and average-export maintenance for EPCG — so nothing lapses silently and extensions are sought before default, not after.

Installation certificates, amendments, revalidations

The certificate for imported capital goods within the period the HBP allows, and amendments, extensions and clubbing of authorisations as the business changes. Restricted-import and SCOMET authorisations run on validity, quantity and end-user conditions, with post-shipment reporting for SCOMET.

RoDTEP at declaration; redemption / EODC

Correct declaration and rate selection on the shipping bill, e-scrip generation and use, and the audit trail that supports the claim if it is later questioned. Export Obligation Discharge Certificates and redemption letters that actually end the exposure — followed by cancellation of the bond and BG with Customs, which is where many closures are left incomplete.

Policy watch by HS code — notifications and their deadlines

Changes filtered to your products and schemes, each with a what-it-means-and-what-to-do note — not a newsletter dump. Clients get the version for their own codes. Includes which anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard duties touch your imports, and their expiry dates.

Monitoring registrations shipment by shipment

SIMS, PIMS, CHIMS, AIMS and NFMIMS registrations timed to each consignment's window, with the values and quantities matching what will actually be declared.

Deficiency letters and FT(D&R) show-cause

The reply that closes the deficiency rather than opening an adjudication; where a notice under s.11 issues, limitation, quantification and the value basis of the penalty argued together.

Regularisation before the Committees (EPCG / Norms / PRC)

Regularisation of bona fide default under the HBP, EO extension applications, and representations before the EPCG Committee, Norms Committee and Policy Relaxation Committee — the DGFT-specific route that has no Customs equivalent. Case-specific relaxation from the Policy Relaxation Committee under para 2.58 where hardship or a policy anomaly justifies it.

The parallel Customs demand on the import bond

Duty forgone with interest demanded under the notification and the bond, answered on the s.28 ladder, and coordinated with the DGFT proceeding so the two do not contradict each other.

Appeals under s.15; Denied Entity List and IEC suspension

Appeal under s.15 of the FT(D&R) Act to the appellate authority within forty-five days, and review under s.16; suspension of an IEC or authorisation contested before it starts blocking shipments. Getting off the DEL and restoring an IEC — usually by curing the underlying non-response — before the next shipping bill is refused.

Trade-remedy proceedings before DGTR; policy representations

Questionnaire responses, injury and dumping-margin arguments, and hearings as an importer, user or domestic producer; sunset and mid-term reviews when a duty is up for renewal. Reasoned representations to DGFT and the ministries, and through the Board of Trade and export promotion councils, for clarification or relaxation.