Standard Input-Output Norms updated: new SION corrections and product-group entries added to the Handbook of Procedures. The Director General of Foreign Trade has issued amendments to the Standard Input Output Norms under Paragraph 4.11 of the Export and Import Policy 1997-2002, effecting corrections in existing SION entries and adding new entries across Chemicals and Allied Products, Engineering Products, Food Products and Plastic Products. Annexure A lists textual amendments and substituted norms; Annexures B-E add new export-import input relationships and product-specific import conditions, including notes on finished-leather consumption and a prior-import condition for a food export entry.