Monitoring of NFE deferred for EOU/EPZ/EHTP/STP/SEZ units, treating 2001-2002 as a blank year under export policy.
The Director General of Foreign Trade, relying on Paragraph 4.11 of the Export and Import Policy 1997-2002, notifies that 2001-2002 shall be treated as a blank year and that monitoring of Net Foreign Exchange (NFE) for EOU, EPZ, EHTP, STP and SEZ units is deferred for the period 1 April 2001 to 31 March 2002 as a public interest administrative measure.

Amendments to DEPB rates update export benefit entitlements and revise agency addresses and certification listings.
Amendment fixes DEPB rates and value caps for specified Engineering, Chemicals, Plastics and Textiles exports in Appendix 28A, and updates administrative records: the Moradabad Joint DGFT address and jurisdiction in Appendix 27, corrected Spices Board regional office addresses in Appendix 31, the SGS India Private Limited address in Appendix 32A, and adds a Chamber of Commerce to Appendix 51B as an authorised issuer of non preferential Certificates of Origin for Tamil Nadu.

Agri Export Zone designation notifies new crop-specific zones and revises district coverage for export promotion.
Notification designates new Agri Export Zones and amends district coverage in Appendix 59 under the Export and Import Policy 1997-2002. New zones: Cut Flowers in Tamil Nadu (Dharmapuri) and Grape and Grapewine in Maharashtra (Nasik, Sangli, Pune, Sholapur, Satara, Ahmednagar). Amendments reassign Pineapple in West Bengal to Darjeeling, Uttar Dinajpur, Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri, and Lychees in Uttranchal to Udhamsingh Nagar, Nainital and Dehradun.

Fixation of input-output norms: DGFT updates SION entries and adds product-specific import allowances across sectors.
The Director General of Foreign Trade amends the Handbook of Procedures, Vol. II, by substituting, correcting and adding Standard Input Output Norms (SION). The notice inserts new SION entries across Chemicals, Electronics, Engineering, Textile and Miscellaneous groups, specifies export items with corresponding permitted import inputs and quantities (including alternative inputs and net to net or value based allowances), corrects descriptions and technical specifications, relocates at least one SION between groups, and attaches Annexures A-F for incorporation into the Handbook.

Re-fixation of rupee value for special currency basket updates valuation for USSR-era deferred payment contracts.
The Reserve Bank of India has revised the Indian Rupee valuation of the Special Currency Basket for use in calculating rupee equivalents under the Indo USSR deferred payments protocols; the Directorate General of Foreign Trade notifies that this revised rupee value applies to deferred payment contracts concluded under the protocols dated 30 April 1981 and 23 December 1985.

DEPB validity extension for embroidered silk items permits revalidation and acceptance of time-barred DEPB applications under procedure rules.
DEPB licences for embroidered silk items (including those mixed with non-silk Textile Products Group entries where DEPB was allowed only on non-silk items) shall have their validity extended for six months; licence holders must apply to the Regional Licensing Authority within 60 days with a request and a treasury receipt or demand draft for the prescribed fee. Regional Licensing Authorities may also accept previously time-barred applications for DEPB credit in respect of exported embroidered silk items, except where misrepresentation, fraud, or adjudicating orders exist.

Value Based Advance Licence regularisation: small shortfalls treated under existing policy, larger shortfalls converted to quantity based entitlement.
Value Based Advance Licence import entitlement is tied to declared value addition; failure to achieve declared value addition must be regularised under Policy Circular No.28(RE-2000)/2000-2001 where shortfall in value or quantity or both does not exceed fifteen percent of the total export obligation, and licences with shortfalls exceeding fifteen percent must be converted into Quantity Based Advance Licences.

Positive value addition applies to advance licences for deemed exports, with Appendix 39 held inapplicable to such transactions.
Advance Licences for deemed exports must meet the same positive value addition requirement as other Advance Licences; Appendix 39 of the Handbook of Procedures applies only to exports to Rupee Payment Areas and is not applicable to deemed exports, a position affirmed by the Policy Review Committee and earlier Policy Division guidance.

Import of cinematograph films allowed without licence, subject to exhibition certification and prohibition on pirated imports.
Importation of cinematograph films and other film formats is permitted without licence but importers must comply with applicable Indian distribution and exhibition laws, including obtaining the certificate of public exhibition under the Cinematograph Act, 1952; unauthorized or pirated films are prohibited; foreign reprints of Indian films require prior written permission from the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, which may waive or relax requirements in the public interest.

Input-output norms modification: Standard Input Output Norms amended, product descriptions revised and import items substituted under chemical products.
Exercising delegated powers under the Export and Import Policy, the Director General of Foreign Trade amends the Standard Input Output Norms for Chemical & Allied Products by deleting specified serial numbers, revising export product descriptions as set out in Annexure A, and substituting import items and allowable input quantities for listed norms as set out in Annexure B; the Public Notice directs reliance on those Annexures for the precise amended product nomenclature and input item schedules.

Tariff Rate Quota allocation: procedure, eligible entities, actual-user imports, application deadline and allocation by committee.
Procedure sets out allocation and import conditions under a Tariff Rate Quota for four specified commodities, listing eligible entities required to import on behalf of actual users, noting maize under the State Trading Regime with alternate import licence option, and prescribing application to the Exim Facilitation Committee at DGFT with fee and supporting documents; imports must be cleared by customs before the deadline and failure to import within the period results in two years' ineligibility for quota allocation.

SPS quota allocation for raw cane sugar requires prescribed certification endorsements and names a sole authorised exporter for EU refining.
Allocation of an SPS quota designates raw cane sugar for export to the European Union for refining and prescribes a specific endorsement referencing the application of the Regulation and the common sugar code for preferential certification. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade authorises the Indian Sugar Exim Corporation Ltd. as the sole agency permitted to export raw cane sugar under this quota to the EU, directing port and customs authorities to implement centralised export authorisation and certification requirements.

Preferential raw cane sugar tariff rate quota allocated for export to USA; Sugar Exim Corporation designated sole exporter, procedures unchanged.
Allocation of 8500 MT of raw sugar from the 2001-2002 freesale quota is placed as a Preferential Raw Cane Sugar Tariff Rate Quota for export to the USA and vested at the disposal of the Indian Sugar Exim Corporation Ltd., which is designated the sole agency authorised to export that quantity; existing GSP certificate issuance and other specified certification and procedural requirements for preferential sugar exports to the USA remain applicable.

Import sample exemption: testing waived for textile samples subject to quantity, marking, free supply, and customs undertaking.
The testing requirement for imported textile and textile articles under the referenced notification is waived for consignments imported as samples, provided they are supplied free of cost, bear indelible marking "sample not for sale," are accompanied by an undertaking to customs that they will not be used for human consumption, and comply with specified per-consignment quantity limits.

Payment detail accuracy: on-line DEPB and Advance Licence entries must match submitted payment instruments or face return and refile.
Applicants using the on-line facility for DEPB and Advance Licences must unambiguously select either TR (Treasury Challan) or DD (Bankers Cheque/Demand Draft/Bank Receipt) and enter instrument number, date of issue, amount and issuing bank. If the hard-copy payment document submitted at pre-scrutiny does not tally with the on-line entry, the application will be returned and must be re-entered and resubmitted with a fresh hard copy showing correct payment details and a new file number for reconciliation.

Import restrictions on Indian-origin goods: imports under export-promotion schemes barred except as permitted by Customs notification.
Import of Indian-origin goods under export promotion schemes is not permissible except as allowed by Customs Notification 94/96; this prohibition aims to prevent misuse whereby export benefits are obtained and goods are re-imported duty free or at concessional duty, causing revenue loss. Exports of foreign-origin goods under these schemes are barred unless manufacturing, re-processing, or operations have been carried out in India. The restrictions do not apply where no benefits are claimed under the Exim Policy provisions referenced.

Extension of shipment deadline for coarse grain exports allows previously authorised consignments to be dispatched by the revised date.
The shipment/export deadline for authorised coarse grain and maize consignments (50,000 MTs as specified) previously permitted by earlier Public Notices is extended to 31.3.2002, under the authority of Paragraph 4.11 of the Export & Import Policy, 1997-2002, as amended; the extension applies to the quantities and terms set out in the cited Public Notices and accompanying schedule entries.

DEPB issuance allowed without final customs assessment for drug formulations provisionally held over value-cap clarification, subject to a filing deadline.
DEPB for drug formulations under Serial Nos.37 and 40 may be issued without final customs assessment where provisional assessment was solely for clarification on value caps; provisional assessments for any other reasons require final customs assessment. The concession follows a Revenue clarification that no value cap applied to those entries for exports prior to 2/11/2001 and is limited to applications submitted by the stated cut-off date.

DEPB entry reorientation for EDI compatibility updates coding conventions while preserving existing DEPB descriptions, rates and value caps.
The Public Notice mandates formatting and coding changes to DEPB entries in Appendix 28A to achieve EDI compatibility-such as converting certain uppercase letter markers and suffixed numerals to lowercase-while expressly preserving the underlying DEPB product descriptions, DEPB rates and associated value caps.

Non-production of logged DEEC Book: covered period corrected to 31.3.2002 under Policy Circular, clarifying Public Notice scope.
Correction to a previous policy circular: the date listed under "Cases covered under Public Notice No.5 dated 6.4.1999" is amended to the intended terminal date, thereby clarifying the coverage period for cases concerning non-production of the logged DEEC Book and aligning the Public Notice's temporal scope.