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Consequent upon issuance of Notification No. 17/3/2018-EP (Agri. IV),
dated 27-4-2020 by Department of Commerce and in exercise of the powers con-
ferred under Paragraph 2.04 of the Handbook of Procedures (2015-20) as amend-
ed, Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes the following amendment(s)
in Chapter 7(A) of “Handbook of Procedures”, with immediate effect :
(1) Department of Commerce’s Notification No. 17/3/2018-EP (Agri IV),
dated 27-4-2020 is added in Appendix-7(A)A.
(2) In para 7A.03(f), the following shall be inserted after the first sen-
tence :
“However, for the fresh applications made on or after 28th April,
2020, in case of shipment by air, claims should be made in the multi-
ple of Kilograms, ignoring any fraction thereof. Applications submit-
ted before 28th April, 2020 cannot be modified from per ton basis to
per kilogram basis.”
(3) Point (xi) of Instructions/Guidelines at ANF7(A)A should be amend-
ed to read as follows :
“Assistance for products exported by air would be based on per kilo-
gram freight charges on net weight of the export cargo, calculated on
the full kilogram basis, ignoring any fraction thereof.”
(4) Column (15) of para 6(b) of PART B of ANF 7(A)A and Column (15)
of para 6(b) of Annexure(A) to ANF7(A)A are deleted.
(5) Point (ix) of para 2 (Declaration/Undertakings) of PART B of
ANF7(A)A and Point (xii) of para 3 of Annexure(A) to ANF 7(A)A
should be amended to read as follows :
“The claim is made only for Full Container Loads (FCLs) Twenty-foot
Equivalent Unit (TEU) containers or forty feet containers equivalent
of two TEUs in case of shipment by sea and in the multiple of kilo-
grams (ignoring any fraction thereof) in case of shipment by air.”
Effect of the Public Notice : Assistance for products exported by air
would be based on per kilogram basis instead of per ton. Annexure-3 to the Noti-
fication No. 17/3/2018-EP (Agri. IV), dated 27th February, 2019 has been re-
placed indicating the differential rate of assistance on per kilogram basis for the
products exported by air.
Enclosure :
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE
(Department of Commerce)
New Delhi, the 27th April. 2020
No. 17/3/2018-EP (Agri. IV). —- The Central Government had intro-
duced a Scheme titled Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) for Specified
Agriculture Products vide Notification No. 17/3/2018-EP (Agri.IV), dated 27-2-
2019. The Scheme was further amended vide Notification No. 17/3/2018-EP
(Agri. IV), dated 6-6-2019. It has been decided to further amend the Scheme, as
indicated below :
2. Clause 6 (g) shall be substituted with the following :

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