(To be Published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-II, Section - 3, Sub-Section ii)
Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Udyog Bhawan
 
Notification No 73 (RE – 2013)/2009-2014
New Delhi, Dated: 12 March, 2014

Subject:- Export Policy of Onions.

S.O. (E)      In exercise of powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No. 22 of 1992), as amended  read with Para 1.3 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendment, with immediate effect, in the Chapter 7 of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification of Export & Import Items relating to export of onion.

2.             In Chapter 7 of  Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification of Export & Import Items the column under the heading “Export Policy” in respect of Serial Number 51 and 52 relating to export of onion is amended to read as “Free” in place of “STE”.  Accordingly the Note 1 below the Table gets deleted.  The Table would now be as under:

Chapter 7

Edible Vegetables and Certain Roots and Tubers

Note 1  Reference to onions in this chapter includes onions fresh or chilled frozen, provisionally preserved or dried.
 

S.No.	Tariff Item HS Code	Unit	Item Description	Export Policy	Nature of Restriction
51	0703 10 10 0712 20 00	Kg	Onion (all varieties except Bangalore Rose onions and Krishnapuram onions) excluding cut, sliced or broken in powder form.	Free
52	0703 10 10 0712 20 00	Kg	Bangalore Rose onions and Krishnapuram onions  excluding  cut, sliced or broken in powder form.	Free
53	0712 20 00	Kg	Onions (of all varieties) in cut, sliced or broken in powder form	Free

 
Export licensing note of Chapter 7
 
Note 1: Deleted
 
3. Effect of this notification:

Export of onion has been made free.  Earlier export of onion at Sl. No. 51 & 52 was permitted through STEs.

 

(Anup K. Pujari)
Director General of Foreign Trade
E-mail: dgft@nic.in

 

(Issued from File No. 01/91/180/922/AM08/PC-III/Export Cell)