Export of Wheat Flour, Maida, Semolina, Wholemeal Atta and Resultant Atta shall be “Free” subject to Approval from IMC: DGFT [Read Notification]

The Director of General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has held that the export of wheat flour, maida, samolina wholemeal atta and resultant atta shall be free subject to recommendation of Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) constituted for allowing export of wheat.

As per the revised policy notified by the Government yesterday, the export of the above items shall be “Free”. However, export of all items is subject to recommendation of Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) constituted for allowing export of wheat.

The notification issued by the DGFT on Monday stated that “Export Policy of items [Wheat Flour (Atta), Maida, Samolina (Rava / Sirgi), Wholemeal atta and resultant atta] under HS Code 1101 remains ‘Free’, but export shall be subject to recommendation of InterMinisterial Committee (IMC) constituted for allowing export of wheat. The provisions as under Para 1.05 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-2020 regarding transitional arrangement shall not be applicable under this Notification. Necessary modalities with regard to quality of these items will be notified separately.”

The notification further stated that “the provisions as under Para 1.05 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-2020 regarding transitional arrangement shall not be applicable under this Notification. During the period from 8th August, 2022 till 14th August, 2022 the following consignments of Maida, Samolina (Rava / Sirgi), will be allowed to be exported: (i) where loading of above mentioned items on the ship has commenced before this Notification; and (ii) where above mentioned consignment has been handed over to the Customs before this Notification and is registered in their system.”

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