This Notification has been Superseded vide Notification No. 45/2023 Dated 23.11.2023

(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
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi

Notification No.42/2023
New Delhi, Dated: 28th October, 2023

Subject: - Imposition of Minimum Export Price on export of Onions.

S.O. (E) In exercise of powers conferred by Section 3 read with section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No. 22 of 1992), as amended, read with Para 1.02 and 2.01 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2023, the Central Government hereby amends the Export Policy of Onions under S.No.51 of Chapter 07 of Schedule 2 of the ITC (HS) Export Policy, as under:

S.No Tariff item HS Code Unit Item description Export Policy Policy condition
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

Subject to a Minimum Export Price (MEP) of US $ 800 F.O.B. per Metric Ton (MT), till 31st December, 2023.”

2. The Notification will come into effect from 29th October, 2023.

3. The following consignments of onions will be allowed to be exported without MEP:

i. Where onions consignment has been handed over to the Customs before this Notification and is registered in their system / where onions consignment has entered the Customs station for exportation before this Notification and is registered in the electronic systems of the concerned Custodian of the Customs Station with verifiable evidence of date and time stamping of these commodities having entered the Customs Station prior to the issuance of this Notification. The period of export shall be upto 30th November, 2023.

ii. Export duty has been paid before the issuance of this Notification. Such export duty is non- refundable.

4. Effect of this Notification:

Export of onions is ‘Free’. Minimum Export Price (MEP) of US $ 800 F.O.B per Metric Ton (MT) is imposed till 31st December, 2023.

(Santosh Kumar Sarangi)
Director General of Foreign Trade
Ex-Officio Additional Secretary, Government of India
E-mail: dgft@nic.in

(Issued from File No.01/91/171/50/Misc/AM21/e-26586)