[To be Published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-I (Section-I]

Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Vanijya Bhawan

Public Notice No. 22/2025
Dated: 09^th September 2025

Subject: Amendments in Para 4.53 of the Handbook of Procedures, 2023.

S.O. (E): In exercise of powers conferred under Paragraph 1.03 and 2.04 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2023, as amended from time to time, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby inserts an additional para as Para 4.53 (e) of the Handbook of Procedures 2023 for the purpose of ease of doing business by providing the correction facility in the online system:

4.53 (e) "An application for such amendments in unutilized and un-transferred DFIAs, which are system-related and corrective in nature, shall be filed in ANF 4G. Any such amendment would require approval of Head of Office."

Effect of the Public Notice: Certain amendments are allowed to DFIAs, for ease of doing business. Few illustrative examples are given below:

a) Correction in Unit of Measurement

b) Correction in ITC HS code of import item

c) Correction in value of the import item

(Ajay Bhadoo)
Director General of Foreign Trade &
Addl. Secretary to the Government of India
E-mail: dgft@nic.in

(Issued from File No. 01/94/180/068/AM25/PC-4)