1. EXPORT IMPORT POLICY /CONTORLS
• EXPORT/IMPORT cannot happen in Vaccum ,
parties are required for said transaction, and the
institutions /laws/and international relations
plays vital role: Policies can be said as control
mechanism also because, it draws RULES as well
as limitations for Trade activities across border.
There are lot many institutions/ policies related
with EXIM POLICY/CONTORL ………….

2. Institutional set up
– In India exim related institutions can be grouped in
to four categories
Policy and decision making
organizations
Autonomous bodies
Advisory bodies
Attached and subordinate offices

3. Policy and decision making
organizations
Ministry of commerce is nodal agency for
country's external trade which includes
the commercial relations with other
countries / also responsible for state
trading/ export promotion measures/
regulations etc…
.. The department of commerce formulates
the policies in the sphere of foreign
Trade ,especially the EXIM policy of the

4. Functional divisions of ‘ Dept.Of Com
• Trade policy division
• Export production division
• Export services division
• Economic division
• Administration and general division
• Foreign trade territorial division
• Export industries division
• Finance division

5. Trade policy division
It deals with the broad aspects of
country’s trade policy in relation to
various international bodies such as
GAAT, UNCTAD, UNESCAP, EU, NAFTA,
ASEAN, SAFTA, APEC, OPAC etc
This division also takes care about
International trade and commodity
agreements

6. Export products division
attending the general problems like
generation for surplus for exports and
development of markets abroad ….
…products such as Agri/ marine products/
chemicals/pharma /engg/
minerals/metals/ but the responsibilities
also lies with respective ministries such as
agri / textiles/ocean/ etc …

7. Export services division
• Export credit
• Market development assistance
• Quality control
• Pre-shipment inspection
• Guidance setting –up JV abroad
• ..also for IMPORT …

8. ECONOMIC DIVISON
Responsible for working out export
development strategies, export planning,
periodic appraisal and review of
Policies….
This division monitors works relating to
technical assistance ,management
services of exports, and overseas
investment by Indian companies ..

9. Foreign trade territorial division
• ..deals with development of trade with
different countries and regions of the world
• It handles the work connected with state
trading, barter deals, organization of trade
fairs, and commercial publicity ..
• It also liaison with Indian Trade Missions
abroad and attends the administrative
functions of the ministry …

10. Export industry division
• It deals with the those industries,
which are related with export
oriented business…. products
such as RMG/
HANDICRAFTS/JUTE/FIBRES/
WOOLENS etc
• EPZ s/EOUs/SEZ s …..

11. Autonomous bodies
• Commodity boards
• Export inspection councils
• Indian Institute of foreign trade
• Indian institute of packaging
• Indian diamond institute
• Export promotion councils
• Federation of Indian exporters organization

12. Autonomous bodies
• Indian trade promotion organization
• Indian council for arbitration
• Marine products export development
authority
• Agricultural and processed food products
development authority
• Export credit guarantee corporation of India
• MMTC, STC etc

13. • Commodity Boards
• There are five statutory Commodity Boards under the
Department of Commerce, Government of India. These Boards
are responsible for production, development and export of
tea, coffee, rubber, spices and tobacco.
• Coconut development Board is also an autonomous body
which functions under the Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of
India. Commodity Boards help their members in product
development, product innovation and technology up
gradation. They assist exporters with overseas marketing,
exchange trade delegations and ‘ provide information on
export-import policies.

14. Tea Board
• The present Tea Board set up under section 4 of
the Tea Act 1953, was constituted on 1st April
1954. It succeeded the Central Tea Board and the
Indian Tea Licensing Committee which
functioned respectively, under the Central Tea
Board Act, 1949 and the Indian Tea Control Act,
1938 that were repealed. The activities of the
two bodies had been confined largely to
regulation of tea cultivation and export of tea as
required by the International Tea Agreement
then in force, and to promotion of tea
consumption.

15. COFFEE BOARD
• The Coffee Board (Indian Coffee Market Expansion
Board till 1948) is the lineal successor of the Indian
Coffee Cess Committee, the First Statutory All Tndia
Organization of the Indian Coffee Industry
constituted by the Government of India, in response
to the unanimous request of all Coffee Interests for
an Organization and funds of their own for the
improvement of the industry. The Coffee Board is a
Statutory Body under the Coffee Act of 1942 (Act of
1942) having perpetual succession and a common
seal, with powers to acquire and hold property, to
contract and to sue and to be sued. Others ..can be
home work for MIB ians

16. Spices Board
The Spices Board was constituted as a Statutory Body on
26th February, 1987 under Section (3) of the Spices Board
Act, 1986. The Board is headed by a Chairman with its
head office at Kochi and is responsible for the
development of cardamom industry and promoting the
export of all the 52 Spices listed in the Spices Board Act,
1986. The primary functions of the Board include
increasing the production and productivity of small and
large cardamom; development, promotion and regulation
of export of spices; assisting and encouraging studies and
research for improvement of processing, grading and
packaging of spices; striving towards stabilization of prices
of spices for export and upgrading quality for export.

17. Tobacco Board
The Tobacco Board was constituted as a Statutory Body
on 1st January, 1976 under Section (4) of the Tobacco
Act, 1975. The Board is headed by a Chairman, with
headquarters at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, and is
responsible for the development of the tobacco
industry. The Board also has a Directorate of Auctions
at Bangalore. The primary functions of the Board
include regulating the production and curing of Virginia
Tobacco; keeping a constant watch on the Virginia
Tobacco market in India and abroad; ensuring fair and
remunerative prices to growers; maintaining and
improving existing markets and developing new
markets abroad by devising appropriate marketing
strategies.

18. Export Inspection councils
Export Inspection Council of India
(Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt.
of India)
New Delhi YMCA Building (3rd
Floor)
1, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi - 110 001
Tel: +91 - 11 - 23365540 / 23748188
Fax: +91 - 11 - 23748024
E-mail: eic@eicindia.org

19. Export Inspection Council of India (EIC),the
official certifying body of Govt. of India
provides services of inspection and
certification for quality and safety through
Export Inspection agencies located in Delhi,
Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Kochi with a
network of 41 sub-offices and also issues
Certificates of Origin.

20. The EIC is a statutory organization
functioning at New Delhi under the
Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of
India. It advises the Central
Government on measures to be
taken for sound development of
export trade of India through Quality
Control and Inspection.

21. • The Export Inspection Council was set up as a Statutory
Body on 1st January, 1964 under Section 3 of the
Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963 to
ensure sound development of export trade of India
through Quality Control and Inspection and for matters
connected therewith. The Council is an advisory body
to the Central Government, with its office located at
New Delhi and is headed by a Chairman. The Executive
Head of the EIC is the Director of Inspection & Quality
Control. The Council is assisted in its functions by the
Export Inspection Agencies (EIAs), which are field
organizations located at Chennai, Delhi, Kochi, Kolkata
and Mumbai and have state-of-art laboratories for
quality certification activities.

22. main functions
• Quality Control and Certification of products for exports, both
statutory and voluntary through various types of certification
such as consignment wise or a system approach. Products
covered include food items such as Fish & Fish Products, Dairy
Products, Poultry Meat Products, Honey and Meat and Meat
Products, Spices, Basmati Rice and Non food items such as
Engineering items, Chemicals, Footwear etc.
• Product Testing for certification
• Issue of Certificates of Health and Certificate of Authenticity
to exporters under various schemes for various products

23. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN
TRADE
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TRADE
IIFT Bhawan,
B-21, Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi-110 016.
Tel. 26965124, 26965051, 26966563
Fax: 26968314, 26966165

25. IIFT functions //
• The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade was registered in
May, 1963 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. The
Institute, with its head office at New Delhi and one
regional branch at Kolkata, is headed by a Director. The
Institute has been conferred “Deemed University” status
and is engaged in the following activities:-
• Running academic courses leading to issue of degrees in
International Business & Export Management;
• Training of personnel in international trade;
• Organizing research on issues in foreign trade, marketing
research, area surveys, commodity surveys, market
surveys; and
• Dissemination of information arising from its activities
relating to research and market studies.

26. Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP)
The Indian Institute of Packaging was registered in
May, 1966 under the Societies Registration Act,
1860. The Institute, with its office located at
Mumbai and branch offices at Delhi, Chennai,
Kolkata and Hyderabad, is headed by a Director.
The main function of the Institute is to undertake
research on raw materials for the packaging
industry, organize training programmes on
packaging technology and stimulate
consciousness of the need for good packaging.

27. The Marine Products Export
Development Authority (MPEDA)
The Marine Products Export Development
Authority was set up as a Statutory Body in 1972
under an Act of Parliament (No.13 of 1972). The
Authority, with its headquarters at Kochi and
field offices in all the Maritime States of India, is
headed by a Chairman/Chairperson. The
Authority is responsible for development of the
marine industry with special focus on marine
exports. Besides, it has Trade Promotion Offices
at Tokyo (Japan) and New York (USA).

28. Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export
Development Authority (APEDA)
• The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export
Development Authority was set up in 1986 as a
Statutory Body under an Act of Parliament of 1986. The
Authority, with its headquarters at New Delhi, is headed
by a Chairman. The Authority has five Regional Offices
at Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bangalore & Mumbai
and is entrusted with the task of promoting agricultural
exports, including the export of processed foods in value
added form. APEDA has also been entrusted with
monitoring of export of 14 agricultural and processed
food product groups listed in the Schedule to the APEDA
Act.

29. State Trading Corporation of India
Limited (STC)
• STC was set up on 18th May, 1956, primarily with a view
to undertake trade with East European Countries and to
supplement the efforts of private trade and industry in
developing exports from the country. The core strength of
STC lies in handling exports/ imports of bulk agro
commodities.
• STC has diversified into exports of steel raw materials,
gold jewellery and imports of bullion, hydrocarbons,
minerals, metals, fertilizers, petro-chemicals, etc.
Achieving record breaking performances year-after-year,
STC is today able to structure and execute trade deals of
any magnitude, as per the specific requirement of its
customers.

30. MMTC Limited
• The MMTC Limited (Minerals and Metals Trading
Corporation) created in 1963 as an individual
entity on separation from State Trading
Corporation of India Ltd. has grown to become
the largest trading Organization in India. In 1970,
MMTC took over imports of fertilizer raw
materials and finished fertilizers. Over the years
import and exports of various other items like
steel, diamonds, bullion, etc. were progressively
added to the portfolio of the company.

31. PEC Limited
• The PEC Ltd (Project and Equipment
Corporation of India) was carved out of the
STC in 1971-72 to take over the canalized
business of STC’s railway equipment division,
to diversify into turn-key projects especially
outside India and to aid & assist in promotion
of exports of Indian engineering equipment.
PEC became an independent company directly
owned by Government of India w.e.f.
27.03.1991.

32. Export Credit Guarantee Corporation
of India Ltd. (ECGC)
• The Corporation was established in 1957 as the
Export Risk Insurance Corporation of India Ltd. The
ECGC is the premier organization in the country,
which offers credit risk insurance cover to exporters,
banks, etc. The primary objective of the Corporation
is to promote the country’s exports by covering the
risk of export on credit.
• It provides (a) a range of insurance covers to Indian
exporters against the risk of non-realisation of export
proceeds due to commercial or political causes and
(b) different types of guarantees to banks and other
financial institutions to enable them to extend credit
facilities to exporters on liberal basis.

33. India Trade Promotion Organization
(ITPO)
India Trade Promotion Organization has been
formed by merging erstwhile Trade
Development Authority (TDA) with Trade Fair
Authority of India (TFAI) with effect from 1st
January 1992. India Trade Promotion
Organization is the premier trade promotion
agency of India and provides a broad spectrum
of services to trade and industry so as to
promote India’s exports.

34. Export Promotion Councils (EPCs)
• Chemexcil
• CAPEXIL
• Pharmexcil
• Cashew Export Promotion Council
• Council for Leather Exports
• Engineering Export Promotion Council,
• Gems & Jewellery Export Promotion Council
• Project Exports Promotion Council of India (PEPC)
• Plastics Export Promotion Council
• Shellac Export Promotion Council
• Sport Goods Export Promotion Council
• Export Promotion Council for EOUs & SEZ Units
• Indian Oil Seeds & Produce Exporters Association,
• Services Export Promotion Council

35. Advisory Bodies
Board of Trade (BOT) :
• The Board of Trade was set up on 5th May, 1989 with a view to provide
an effective mechanism to maintain continuous dialogue with trade
and industry in respect of major developments in the field of
International Trade. The Board was reconstituted on 16th July, 2009
under the Chairmanship of Commerce & Industry Minister.
• The Board, inter-alia advises the Government on policy measures
connected with the Foreign Trade Policy in order to achieve the
objectives of boosting India’s exports. The Board is required to meet at
least once every quarter and make recommendations to Government
on issues pertaining to its terms of reference. The Board has the power
to set up sub-committees and to co-opt experts to these and to make
recommendations on specific sectors and objectives.

36. Export Promotion Board (EPB)
The Export Promotion Board functions under the
Chairmanship of the Cabinet Secretary to provide
policy and infrastructural support through greater
coordination amongst concerned Ministries for
boosting exports. Secretaries of Department of
Commerce; Ministry of Finance; Department of
Revenue; Department of Industrial Policy &
Promotion; Ministry of Textiles; Department of
Agriculture & Cooperation; Ministry of Civil Aviation
and Ministry of Surface Transport represent their
Ministries in the Board.

37. Inter State Trade Council
• The Inter State Trade Council was set up on 24th June, 2005 with
a view to ensure a continuous dialogue with State Governments
and Union Territories which, inter-alia, advises the Government
on measures for providing a healthy environment for
international trade in the States with a view to boost India’s
exports.
• The Council is represented by Chief Ministers of the States or
State Cabinet Ministers nominated by Chief Ministers, Lt.
Governors or Administrators of the Union Territories or their
nominees, Secretaries of the Departments of Commerce,
Revenue, Industrial Policy & Promotion, Agriculture &
Cooperation, Shipping, Road Transport & Highways, Ministries of
External Affairs and Power and Chairman, Railway Board. It also
co-opts the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of ECGC, Managing
Director of EXIM Bank, Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India,
Chairman of APEDA, Chairman of MPEDA and Presidents of CII,
FICCI, FIEO, ASSOCHAM and Export Promotion Council for
EOUs/SEZs.

38. Federation of Indian Export
Organizations (FIEO)
The Federation of Indian Export Organizations is an
apex body of various export promotion
organizations and institutions with its major
regional offices at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and
Kolkata. It provides the content, direction and
thrust to India’s global export effort. It also
functions as a primary servicing agency to provide
integrated assistance to its members comprising
professional exporting firms holding recognition
status granted by the Government, consultancy
firms and service providers.

39. Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA)
The Indian Council of Arbitration, India’s premier Arbitral
Institution, is a Society registered under the Societies
Registration Act, 1860 operating on no profit basis, with its head
office in New Delhi and eight branches with a pan India network.
The organization originally established in 1965 promotes and
administers the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution
mechanisms in commercial disputes, thereby expediting dispute
resolution and encouraging greater domestic and international
commerce.
The main objectives of the Council are to promote the knowledge
and use of arbitration and provide arbitration facilities for
amicable and quick settlement of commercial disputes with a
view to maintaining the smooth flow of trade, particularly
export trade on a sustained and enduring basis.

40. Indian Diamond Institute (IDI)
With the objective of enhancing the quality, design
and global competitiveness of the Indian Jewellery,
the Indian Diamond Institute was established as a
Society in 1978 with its office located at Surat. The
Institute is sponsored by the Department of
Commerce and patronized by the Gems and
Jewellery Export Promotion Council. The Institute
conducts various diploma and other courses
related to diamond trade and industry. The
Institute also has certification services for
diamonds, coloured stones and gold jewellery…

41. Footwear Design & Development
Institute (FDDI)
Footwear Design and Development Institute was set up in
1986 as a Society registered under the Societies Act,
1860 for Infrastructure Development for the footwear
industry and Human Resource Development. The
Institute conducts wide range of long term and short
term programmes in the area of Retail Management,
Fashion, Footwear Design, Technology, Management,
Fashion Merchandising, Marketing, Creative Designing
& CAD/CAM, Leather Goods & Accessories Design etc.
FDDI established its new campus at Fursatganj, Rae
Bareli which commenced academic programmes from
September, 2008.

42. National Centre for Trade Information
(NCTI)
National Centre for Trade Information was set up in 1995
under the aegis of Ministry of Commerce & Industry with a
view to create an institutional mechanism for collection
and dissemination of trade data and improving
information services to the business community, especially
small and medium enterprises. NCTI is promoted by India
Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) and National
Informatics Centre (NIC). NCTI is the Operational Trade
Point in India under the Trade Efficiency Programme of
United Nations Conference on Trade & Development
(UNCTAD) and is also the recognized Focal Point of Trade
Analysis and Information System (TRAINS) of UNCTAD
Trade Point Development Centre (UNTPDC).

43. Price Stabilization Fund Trust
The Price Stabilization Fund Scheme (PSF) was
launched by Government of India in April 2003
against the backdrop of decline in international and
domestic prices of tea, coffee, rubber, and tobacco
causing distress to primary growers. The objective
of the Scheme is to safeguard the interests of the
growers of these commodities and provide financial
relief when prices fall below a specified level
without resorting to the practice of procurement
operations by the Government agencies. The
Scheme is being operationalized through the Price
Stabilization Fund Trust.

44. Major Schemes implemented by the Department
under the Plan & Non- Plan Schemes
• Marketing Development Assistance (MDA)
• Duty Drawback Scheme
• Assistance to States for Development of
 Export Infrastructure and Allied Activities (ASIDE)
• National Export Insurance Account (NEIA)
• Investment in ECGC
• Export Inspection Council (EIC)
• Market Access Initiative (MAI)
• Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)
• Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP)

45. • Centre for WTO Studies
• Indian Institute of Plantation Management (IIPM)
• Modernisation of DGFT
• Modernisation of DGCI&S
• Computerisation DGS&D
• APEDA
• MPEDA
• Schemes under Tea Board
• Schemes under Coffee Board
• Schemes under Rubber Board
• Schemes under Spices Board

46. National Export Insurance Account
(NEIA)
• The objective of NEIA is to promote project
exports from India, which may not take place
but for the support of a credit risk insurance
cover which the ECGC is not in a position to
provide because of its own underwriting
capacity. The objectives of NEIA were
expanded by the Government in December,
2008, in view of the Global Financial Crisis, to
provide for short term cover also.

47. Market Access Initiative (MAI)
Scheme
• The Market Access Initiative (MAI) Scheme is a
Plan Scheme formulated to act as a catalyst to
promote India’s exports on a sustained basis,
based upon ‘Focus Product’ and ‘Focus Market’
concept. The Scheme was revised after a
thorough review and extensive consultation with
all the stake holders in the year 2006 and the
revised Scheme was launched with effect from
January, 2007. The revised Scheme embodies
enhancement of scope of the Scheme, increase in
the number of eligible agencies and increase in
scale of assistance.