REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTS FOR EXPORT OF BASMATI RICE

Agricultural and Processed Food Products
Export Development Authority
(Ministry of Commerce, Government of India)
April 1, 2010

TRADE NOTICE

REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTS FOR EXPORT OF BASMATI RICE
INCLUDING PUSA BASMATI 1121 (DEHUSKED BROWN, SEMIMILLED,
MILLED BOTH IN EITHER PARBOILED OR RAW CONDITION)

Vide Notification No 5 /2009-2014 dated September 07, 2009,
issued by Director General of Foreign Trade, Govt. of India, New Delhi
(DGFT) as amended vide Notification No 21/2009-2014 dated December
14, 2009 the export of Basmati Rice is allowed subject to the following
conditions:

1. Grain of rice to be exported shall be more than 7 mm of length
and ratio of length to breadth of the grain shall be more than 3.6;
2. Exports to Russian Federation permitted subject to preshipment
QUality certification issued by Sri Ram Institute for
Industrial Research or any other agency as may be notified
from time to time (Refer addendum placed at the end).
3. Export permitted only if the minimum FOB price is US$ 900
per ton or Rs.41,400/- per ton .
In case any foreign commission is paid at the time of exports or
subsequently then MEP shall be higher than US $ 900 per ton,
to the extent of foreign commission paid/payable and MEP of
US $ 900 per ton shall be maintained, exclusive of the foreign
commission.
4. Export of Basmati Rice will be restricted through the following six ports only :

(i) Kandla
(ii) Kakinada
(iii) Kolkata
(iv) JNPT, Mumbai .
(v) Mundra, and
(vi) Pipavav

5. All other provisions of the Notification no. 93 (RE-2007)/2004-09
dated 1st April, 2008 shall remain unchanged, and shall continue to apply.
6. Export allowed subject to registration of contracts with APEDA, New Delhi,prior to shipment
APEDA has, therefore, evolved the following procedure for the Registration of the Contracts and issuance of Registration-cum-Allocation Certificate(RCAC).PROCEDURE Application for Registration of Contracts for
export of Basmati Rice will have to be filed by the exporters on line at APEDA website
viz.www.apeda.com
The applications will be received in the office of the Agricultural and Processed Food
Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), 3rd Floor, NCUI Building, 3 Siri
Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg
(Opp.Asiad Village), New Delhi – 110016 or one of its regional offices. (Detailed addresses at Annexure I)
PROCESSING CHARGES
Processing charges of Rs. 25 per MT of the  contracted quantity shall be paid by the applicants. This amount shall be paid by Demand Draft/pay Order drawn in favour of APEDA. All applications for registration of
contracts should be accompanied by Demand Draft/Pay Order of requisite amount .

REGISTRATION
The applications shall be scrutinized in the office of APEDA and a Registration-Cum-Allocation Certificate (RCAC) shall be issued to the applicants for quantity contracted.

DESPATCH
DETAILS
While registering a new contract online exporters are required to provide details of
actual shipments made against RCACs issued w.e.f. April 1, 2010. RCACs in
original with copies of shipping documents are required to be submitted after
completion of dispatches against each RCAC

VALIDITY The RCAC shall be valid for such period as may be specified in the LC/Contract.
SELF CERTIFICATION
It would be mandatory for the exporters to furnish, along with their application a self
Certified certificate certifying that the product sought to be registered and exported
meets the specification mentioned above and
is of Indian origin.

AMENDMENT 1. RCAC once issued will not be amended in respect of the particulars of the buyer and
FOB price.
2. The validity of an RCAC will be extended, only once, for a maximum period of 45 days.
3. No amendment will be made in the RCACs, validity of which has already expired.
Asit Tripathy
Chairman

ADDENDUM
Exports to Russian Federation Permitted subject to pre-shipment quality certification issued by one of the following laboratories:

1. Shriram Institute for Industrial Research, New Delhi
2. Shriram Institute for Industrial Research, Bangalore
3. Insecticide Residue testing Laboratory, Pune,
4. Geochem Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
5. Reliable Analytical Laboratories, Mumbai
6. Delhi Test House, New Delhi
7. Arbro Pharmaceuticals Ltd., New Delhi
8. Vimta Labs, Hyderabad

September 16, 2009
DGFT had issued a Notification No 5/2009 –2014 dated 7th September 2009 for export of Basmati Rice at an MEP of US $ 900 per ton or Rs 41,400/- per ton FOB. There was an additional clause which is as under:

Export of Basmati Rice, as above shall be subject to the additional condition that foreign commission upto 12.5% is to be allowed for computation of MEP and any discount/commission in excess of 12.5% will not be allowed for calculation of MEP (and FOB price will have to be higher to that extent)

We had sought clarification on commission but DGFT vide their letter dated 16th September, 2009 have asked APEDA to maintain the Commission clause as it is.
Placed in the file is the Trade Notice which may kindly be approved for issue

Navneesh Sharma
DGM
Advisor (Cereals)