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Attached and Subordinate Offices

	Directorate General of Foreign Trade
	Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS & D)
	Office of the Chief Controller of Accounts (CCA)
	Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Kolkata
	Export Processing Zones/Special Economic Zones
	Directorate General of Anti Dumping and Allied duties
	Pay & Account Office

Directorate General of Foreign Trade

This Directorate is headed by the Director General of Foreign Trade and through its various offices provides facilitation to exporters in regard to developments in the area of international trade, i.e. WTO agreements, Rules of Origin and SPS requirements, Anti-Dumping issues, among others, to help the exporters to strategize their import and export decisions in an internationally dynamic environment. DGFT also issues authorisations to exporters/ importers and monitors their corresponding obligations through a network of 34 Regional Offices. These Regional Offices are located at the following places:-

2. Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS & D)

The DGS&D, with headquarters at New Delhi, is headed by the Director General. It functions as the executive arm of the Supply Division of the Department of Commerce for conclusion of Rate Contracts for common user items, procurement of stores, inspection of stores, shipment and clearance of imported stores/ cargo. It has three Regional Offices located at Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata.

Website: http://dgsnd.gov.in

3. Office of the Chief Controller of Accounts (CCA)

The payment and accounting functions of the Supply Division, including those of DGS&D are performed by the CCA under the Departmentalized Accounting System. The Organisation is one of the largest in the country in so far as payment of suppliers’ bills are concerned.

4. Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Kolkata

This Directorate is the primary Government agency for collection, compilation and publication of the foreign, inland and ancillary trade statistics and dissemination of various types of commercial information. The Directorate brings out a number of publications, particularly on trade statistics, which are utilised in framing economic policies, formulating trade agreements with foreign countries and monitoring these agreements. These publications are also used by the trading public and research scholars. It maintains a commercial library which is used by the exporters, importers, research scholars, Govt. and semi Govt. agencies, etc.

Website: http://www.dgciskol.nic.in/

5. Special Economic Zones

SEZs, set up as enclaves separated from domestic tariff areas by physical barriers, are intended to provide a duty free environment for export promotion. Each Zone is headed by a Development Commissioner. A scheme for setting up SEZs to promote export was announced on 31st March, 2000. Units may be set up in SEZ for manufacture, trading, re-conditioning, repair or for service activity. The units in the Zone have to be a net foreign exchange earner but they shall not be subjected to any predetermined value addition or minimum export performance requirements as in the case of EOUs. Sales in the Domestic Tariff Area by the SEZ units shall be subject to positive foreign exchange earning and on payment of full Custom Duty and import policy in force. The Government has since converted all the existing Export Processing Zones located at Kandla and Surat (Gujarat), Santa Cruz (Maharashtra), Cochin (Kerala), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Noida (Uttar Pradesh), Falta (West Bengal) and Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) into Special Economic Zones.

The Special Economic Zones are responsible for administration of the Export-Oriented units located within the zones.

6. Directorate General of Anti-Dumping & Allied Duties

The formal set up of DGAD came into existence in April 1998 in the Department of Commerce. It is  responsible for carrying out investigations and to recommend, where required, under the Customs tariff Act, the amount of anti-dumping duty/ countervailing duty on the identified articles which would be adequate to remove injury to the domestic industry. The Directorate General of Anti-Dumping & Allied Duties is headed by a Designated Authority of the level of Additional Secretary to the Government of India.

7. Pay and Accounts Office

The Pay and Accounts Office common to both the Department of Commerce and Ministry of Textiles, is responsible for the payment of claims, accounting of transactions and other related matters through the four Departmental Pay and Accounts Offices in Delhi, two in Mumbai, two in Kolkata and one in Chennai. These departmental Pay and Accounts offices are controlled by the Principal Accounts Office at Delhi with the Chief Controller of Accounts as the Head of the Department of the Accounts Wing.

20/01/09