The Department is headed by a Secretary who is assisted by two Special Secretaries, two Additional Secretaries, seven Joint Secretaries and three Joint Secretary level officers and a number of other senior officers. Beside formulating and implementing the foreign trade policy, the Department is also entrusted with responsibilities relating to multilateral and bilateral commercial relations, state trading, export promotion measures and development and regulation of certain export oriented industries and commodities.

Subjects which are under the administrative control of the Department of Commerce

The Department of Commerce consists of the following nine principal functional Divisions :

• Administrative and General Division;
• Finance Division;
• Economic Division;
• Trade Policy Division;
• Foreign Trade Territorial Division;
• Export Products Division;
• Export Industries Division;
• Export Services Division;
• Supply Division.