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Attached and Subordinate Offices

	Directorate General of Foreign Trade
	Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS & D)
	Directorate General of Anti-Dumping & Allied Duties (DGAD)
	Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Kolkata
	Special Economic Zones
	Pay & Account Office (Supply, Commerce & Textiles)

(i) Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT)
(Udyog Bhavan, New Delhi – 110 107)

This Directorate, with headquarters at New Delhi, is headed by the Director General. Keeping in line with liberalization and globalization and the overall objective of increasing of exports, DGFT is assigned the role of a “facilitator”. It is responsible for implementing the Foreign Trade Policy with the main objective of promoting India’s exports. The DGFT also issues licenses to exporters and monitors their corresponding obligations through a network of 35 Regional Offices. The Regional Offices are located at the following places:-

All DGFT offices provide facilitation to exporters in regard to developments in the area of international trade, i.e. WTO agreements, Rules of Origin and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) requirements, Anti-Dumping issues, etc. to help the exporters to strategize their import and export decisions in an internationally dynamic environment.

Website: http://dgft.gov.in/

(ii) Directorate General of Supplies and Disposal (DGS&D)
(Jeevan Tara Building, Parliament Street, New Delhi - 110 001.)

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.  The functions of DGS&D are carried out through its functional wings and supporting service wings.  The functional wings are the Supply Wing and the Quality Assurance Wing.  The supporting service wings include Administration, Vigilance, Complaints and Public Relations, Planning and Co-ordination, Internal Work Study, Management Information Services, Litigation, etc.

The Supply Wing has commodity-wise Purchase Directorates such as Information Technology, Electrical Stores, Mechanical Engineering, Automobiles, Steel & Cement, Structural Engineering, Hardware, Workshop & Machine Tools, Wool & Leather, Paper & Paper Products, Oil & Chemicals. The handling of commodity-wise work facilitates maintenance of data bank on prices, vendors, specifications, market trends, etc.  The Quality Assurance Wing has 26 offices/sub-centres (including headquarters) spread all over the country.

Website: http://www.dgsnd.gov.in

(iii) Directorate General of Anti-Dumping & Allied Duties (DGAD)
(Udyog Bhavan, New Delhi – 110 107.)

The Directorate General of Anti-Dumping & Allied Duties was constituted in April, 1998 and is headed by the Designated Authority of the level of Additional Secretary to the Government of India who is assisted by a Joint Secretary, Adviser (Cost) and Additional Economic Adviser.  Besides, there are twelve Investigating and Costing Officers to conduct investigations.  The Directorate is responsible for carrying out investigations and to recommend, where required, under 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.

((B) Subordinate Offices

(i) Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S)
(No. 1, Council House Street, Kolkata – 700 001.)

The Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics (DGCI&S) is the premier organization of Govt. of India for collection, compilation and dissemination of India’s Trade Statistics and Commercial Information. This Directorate, with its office located at Kolkata, is headed by the Director General.  It is entrusted with the work of collecting, compiling and publishing/disseminating trade statistics and various types of commercial information required by the policy makers, researchers, importers, exporters, traders as well as overseas buyers.  DGCI&S collects the basic data from different customs formations in the form of DTR (Daily Trade Return) and then processes and compiles it using state-of-the-art technology.

The foreign trade data generated by the Directorate are disseminated through (i) Monthly Press Release brought out every month by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, (ii) Monthly Foreign Trade Statistics of India by Principal Commodities & Countries, (iii) Monthly Statistics of Foreign Trade of India (Import & Export), and (iv) Quarterly Statistics of Foreign Trade of India by Countries.  It also brings out an Assessment Report on India’s Foreign Trade by Air, every year.  As far as ancillary statistics is concerned, DGCI&S also compiles and publishes on regular basis the Inland Trade Statistics covering Inter-State Movements of Goods by Rail, River and Air, Statistics on India’s Customs and Excise Revenue Collections (according to the tariff heads), Shipping Statistics, Inland Coastal Trade Statistics and Selected Statistics of Foreign Trade of India.  

DGCI&S foreign data processing system is built on ORACLE database and SUN ULTRA E-450 system.  Its computer system is having networking facilities both in-house and with outside world.  There are two SUN M4000 database Servers and two SUN T2000 Application Servers with adequate storage and tape drives.  A dedicated 512 kbps leased line installed is being used to receive the DTR data online from computerized Customs houses.  Along with this, some direct Broadband lines are also available to support the lease line.

The Directorate brings out a number of publications on, inter alia, inland and coastal trade statistics, revenue statistics, shipping & air cargo statistics etc, which are utilized by the Government Departments as well as by trading communities and researchers.  India Trade Journal, a weekly publication, is the premier publication of DGCI&S.   The dynamic pages of the DGCI&S website www.dgciskol.nic.in are mainly for online data transmission and provide access to data under PIS (Priced Information Service System).

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

(ii) Offices of Development Commissioner of Special Economic Zones (SEZs)

The main objectives of the SEZ Scheme are generation of additional economic activity, promotion of exports of goods and services, promotion of investment from domestic and foreign sources, creation of employment opportunities along with the development of infrastructure facilities. All laws of India are applicable in SEZs unless specifically exempted as per the SEZ Act/ Rules.  Each Zone is headed by a Development Commissioner and is administered as per the SEZ Act, 2005 and SEZ Rules, 2006.  There are currently eight Development Commissioners of SEZs.  Units may be set up in the SEZ for manufacturing, trading or for service activity.  The units in the SEZ have to be net foreign exchange earners but they are not subjected to any predetermined value addition or minimum export performance requirements.  Sales in the Domestic Tariff Area from the SEZ units are treated as if the goods are being imported and are subject to payment of applicable customs duties.

 Website: http://sezindia.gov.in

(iii) Pay and Accounts Office (Supply)
 (Akbar Road Hutments, New Delhi.)

The payment and accounting functions of Supply Division, including those of DGS&D, are performed by the Chief Controller of Accounts (CCA) under the Departmentalized Accounting System. Payment to suppliers across the country is made through this organization.

(iv) Pay and Accounts Office (Commerce & Textiles)
(Udyog Bhavan, New Delhi - 110 107)

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

5/08/2010