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The mandate of the
Department of Commerce is regulation, development
and promotion of India’s international trade and
commerce through formulation of appropriate
international trade & commercial policy and
implementation of the various provisions thereof.
The basic role of the Department is to facilitate
the creation of an enabling environment and
infrastructure for accelerated growth of
international trade. The Department formulates,
implements and monitors the Foreign Trade Policy
(FTP) which provides the basic framework of policy
and strategy to be followed for promoting exports
and trade. The Trade Policy is periodically reviewed
to incorporate changes necessary to take care of
emerging economic scenarios both in the domestic and
international economy. Besides, the Department is
also entrusted with responsibilities relating to
multilateral and bilateral commercial relations,
Special Economic Zones, state trading, export
promotion and trade facilitation, and development
and regulation of certain export oriented industries
and commodities.
The Department is
headed by a Secretary who is assisted by an
Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, three
Additional Secretaries, thirteen Joint Secretaries
and Joint Secretary level officers and a number of
other senior officers. Keeping in view the large
increase in workload in matters related to the World
Trade Organization (WTO), Regional Trade Agreements
(RTAs), Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Special
Economic Zones (SEZs), Joint Study Groups (JSGs)
etc, two posts each of Joint Secretaries and
Directors were created in the Department during
2008-09.
The Department is
functionally organized into the following eight
Divisions:
1. Administration
and General Division
2. Finance Division
3. Economic Division
4. Trade Policy Division
5. Foreign Trade Territorial Divisions
6. State Trading & Infrastructure Division
7. Supply Division
8. Plantation Division. |
The various
offices/ organizations under the administrative
control of the Department are: (A) three Attached
Offices, (B) eleven Subordinate Offices, (C) ten
Autonomous Bodies, (D) five Public Sector
Undertakings, (E) Advisory Bodies, (F) fourteen
Export Promotion Councils and (G) other
Organizations.
.....Annual Report 2010-2011
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