Foreign Trade Policy

Retrospective DGFT Notifications Declared Invalid: Delhi High Court Protects Exporters’ Legal Certainty

2026-08-04

Introduction Foreign trade notifications routinely straddle the line between policy flexibility and legal certainty. Exporters plan shipments, price contracts and calculate margins around the incentive schemes announced by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), and any retrospective tinkering with those schemes whether to grant a benefit or to take one away has an outsized…

Retrospective DGFT Notifications Declared Invalid: Delhi High Court Protects Exporters’ Legal Certainty

Whether the existing Foreign Trade Policy of 2015 – 2020 has been extended for an additional period?

Whether there is any relaxation issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry for suppliers to mandatory submit the Bill of Export on supplies made in SEZ units?

Whether there is any amendment in the minimum registration time of Steel Import Monitoring System (SIMS) for importers?

What changes have been made to the Export Policy of Wheat and Meslin Flour by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT)?

Whether there is any amendment in the minimum registration time of the Non-Ferrous Metal Import Monitoring System (NFMIMS) for importers?

Whether the invoicing, payment and settlement of export/import from/to India is permitted to be carried out in Indian Rupees (INR)?

Whether the imports under Advance Authorisation, Export Promotion Capital Goods Scheme and Export Oriented Units Scheme are exempted from the levy of Integrated Goods and Services Tax and Compensation Cess?

Whether there is any relaxation issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs in the threshold limit for the receipt of foreign contributions from relatives?

What benefits are granted under the Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) signed by India and Australia on 02.04.2022?

What are the trade benefits granted under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) signed between India and UAE?

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