Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Udyog Bhawan
 
Notification No.  72 (RE-2010)/2009-2014
New Delhi, the 9^th September, 2011

 
Subject:- Removal of ban on export of wheat.
 

S.O.(E)          In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No.22 of 1992) read with Para 2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments in the ITC(HS) Classifications of Export and Import items, as amended from time to time.
 

2.         In supersession of Notification No. 33(RE-2007)/2004-2009, dated 08^th October, 2007, the following amendments are made with immediate effect against entry at Sl. No.46A of Chapter 10 of  Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) : -

 

Sl. No.	Tariff Item HS Code	Unit	Item Description	Export Policy	Nature of Restriction
46 A
	1001 10	Kg	Durum wheat :	Free	Export permitted through Custom EDI ports only.
	1001 10 90	Kg	Other	Free
	1001 90	Kg	Other:	Free
	1001 90 20	Kg	Other wheat	Free
	1001 90 39	Kg	Other	Free

 

Sub-heading Note : The term “durum wheat” means wheat of the Triticum durum species and the Hybrids derived from the inter – specific crossing of Triticum durum which have the same number (28) of chromosomes as that species.

 
3.         Effect of this notification:
           
Export of wheat has been made free.  Exports shall be only through Custom EDI ports.
 
 
 
 

(Anup K. Pujari)
Director General of Foreign Trade
E-mail: dgft@nic.in

 
 

 (Issued from F.No.01/91/180/773/AM 10/Export Cell)