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15. EDI INITIATIVES
Foreign Trade Policy 2004-09- Annual Supplement 2005
a. DGFT shall strive to move towards an automated electronic environment for filing, retrieval and authentication of documents based on agreed protocols and message exchange with other community trade partners including Customs and Banks. Increased use of information technology for interacting with the trade through video conferencing, doing away with manual filing of documents by using digital signature and introducing a Special Purpose Vehicle for electronic license utilization and transfer mechanism is also envisaged. In addition, online web based information shall be made available for all Export and Import related policies and procedures on the DGFT website to enable the international trading community to access information from a single source.
b. A time frame of six months for complete EDI linkage between Customs and DGFT has been specified. After completion of this project the manual submission of shipping bills and related documents will be done away with and verification of licences shall be done online which shall considerably reduce transaction costs.
c. Facility of issuing Importer Exporter Code number (IEC) online is also being provided by linking the DGFT database with the Income Tax PAN database and use of digital signature technology. To add transparency in the system, other e-governance initiatives are also being planned to provide delivery of services to the user community without any human interface with the DGFT offices.
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