Amendment in Appendix 10M of Para 10.15 in the Handbook of Procedures of the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2023 to include more items under the purview of Global Authorization for Intra-Company Transfer (GAICT) of SCOMET items/software/technology - DGFT - 26/2024-2025

Government of India Ministry of Commerce Industry Department of Commerce Vanijya Bhawan Public Notice No. 26/2024-2025 New Delhi, 07-10-2024 Subject: Amendment in Appendix 10M of Para 10.15 in the Handbook of Procedures of the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2023 to include more items under the purview of Global Authorization for Intra-Company Transfer (GAICT) of SCOMET items/software/technology- reg S.O. (E) - In exercise of the powers conferred under Paragraph 1.03 read with Paragraph 2.04 of the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2023 , the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) hereby amends the Appendix 10M as referred to in Para 10.15 of the Handbook of Procedures (HBP) 2023 with immediate effect. Amended Appendix 10M - Annexed with the Public Notice 2. Effect of this Public Notice : With the amendment in Appendix 10M in the Handbook of Procedures 2023 , the coverage of items under GAICT Policy for export/re-export of items, including software and technology under SCOMET Category 8 has been expanded and new items have been brought under the liberalised policy to facilitate the Intra Company Transfer of SCOMET items to only the countries listed in Table 1 of Para 10.15 of HBP 2023 . (Santosh Kumar Sarangi) Director General of Foreign Trade Ex-officio Additional Secretary, Government of India E-mail: [email protected] Annexure to Appendix 10M Sl.no. SCOMET category/ Item No. Description (See updated SCOMET list for full text and details) (1) (2) (3) 1 8A102.a.1 'Composite structures or laminates, as follows: a. Made from any of the following: 1. An organic matrix and fibrous or filamentary materials specified by 8C110.C, 8C110.d or 2 8C101 Materials specially designed for absorbing electromagnetic radiation, or intrinsically conductive polymers, as follows: 3 8C112 Materials as follows... 4 8E101 Technology according to the General Technology Note for the development or production of equipment or materials specified by 8A102 to 8A105, 8A106.b, 8A107, 8B1 or 8C. 5 8A501 b. 5. Being digitally controlled radio receivers having all of the following.... 6 8A501 h. h. Counter Improvised Explosive Device (IED) equipment and related equipment, as follows..... 7 8D501.a. 'Software as follows: a. Software specially designed or modified for the development , production or use of equipment, functions or features, specified by 8A501; 8 8E501.a. Technology as follows: a. Technology according to the General Technology Note for the development , production or use excluding operation) of equipment, functions or features specified by 8A501 or software specified by 8D501.a. or 8D501.e... 9 8A601a. 1. b.1 a. 1. b. Systems or transmitting and receiving arrays, designed for object detection or location, having any of the following: 1. A transmitting frequency below 10 kHz; 10 8A601a. 2.a.1 8A601 a. 2.a.2 8A601 a. 2.a.3 8A601 a. 2.a.5 8A601 a. 2.a.6 1. Incorporating continuous flexible sensing elements; 2. Incorporating flexible assemblies of discrete sensing elements with either a diameter or length less than 20 mm and with a separation between elements of less than 20 mm; | 3. Having any of the following sensing elements 5. Designed to operate at depths exceeding 35 m with acceleration compensation; or| 6. Designed for operation at depths exceeding 1,000 m and having a 'hydrophone sensitivity' better than -230 dB below 4 kHz 11 8A601 a. 2. b. Towed acoustic hydrophone arrays... 12 8A601 a. 2. c. Processing equipment, specially designed for real time application with towed acoustic hydrophone arrays, having user-accessible programmability and time or frequency domain processing and correlation, including spectral analysis, digital filtering and beamforming using Fast Fourier or other transforms or processes; 13 8A601a. 2. e. Bottom or bay-cable hydrophone arrays having any of the following: 1. Incorporating hydrophones... or 2. Incorporating multiplexed hydrophone group signal modules... 14 8A601 a. 2. f. Processing equipment, specially designed for real time application with bottom or bay cable systems, having user-accessible programmability and time or frequency domain processing and correlation, including spectral analysis, digital filtering and beamforming using Fast Fourier or other transforms or processes. 15 8A602 a. 1.c c. Space-qualified solid-state detectors having a peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 1,200 nm but not exceeding 30,000 ran; 16 8A608 1.3 (Reserved) 17 8B608 Pulse radar cross-section measurement systems having transmit pulse widths of 100 ns or less, and specially designed components therefor..... 18 8D601 'Software specially designed for the development or production of equipment specified by 8A604, 8A605, 8A608 or 8B608. 19 8D603.a. 'Software as follows: 1. Software specially designed for acoustic beam forming for the real-time processing of acoustic data for passive reception using towed hydrophone arrays 20 8E601 'Technology according to the General Technology Note for the 'development of equipment, materials or software specified by 8A6, 8B6, 8C6 or 8D6 21 8E602 'Technology according to the General Technology Note for the 'production of equipment or materials specified by 8A6, 8B6 or 8C6. 22 8D703.a. 'Software specially designed or modified to improve the operational performance or reduce the navigational error of systems to the levels specified by 8A703, 8A704 or 8A708 23 8D703.b. 'Source code for hybrid integrated systems w 24 8A801.b. Manned, untethered submersible 25 8A801.C.1 Unmanned submersible vehicles having any of... 26 8A801.d. (Reserved) 27 8A802.o.3.b Active noise reduction or cancellation systems' or magnetic bearings, specially designed for power transmission systems; 28 8D801 'Software specially designed or modified for the development , 'production or use of equipment or materials, specified by 8A8, 8B8 or 8C8. 29 8E801 Technology according to the General Technology Note for the 'development or production of equipment or materials, specified by 8A8, 8B8 or 8C8 30 8A911 Ramjet, scramjet or 'combined cycle engines', and.... 31 8D901 Software , not specified in 8D903 or 8D904, specially designed or modified for the development of equipment or technology , specified by 8A9, 8B9 or 8E903. 32 8D902 Software , not specified in 8D903 or 8D904, specially designed or modified for the production of equipment specified by 8A9 or 8B9. 33 8E901 Technology according to the General Technology Note for the development of equipment or software , specified by 8A904 to 8A912, 8B901 to 8B910 or 8D901 to 8D905. 34 8E902 Technology according to the General Technology Note for the 'production of equipment specified by 8A904 to 8A911 or 8B901 to 8B910 35 8E903a.1. 'Technology required for the development or production of any of the following gas turbine engine components or systems: 1. Gas turbine blades, vanes or tip shrouds , made from directionally solidified (DS) or single crystal (SC) alloys and having (in the 001 Miller Index Direction) a stress-rupture life exceeding 400 hours at 1,273 K (1,000 C) at a stress of 200 MPa, based on the average property values; 36 8E903 a. 3. a Components that are any of the following: a. Manufactured from organic composite materials designed to operate above 588 K (315 C) [Issued from F.No. 01/91/180/18/AM17/EC(S) (Computer No. 2862]