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DGFT and CBIC Notices, Explained the Way We Explain Them to Clients

Every document on this page is hosted here in full, not linked out to a government homepage that may 403 an automated reader or move without notice. Where a notice changes something a competing consultancy is still getting wrong, we say so and link the correction. This page exists because reading the actual notification, not a summary of a summary, is most of what separates a real answer from a guess in Indian trade compliance. We rebuild it every time a notice we track is amended, superseded or clarified.

How to use this page: each row below is one primary source document. The Category column tells you which of our guides it feeds into. The Rasp Take column is our own read, in plain exporter language, of what the notice actually changes for you. Click the document name to open our hosted copy, or click through to the full guide for the complete operational walkthrough.

Freshest first. DGFT Notification No. 27/2026-27, introducing a new Cross-border E-Commerce Export Framework, was issued on 5 August 2026, one week ago. We have not yet built a full guide around it. It is listed below with what the notice itself says. A detailed walkthrough is on our build queue.
NoticeDateCategoryRasp take
DGFT Notification No. 27/2026-27
Inventory-based Cross-border E-Commerce Export Framework
5 Aug 2026E-Commerce ExportsAmends the Foreign Trade Policy 2023 with immediate effect to introduce Exporter-on-Record and Seller-on-Record roles for inventory-based cross-border e-commerce exports. New territory, not yet covered on our blog. Talk to us before you register under this framework.
DGFT Notification No. 15/2026-27
RoDTEP Schedule realignment, Appendix 4R and 4RE
30 Apr 2026RoDTEP142 tariff lines added, 50 deleted, 2 descriptions changed, effective 1 May 2026, to align RoDTEP with the Finance Act (No. 3 of 2026) tariff changes. Leather, ayurvedic extract and steel tube codes are among those affected. Full cluster breakdown on our RoDTEP rates page.
DGFT Trade Notice No. 09/2026-27
Amendment to TRACE guidelines under EPM
1 Jul 2026TRACE / EPMReimbursement went from a flat rate to size-differentiated: up to 95 percent for Micro and Small enterprises, 80 percent for Medium, cap raised from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 50 lakh per IEC per year. Positive List expanded to 462 certifications. See our full certification list, searchable.
CBIC Circular No. 24/2025-Customs
Auto-approval of incentive bank account and IFSC registration
7 Oct 2025AD Code / Bank AccountOnce an incentive bank account and IFSC pairing is approved at one customs location, it auto approves at every other location under the same IEC. No more manual port officer review for repeat locations. Still flows to PFMS for validation. Most competing guides on this subject have not caught up to this change.
CBIC Instruction No. 25/2023-Customs
Standardising documentary and information requirements for AD Code registration
28 Jul 2023AD Code / Bank AccountFixed the exact fields your bank authorisation letter must carry and the same day before 2 PM, next working day otherwise, timeline. This is also the document that actually references DG Systems Advisory 10/2022, the real source of single point AD Code registration, a fact widely misattributed elsewhere online.
Public Notice No. 93/2020, JNCH Nhava Sheva
e-SANCHIT upload procedure for AD Code and IFSC
29 Jul 2020AD Code / Bank AccountA Nhava Sheva local notice on document upload and the Annexure-A bank letter format. Frequently and incorrectly cited elsewhere as the source of pan India single point registration. It is not. See our AD Code guide for the corrected chain.
ICEGATE AD Code Bank Account Registration AdvisoryCBIC SystemsAD Code / Bank AccountThe exact screen by screen sequence for adding a Foreign Remittance Account or a Refund/Incentive Account inside ICEGATE Bank Account Management.
ICEGATE Bank Account Management User ManualCBIC SystemsAD Code / Bank AccountThe full field list for both account types, including the Status at PFMS field most exporters never check, which is exactly where silent incentive credit failures hide.

Why we host the original documents

Most sites covering DGFT and CBIC updates either link to a government page that may block automated readers or eventually move, or they summarise a notice without letting you check the summary against the source. We do neither. Every document above is our own hosted copy of the primary text, checked page by page before it went up, so the citation on our guides is never more than one click from the actual notification.

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If a policy change directly affects a service we manage for you, we reach out before it hits your shipments. You do not need to monitor this page yourself. Have a specific compliance or policy question affecting your exports? Ask our team, we respond within 24 hours on working days.

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