chapter viii wool & wollen textiles industry - Ministry of Textiles

ministry of textiles
QUALITY APPRAISAL & EXPORT
CERTIFICATION SERVICES:
Apart from carrying out quality inspection
in aid of export promotion, the Division also
issues the following special certificates to
the exporters as required under various
bilateral agreements / schemes.
Certificate of Origin under Generalised
System of Preferences (GSP):
Under the scheme of Generalised System
of Preferences (GSP), the Committee
issues GSP Certificates in Form-A for
textiles and textile articles to the exporters.
This certificate enables the importers to
claim duty preferences at the importing
end.
Certificate of Origin (Non-Preferential):
The Textiles Committee is also authorized
to issue Certificate of Origin (Non-
Preferential) from July 2005 to enable the
exporters to establish the country of origin
of the material exported.
Handloom Certificate:
Under various bilateral agreements with
developed countries, the Committee is
issuing Handloom & Cottage Industry
Certificates after conducting limited
inspection for ensuring handloom origin
of eligible textile items to enable the
importers to claim duty concessions.
Tariff Rate Quota Certificate (TRQC):
Endorsement on TRQC is done for
monitoring import quota for specific
textiles items for the following countries:
i) For readymade garments from Sri
Lanka under ISFTA
ii) For apparels from Bangladesh under
SAFTA
iii) For acrylic yarn from Nepal under
Indo-Nepal Trade Treaty.
Classification of Textiles:
Textiles Committee offers services
to the textile Industry & Trade on
classification of Textiles & Textile articles
under Harmonised System (H.S.)/
Harmonised Tariff Schedule of the
United States Annotated (HTSUSA)/
Combined Nomenclature (CN) Code.
This service is mostly availed by the
textile exporters, importers and Indian
Customs Authorities.
The quantum of work carried out by
this Division during 2010 - 2011 (up to
December 2010) and anticipated figures
from 1 st January 2011 to 31 st March 2011
are given at table 13.2.
The total revenue generated during the
year 2011-12 by the Export Promotion and
Quality Assurance Division is anticipated
to be at Rs.1487.15 crores.
Endorsement of GSP Certificates
contributes major portion of revenue
generated by the EP & QA Division (81%).
It is followed by assessment of Ginning &
Pressing factories(2%). Sale of various
blank certificates contributes for 5% of the
total revenue collection. While revenue
collection from issuance of certificate of
origin (non preferential) accounts for (4%)
and registration & renewal fee account for
3%. Quality inspection account for 1%,
other services viz. classification, TRQC
Endorsement under India-Sri Lanka/India-
Nepal FTA & India-Bangladesh etc. come
to 4% of total revenue generated during
2011-2012.
Scheme on Assessment & Rating of
Ginning & Pressing Factories:
Assessment Reports of 231 units were
duly evaluated by Assessment & Rating
Cell (ARC) and placed before the Technical
Rating Award Committee (TRAC) for
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