The Foreign Trade Police 2023, focuses on emerging areas including e-commerce exports, developing districts as export hubs, among others. All the foreign trade policy benefits will be extended to e-commerce exports.
Necessary enablement of IT systems in Department of Commerce, Post, CBIC will be undertaken in six months. To streamline e-commerce export facilitation, guidelines are being formulated in consultation with other ministries to facilitate further exports under e-commerce.
Apart from this, designated hubs with warehousing facility will be created. The warehouses are designed to help e-commerce aggregators for easy stocking, customs clearance and returns processing. The processing facility will be allowed for last mile activities such as labelling, testing, repackaging etc. Special outreach program and training activities for small e-commerce exporters will also be undertaken
The value limit for exports through courier service has increased from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh per consignment. Government estimates suggest that the e-commerce exports expected to grow to $200-$300 Billion by 2030.