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DGFT Circular w.r.t. Mono cartons being treated as primary level packaging of export consignment of pharmaceuticals and drugs

To be published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-I, Section-I

Government of India

Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Department of Commerce

Directorate General of Foreign Trade

Public Notice No. 31 (RE-2013)/2009-2014

New Delhi, Dated the 17 October, 2013

Sub: Mono cartons to be treated as primary level packaging of export consignment of pharmaceuticals and drugs.

In exercise of the powers conferred under Paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-14, Director General of Foreign Trade amends the Public Notice No. 21 dated 10.01.2011 as under.

2. Sub-para (a) of Para 3 of Public Notice No. 21 dated 10.01.2011 is amended by adding a new sentence at the end of the existing para. The amended para would read as under:

3 a. Incorporation of 2D (GS 1 Data Matrix) barcodes on medicines at strip/vials/bottle level encoding unique product identification code (GTIN), Batch Number, Expiry Date and Serial Number of the Primary pack. Mono cartons containing stripes/vials/bottle shall be treated as part of primary level packaging

3. Effect of this Public Notice:

Mono cartons containing strips/vials/bottles shall be treated as Primary level packaging.

(Anup K.Pujari)

Director General of Foreign Trade

E-mail : dgft@nic.in

(Issued from F. No. 01/91/180/648/AM09/Export Cell)

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