Export – personal baggage – Now Government servants can carry their pickle or namkeen, but don't share it
As per para 2.31 of the Foreign Trade Policy,
Bonafide personal baggage may be exported either along with passenger or, if unaccompanied, within one year before or after passenger's departure from India. However, items mentioned as restricted in ITC (HS) shall require an Authorisation.
Now the DGFT has added that “Government of India officials proceeding abroad on official postings shall, however, be permitted to carry along with their personal baggage, food items (free, restricted or prohibited) strictly for their personal consumption.”
What happens if they share the pickle with a foreign friend? Are they required to give a certificate that the food items have been strictly and totally consumed by them and not shared with any one else, Indian or foreign?
NOTIFICATION NO. dated the 12th November, 2007