In the month of November 2014, vide public Notice No. 76, Directorate General of Foreign Trade had made e-application for Import Export Code (“IEC”) mandatory from 1^st January 2015 onwards. However, owing to some reasons vide Public Notice No. 80; the same was kept in abeyance till further notified date.

Now, vide Public Notice No. 83, dated 30^th January 2015, the date of mandatory e-application for IEC has been notified i.e. 1^st February 2015.