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Effect of this Notification: The Status Holder Certificate is being electronically generated based on export data available
in DGCI&S database with no requirement by the exporter to file any kind of application in most cases. This will further the
ease of doing business by doing away with the application process & file examination and use of existing data elements
available within the Government for export certification.
Along with the above Public Notice DGFT has issued a Trade Notice No. 28/2023-24 DT 09.10.2023 (reproduced below):

DGFT Trade Notice No. 28/2023-24 Dated: 9th October, 2023
Subject : Automatic System based issue of Status Holder Certificate (e-SHC) with no requirement of filing any application
by the exporter- reg.

In furtherance of the e-Governance initiatives being taken by DGFT, a new IT module to recognize and certify the export
performance of individual companies has been developed. Henceforth, the Status Holder Certificate (SHC) will' be electronically
generated based on export data available in DGCI&S database. The individual exporters will be divided into the five Status
categories based on available merchandise export figures from EDI, non EDI Ports and SEZ ports as per the eligibility criterion
in Foreign Trade Policy 2023. As a result there will be no requirement by the exporter to file any kind of application and the
e-SHC, for a particular status category will be generated automatically by the IT system. This will eliminate the earlier
process of submission of an online application with supporting export performance certificate from a Chartered Accountant
and will also do away with the file examination required at the DGFT Regional Offices and use existing data elements
available within the Government for export certification.

2. The e-SHC will be made available to the exporting entity in their registered email and the customer dashboard @
DGFT portal (https://www.dgft.gov.in/CP/), after necessary IT iterations, by 15 th of August each year. The data set used for
the Status categorization will be the- merchandise export performance of the preceding 3 financial years or the preceding
2 financial years (in case of gems and jewelry sector) plus the 3 month export data from April to June of the current financial
year.

3. i) As the export figures pertaining to services exports, deemed exports and double weightage exports (as admissible under
para 1.27 of FTP 2023) are not being compiled by DGCI&S, there will be a few cases where this facility of automatic e-SHC
cannot be extended. All such exporters who do not receive their e-SHCs within 48 hours of issue of this Trade Notice will need
to make an application, if not already made, for grant of Status Certificate as per the FTP 2023 provisions in the existing IT
module along with supporting CA certificate.
ii) Further, all already filed pending/in-process Status applications under FTP 2023 will be scrutinized by the IT system for
auto-issuance of Status Holder Certificate where the applied Status category is the same as identified by the system. Such
Files will be shown as 'closed' after auto-issue.
iii) Keeping in view that certain export data is not getting captured online as in i) above, there will be some cases where the
e-SHC of a exporting entity, which has been automatically generated, is of a lower Status category than which it is otherwise
eligible after adding the export performance of services export and/or deemed export. In such a scenario, for upgrading the
Status certificate, the IEC holder will need to move an amendment application at the DGFT portal as per para 1.08 of HBP
2023. On issue of a new SHC with a higher/upgraded Status category by the DGFT Regional Office, the earlier e-SHC
certificate will be automatically cancelled by the IT system.

iv) DGFT Regional Offices are requested to expedite processing such applications as in i) and iii) above and seek additional
documents from the exporting entities only in exceptional cases after permission from the Head of Office.

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