Opportunities and challenges of foreign trade open data for economic development by D.K. SINGH, ADDL. DIRECTOR GENERAL, Directorate General of Foreign Trade

1. Opportunities and challenges of foreign trade
open data for economic development
A presentation by
D.K. SINGH,
ADDL. DIRECTOR GENERAL
Directorate General of Foreign Trade

2. Generation of foreign trade data
• India’s exports and imports take place through
344 ports. 126 ports are electronic data
interchange (EDI) enabled and rest of 218 ports
are operating on manual system or non-EDI
mode.
• 88.61% transactions accounting for 65.19% of
value is captured through EDI mode.
• Data flows from CBEC central server (ICEGATE) in
form of daily trade return to DGCIS. SEZ data
flows through NSDL. Non-EDI data flows
manually to DGCIS.

3. Flow of Information to DGCI&S
Indian Customs
EDI Gateway
(ICEGATE)
Shipping
Bill/ Bill of
Entry
EDI: Electronic Data Interchange NSDL: National Securities Depository Limited

4. DISTRIBUTION(%) OF TRANSACTIONS BY TYPE 2013-14
4
88.61
10.34 1.04
Export
EDI Non-EDI Manual
92.98
6.65 0.37
Import
EDI Non-EDI Manual

5. Generation of foreign trade data
• DGCIS processes more than 150 lakhs records per
year.
• Processed data is categorised into commodities
based on ITC(HS) at 8 digit X country.
• Foreign trade dissemination portal (FDDP) has
been put in place to give direct access to the
provisional and finalised data sets on a query
mode.
• User Id and password has been given to all data
users including departments/ministries, EPCs.

6. Data set posted under NDSAP
Sl.No. Data set Views Downloads
1. India’s export classification, ITC(HS)
code and import policy
9954 3428
2. Commodity and country-wise imports
in India
9970 5092
3. Country-wise India’s exports by
principle commodities
4392 2365
4. India’s import data for principle
commodity
153 41
5. India’s export data for principle
commodity
109 25

7. Year-wise Distribution of Corrections Incorporated
Year
Total no. of
records
cases in which ITC(HS)
correction has been done
cases in which quantity
correction has been done
Number Percent Number Percent
Export
2013-14 8411542 644297 7.66 3334256 39.64
2012-13 7427253 748466 10.08 3304384 44.39
2011-12 6779121 680204 10.03 2838517 41.87
2010-11 5518180 776476 14.07 2478371 44.91
Import
2013-14 6915958 315257 4.56 2543295 36.77
2012-13 6557747 304698 4.65 2779166 42.38
2011-12 6233440 292362 4.69 2573663 41.29
2010-11 5328817 229905 4.31 2154615 40.43