This document outlines various export promotion organizations in India, including commodity boards and autonomous bodies. The key organizations discussed are the Coffee Board, Rubber Board, Tobacco Board, Spices Board, Marine Products Export Development Authority, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, Export Inspection Council, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, and Indian Institute of Packaging. These organizations work to regulate, develop and promote various industries and exports, ensuring quality standards and facilitating trade and business.

1. Export Promotion Organizations

2. • Export organizations are specialized agencies concerned
with export trade. These organizations explore foreign
markets and arrange to send goods to foreign buyers as
per the orders received collected.
• The department of commerce regulates, develop and
promotes India’s international trade and commerce
through formulation of appropriate international and
commercial policy and implementation of the various
provisions.
• The basic role of the department is to facilitate the
creation of an enabling environment and infrastructure for
accelerated growth of international trade.

3. Autonomous bodies/commodity board of export
promotion
• Coffee board
• Rubber board
• Tobacco board
• Spices board
• The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA)
• Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export
Development Authority (APEDA)
• Export Inspection Council
• Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)
• Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP)

4. Coffee Board
• The Coffee Board is a statutory organisation constituted
under section (4) of the coffee Act, 1942 and functions
under the administrative control of the ministry of
commerce and industry, Government of India.
• Board comprises 33 members including the chairperson,
who is the chief executive and functions from Bangalore.
• The board is mainly focussing its activities in the areas of
research, extension, development, quality upgradation,
economic & market intelligence, external and internal
promotion and labour welfare.

5. Rubber Board
• The Rubber Board was set up under section (4) of the
Rubber Act, 1947. The Chairperson is the Chief Executive
Officer of the Board and its headquarters is located at
Kottayam in Kerala.
• The Board is responsible for the development of the
rubber industry in the country by way of assisting and
encouraging scientific, technical and economic research;
providing training to growers in improved methods of
planting, cultivation, spraying, harvesting; improving
processing and marketing of rubber; and collecting
statistics from the owners of estates, dealers, processors
and rubber product manufacturers.

6. • It also the function of the board to secure better working
conditions and provide/improve amenities and incentives
to rubber plantation workers.
• The Rubber Production Department of the Board has 5
zonal offices, 44 regional offices, number of field stations
and regional nurseries.
• The Rubber Research Institute of India is located at
Kottayam and has ten research/breeding stations in
different parts of the country.

7. Tea Board
• The Tea Board is an autonomous body under the ministry
of commerce and industry, Government of India, set up as
a statutory body on 1st April, 1954 as per provision under
section (4) of the Tea Act, 1953.
• It is an apex body, which looks after the overall interests
of the tea industry. The board is headed by a chairperson
and there are other 30 members representing various
interests pertaining to tea industry.
• The board’s head office is situated in Kolkata and there
are 16 regional/sub-regional offices throughout India. It
has also three overseas offices at London.

8. • Tea Board’s functions and responsibilities include
measures for development of the tea industry, extending
financial and technical assistance to the tea growers,
manufacturers and producers, export promotion and
domestic generic promotion, regulating and controlling
different marketing activities including that of tea auctions,
facilitating R&D activities, market liaison, assistance to
labour welfare activities, maintenance of statistical data
etc.

9. Tobacco Board
• The Tobacco Board was constituted as a statutory body on 1st
January, 1976 under section (4) of the Tobacco Act, 1975.
• The board is headed by a chairperson with 25 other
members, and has its headquarters at Guntur, Andhra
Pradesh.
• The board is responsible for the development and regulation
of the tobacco industry.
• The primary functions of the board include regulating the
production and curing of Virginia Tobacco; keeping a constant
watch on the Virginia Tobacco market in India and abroad;
ensuring fair and remunerative prices to growers; maintaining
and improving existing markets and developing new markets
abroad by devising appropriate marketing strategies.

10. • The board is entrusted with the task of recommending to
the central government the minimum prices that may be
fixed: regulating tobacco marketing in India with due
regard to the interest of growers, manufacturers and
dealers; propagating information information useful to
growers, traders and manufacturers and purchasing
Virginia Tobacco from the growers when the same is
considered necessary for protecting the interests of
growers.

11. Spices Board
• The spices board was constituted as a statutory body on
26th February, 1987 under section (3) of the spices board
act, 1986.
• The board is headed by a chairperson with its head office
at Kochi and is responsible for the development of
Cardamom industry and promoting the export of all the 52
spices listed in the schedule of the Spices Board Act,
1986.
• The primary functions of the board include production
development of small and large cardamom; development
promotion and regulation of export of spices
• Board is responsible for implementing programmes for

12. • The activities of the board include issue of certificate of
registration as exporter of spices; undertaking
programmes and projects for promotion of export of
spices like setting up of spices parks, support of
infrastructure improvement in spices processing,
assisting and encouraging studies and research on
medicinal properties of spices, development of new
products, improvement of processing, grading and
packaging of spices: striving towards stabilization of
prices of spices for export and controlling and upgrading
quality for export

13. The Marine Products Export Development Authority
• The Marine Products Export Development Authority was
set up as a statutory body in 1972 under an act of
parliament.
• The authority, with its headquarters at Kochi and field
offices in all the maritime States of India.
• The authority is responsible for development of the
marine industry with special focus on marine exports.
• It has trade promotion offices in Tokyo and New York.

14. Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export
Development Authority (APEDA)
• The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development
Authority was established in 1986 as a statutory body under an act of
parliament.
• APEDA is entrusted with monitoring of export of 14 agricultural and
processed food product groups listed in the schedule to the APEDA
Act.
• APEDA has been engaged in the development of markets besides
upgradation of infrastructure and quality to promote the export of agro
products.
• APEDA provides financial assistance to the registered exporters under
its schemes for market development, infrastructure development,
quality development, R&D and transport assistance.

15. Export Inspection Council (EIC)
• The Export Inspection Council was set up as a statutory body
on 1st January, 1964 under section 3 of the Export (Quality
Control and Inspection) Act, 1963 to ensure sound development
of export trade of India through qualtiy control and inspection
and for matters connected therewith.
• The council is an advisory body to the central government, with
its office located at New Delhi and is headed by a chairperson.
The executive head of the EIC is the Director of Inspection &
Quality by Control who is responsible for the enforcement of
quality control and compulsory pre-shipment inspection of
various commodities meant for exportand notified by the
Government under the Export (Quality Control and Inspection)
Act, 1963.

16. • The council is assisted in its functions by the Export
Inspection Agencies (EIAs), which are field organizations
located at Chennai, Delhi, Kochi, Kolkata and Mumbai
and have state of art and accredited laboratories with the
required logistic support for quality certification activities.
These agencies have a network of 35 sub-offices and
laboratories located at different ports or major industrial
centres to back up the pre-shipment inspection and
certification activities.

17. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)
• The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was set up by
the Ministry of Commerc & Industry, Government of India
in 1964 with the objective of stengthening the country's
external trade sector through development of human
resources; generating, analyzing and disseminating trade
data; conducting research and providing consultancy
services.
• The institute has been pioneer in imparting training in
foreign trade management in the country and undertaking
research and consultancy in various areas of international
business.

18. • The institute was accorded witht the status of Deemed
University in May 2002 by the UGC and accredited in May 2005
as an “A” grade.
• The institute has emerged as a major centre of international
business education by aligning its teaching, research and
training capabilities with its core vision over the years and by
constantly striving to create academic excellence through its
four academic divisions, viz., Graduate Studies Division,
Research Division, Management Developmen Programmes
Division and International Collaboration and Capacity Division.
• Each division caters to competency development in a specific
area and contributes to the overall growth of the institute.

19. Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP)
• The Indian Institute go packaging (IIP), Mumbai was set up in
1966 by the packaging fraternity in association with the Ministry
of Commerce and Industry.
• The primary objective of the institute is to stimulate
consciouseness of good packaging, undertake and promote
R&D in packaging technology and package design, provide
short-term and long-term educational and training programme in
packaging technology.
• IIP also organizes seminarsand conferences in collaboration
with different ministries/departments of the government, and
industry associations.
• The institute has its regional branches in Delhi, Kolkata,
Chennai an Hyderabad.