Department of Commerce

ORGANISATIONAL SET-UP AND FUNCTIONS

The Department is headed by a Secretary who is assisted by two Special Secretaries, two Additional Secretaries, ten Joint Secretaries & Joint Secretary level officers and a number of other senior officers. Besides formulating and implementing the Foreign Trade Policy, the Department is also entrusted with responsibilities relating to multilateral and bilateral commercial relations, state trading, export promotion measures and development and regulation of certain export oriented industries and commodities. The subjects under the administrative control of the Department are at Appendix-I. The Department is functionally organized into eight Functional Divisions and its jurisdiction extends over (a) two Attached Offices, (b) eleven Subordinate Offices, (c) ten Autonomous Bodies, (d) several Export Promotion Councils (EPCs), (e) other Organizations, (f) Advisory Bodies and (g) Public Sector Undertakings.

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