Registration as Processor or Manufacturer of VFC Tobacco or Exporter of Tobacco or Exporter of Tobacco Products or Packer or Auctioneer or Dealer

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The Board invites applications for Registration or renewal of Registration as Processor or Manufacturer of Virginia Tobacco or Exporter of Tobacco or Exporter of Tobacco Products or Packer or Auctioneer or Dealer in Tobacco every year. The registration is granted for a calender year and the same is required to be renewed every year.

The following documents are required to be submitted for obtaining registration.

1. Application (Form-13) duly filled in and signed along with Registration fee by way of Demand Draft drawn in favour of Tobacco Board, Guntur payable at Guntur.
2. Bank Certificate on the Bank Letter head (format enclosed with Form-13).
3. Copy of the Partnership deed/Memorandum of articles of association
4. Procurement order / packing order obtained either from the Manufacturer / Exporter. (In case of registration as Dealer and Packer)
5. Copy of Exporter Order / L.C.
6. Import & Export Code No. ( incase of Registration as Exporter).
7. Particulars of Godowns/Warehouses (including branches).
   • Location - address in full with phone No.
   • Whether own or leased
   • In case of leased, furnish full address of the owner, and a copy of lease agreement on Rs.20 non-judicial stamp paper attested by authorities.
   • Space of each godown in square feet.
   • Map indicating boundaries or each godown.
8. Grading Centers -
   • Particulars & Location of Grading centers.
   • Furnish the attested copy of North light grading hall plan.
   • If grading is proposed to be under taken in commercial grading centers - please list out name of such companies proprietor /partner of such companies with full address and particulars.
   • Furnish list of growers with their registration numbers endorsed by the Auction Superintendents, in case the applicant intends to undertake grading of tobacco of growers or names of companies to whom he wants to undertake grading along with a copy of such contract for grading of tobacco.
9. Submit a copy of license obtained from the local authorities for grading of tobacco.
10. Particulars of Redrying/Threshing plants owned or taken on lease.
11. Location & Capacity of Redyring / Threshing Plant.
12. Total Business turnover during the last 3 financial years.
13. Name of other banks with address, where additional operating accounting are maintained, if any, by the company.
14. List of associated companies / sister concerns already registered with the Tobacco Board with their Board's registration numbers.

Application of registration shall be made so as to reach "The SECRETARY, TOBACCO BOARD, GUNTUR-522004" before 1st November of the year preceeding the calender year for which the registration is applied for. Late applications will attract late fee.

The Board considers registration to the following categories and the initial registration fee payable by fresh applicants is shown against each category.

1. Processor of Virginia Tobacco                - Rs.4,000-00
2. Manufacturer of Virginia Tobacco           - Rs.2,000-00
3. Exporter of Tobacco                            - Rs.1,000-00
4. Exporter of Tobacco Products               - Rs.1,000-00
5. Packer of Tobacco                              - Rs.500-00
6. Dealer in Tobacco                               - Rs.500-00
7. Commercial Graders of Virginia Tobacco   - Rs.250-00
(to be filed in the prescribed application Form-19)

Separate registration is required for each category for undertaking the above said operations.
Registration granted is valid till the end of December of a given year.

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Details of Registration of Traders, Manufacturers for the year 2007 as on 31.12.2006