An application must be made in the Aayaat Niryaat Form 2A (ANF 2A) format to the Regional Authority of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) in the region where the registered office of the company is situated.
The DGFT has provided online filing facility for obtaining IEC and other authorizations. Form ANF 2A requires basic details of the business and its proprietors, partners or directors (as applicable), bank account details and a bank certificate (where the business has an account) stating the period for which the business has an account with the bank.
The IEC issued is valid for all the branches or factories of the importer/exporter, as the case may be. Applications which are complete in all respects are normally disposed of within two days. For practical purposes, you can provide for a week’s time.
Once the above documents are complete and submitted to the DGFT, you should get your Import Export Code in India quite fast. It is normally delivered to your address within one to two weeks.